P: Dust removal - also remove insects in the sky

Forum|Forum|17 hours ago
August 9, 2026
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In summer there is a lot of small insects in the air, which results in lots of small black dots in the sky.
Unfortunately Dust removal cannot detect it as a dust, so I have to remove them one by one with Remove tool, which is not comfortable.

It would be nice to improve this.

Or is there any trick I'm missing?

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

My point is that dust removal is designed to not remove spots that aren’t dust spots. If it did remove other spots (like birds), that would be reported as a bug.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Dust on the sensor is something that does not belong in the photo. Insects are things you may not want on your photo, but they are part of the scene you photographed. If dust removal would remove insects, then it would also remove small birds flying at a certain distance. You probably wouldn’t want that, so that would not be an improvement. Sometimes your photos still need old fashioned handwork.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

michaljanataAuthor

Inspiring

When I see what LR can do now, I don't see any reason, why it wouldn't do this. Little sharp black dots on sky might be very easy these hays. Also it could be size based customized, so you could exclude a bird.

Insects are for sure part of the scene, but bunch of small black dots are surely not wanted as part of the photo - same as many other stuff you are removing or retouching, but that would be probably for another philosophical discussion.

And small birds is flying in distance also doesn't need to look like a bird, but little black dots, which is rather distracting then wanted.

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