Distraction Removal: Dust (Camera Raw and Lightroom Classic)

the dust removal works pretty well on smaller particles. It struggles with mixed cloud skies to see the dust spot also more faded larger particles aren’t recognized by LR. otherwise works great.

It been a long time since  this came out. Still waiting for this to work in the future with scanned inverted negatives (especially Tiff files) . Lots of people doing hybrid work scanning new or old negatives and prints into the computer and using LR and PS.

Doesn’t work for me. Says ‘no dust detected’. Well, my biological stupidity can find quite a few dust spots here

Dust removal tool does not activate all the time.   If fails to allow user to select the dust spots after selecting Apply.  Then, user is forced to use the remove option with AI.

"Dust removal doesn't always work correctly. It would be great to combine it with AI masks, for example, applying it only to the background."


   It deletes print in hmodel cloth

doesn’t work for me; totally useless; zero dust removed - changed size from 1-10 pixels make no difference. Sad because it would be very helpful tool.

Honestly, I don't understand the difference in viewing dust and spots on a totally white image versus on a black screen. Why does LrC dust removal turn a totally white page to totally black when the visualize slider is moved to the right and are all those white spots really dust spots? I don't believe it! When I view the same page normally with visualize disabled I can actually see the dark spots or dust if you will and there is in no way near that many! So when using visualize with slider all the way to right, illustrated in my previous post, are all the white areas just noise? As you know, sensors show noise in the absence of light.

Adobe needs to explain more and without a lot of techno bable how the feature works.

Add the ability to remove white dust from a dark background

I need instruction how to use the “visualize spots” function. Even with a newly cleaned sensor (cleaned by Precision Camera as part of my Sony Pro Imaging membership) when I move the slider all the way to right I see lots of white spots. However, with slider at 50% I don’t see anything. How is the “visualize spots” function used? Please see imbedded screenshots.

​@Rikk Flohr_Photography ,

Thanks for information. I am aware of the auto sensor cleaning function in the cameras. However, in my experience, I find the function doesn’t work most of the time and that typically an actual physical cleaning of the sensor is needed. I am very, very careful when I switch lenses, which isn’t often because I have multiple cameras with the same specifications to eliminate having to change lenses.

That said, as careful as I am when I do change lenses I find that occasionally spots get on the lens. I don’t know how that can possibly happen but it does. So, I utilize my Sony Pro Imaging Support membership to take advantage of the 3 free cleaning and checks per year. In the old days, pre-mirrorless, I would clean the sensors myself.

I do have a pertinent question about the LrC dust removal process. Do you know if image contest judges consider Ai dust removal to be acceptable?