This post applies to Camera Raw and Lightroom Classic. Dust Removal is no longer in Early Access status and can be found in the Remove edit panel for Camera Raw & Lightroom Classic. Dust Removal helps with removing distracting spots on an image that may be caused by dust on a camera's sensor. Once enabled, your image will be scanned, and any detected dust spots will be automatically removed using Content-Aware Remove. For refinement, you can select one or multiple spots to delete or refresh. Batch removal is also supported; simply select the "Dust" checkbox under "Remove" in the copy settings dialog.Please note that scanned negatives are not in the scope of this feature at this time. Dust spots on scans tend to be located in the focal plane, with the negative and very sharp, while sensor dust is typically positioned out of the focal plane and therefore not in focus. Scanned negative dust typically appears as white spots on a darker background, whereas perceived sensor dust tends to appear as dark spots in lighter areas. We would love to hear your feedback on Dust Removal! Please give it a try and let us know what you think: How is it useful? How could it be more useful? What could we do to improve your experience? Lisa Ngo, Product Manager Also see this video by @brianmatiash where he demos the feature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwpUX4b6igY Posted by:

Rikk Flohr_Photography

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Distraction Removal: Dust (Camera Raw and Lightroom Classic)

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July 10, 2025
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This post applies to Camera Raw and Lightroom Classic.

Dust Removal is no longer in Early Access status and can be found in the Remove edit panel for Camera Raw & Lightroom Classic. Dust Removal helps with removing distracting spots on an image that may be caused by dust on a camera's sensor.

Once enabled, your image will be scanned, and any detected dust spots will be automatically removed using Content-Aware Remove. For refinement, you can select one or multiple spots to delete or refresh. Batch removal is also supported; simply select the "Dust" checkbox under "Remove" in the copy settings dialog.

Please note that scanned negatives are not in the scope of this feature at this time.

Dust spots on scans tend to be located in the focal plane, with the negative and very sharp, while sensor dust is typically positioned out of the focal plane and therefore not in focus.
Scanned negative dust typically appears as white spots on a darker background, whereas perceived sensor dust tends to appear as dark spots in lighter areas.

We would love to hear your feedback on Dust Removal! Please give it a try and let us know what you think:

How is it useful?
How could it be more useful?
What could we do to improve your experience?

Lisa Ngo, Product Manager

Also see this video by @brianmatiash where he demos the feature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwpUX4b6igY

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imix4u

Participating Frequently

Well, that’s completely useless. I thought it was supposed to be able to find stuff our eyes couldn’t see, but you’d think it would get the obvious stuff our eyes DO see! “No dust spots found.”

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guyrs

Participating Frequently

Did not remove ANY spots. tried several times w/all 3 tools.

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Petra33130178oohl

Participant

It removes about a 1/5 of obvious dust spots in my ICM photographs. There’s another 2/5 of obvious dust spots it misses. The rest I get when I zoom in.

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waltoncreative

Inspiring

The dust feature is great! BUT why nest it within Remove?

If you want to remove dust you have to open Remove, then click on the tiny triangle to open Distraction Removal, then another tiny triangle to finally get to Dust.

After doing the dust removal…

When you then want to retouch something you have to close the Distraction Removal panel again.

If you do this time and time again it gets really annoying!

Why not give Distraction removal its own panel?

Why not create key strokes for them all?

Here’s hoping someone there is listening.

john_jb74

Participant

I have tried this on 15 scanned positives (35mm slides) where this feature would be really useful. It is successfully removing about 50-60% of the dust, but not the rest. I would like to see:

A “sensitivity” slider to try to pick up the missing spots, perhaps optimising by eye against image damage (e.g. removing small stones that are not dust).
The visualise spots seems completely unusable.
Touching up for additional spots is a slow process and visually difficult due to the already circled dust being in white which only works on dark images - which is not where the trouble usually is.

Thanks - this was be fantastic to get right as I go through digitising 5000 positives.

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JamesGrayPh

Participating Frequently

The dust removal is not working at all on scanned slide. Many small specs in the sky. Clicking on each one works, but there are a jillian of them. It would take ages.

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Alice36182411d4vg

Participant

It did not remove dead pixels.

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HeronM

Participant

It barely worked for me when I tested it on .dng and .tif files from scanning/reversing film negatives with a DSLR. Sometimes it didn't detect anything (see attached). There should be a way to adjust the tool so more dust is detected. Selecting undected dust in LR doesn't save any time for me over Spot Healing Brush in PS.

Erik Bloodaxe

Legend

That is because this tool is designed to remove sensor dust spots. It says at the outset, in the topmost post:

Please note that scanned negatives are not in the scope of this feature at this time.

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waltoncreative

Inspiring

I don't understand how this clunky interface is helpful. Yes when the dust extraction is turned on it manages to find most of the dust. BUT then when you want to retouch something else you have to TURN OFF the dust extraction to enable the normal retouching menu. Surely there must be a better way to make this feature work so it is possible to retouch BOTH at the same time?

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amgreen

Participant

Dust removal much better. I used it on a 2013 digital image and it removed all the dust spots.

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