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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Grig33119392595m

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That is an absolutely AMAZING feature!

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corrupted_1671

Participant

This worked amazingly, however in some cases longer streaks of dust and dirt on lenses would get removed only half way. Another flaw was its choices of removal, in one image it removed a random artifact that didn't exist. One suggestion is adding a drawing feature so I can manually choose my artifacts that I want to remove from my image. 🙂

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byronw41971227

Inspiring

I just tried this Dust removal feature for the first time. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. I have had several dust spots on my camera for a few years, and this new tool removes them all, perfectly. What a time saver. It removed almost 40 of those spots in the blue sky. Fantastic.

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Sean Goodhart

Known Participant

I'm finding the dust spot removal very useful. Very occasionally it makes mistakes, particularly if the dust is across solid colour changes in the image. I've attached an example of the "before" and "after" dust spot removal with an oops.
Looking forward to seeing this tool migrated from ACR in to LrC/Lr - it's fabulous, even with the flaw I've found.

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Pandelama

Participant

Works in BETA excelent. Big Thanks

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JohnLester

Participant

This is for me the most useful feature and I hope it is refined and made as powerful as possible. I have a Leica M9 which I rendered useless due to rust on the sensor and Leica are unwillinging to repair. Now I can use it again and need only to touch out manually the stubburn rust. Marvellous, encore Adobe... John Griffiths.

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default5lb629282878

Participant

I'm really interested in dust removal for scanned pictures &/or negatives. It seems unavoidable even with care, and takes a LONG time to remove.

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Brian Buchard

Participant

Unfortunatly it does not work on negative film dust. Maybe the functions is tuned towards sensor dust and not film scans

Rikk Flohr_Photography

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Community Manager

The post at the top of this thread explains that quite clearly, @Brian Buchard

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

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Brian Buchard

Participant

Than you @Rikk Flohr: Photography Will wait for an update focusing on scans. As a pretty obvious thing when metioning small white dust particles in focal plane is of course that they are black when scanning positive film .

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consilience8

Participant

Since most dust occurs from scanned negatives, this isn't particularly helpful as a tool. I have never had a dust problem with digital imaages.

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Geoff79

Participating Frequently

Surprised about the latest very positive reviews... makes me wonder what I'm doing wrong. Like a few of the early repliers, I am not having great luck with it. I won't say it does nothing at all, and when it comes to dust removal, any assistance is good assistance. But I'd say it removes 10-20% of dust spots in my experience so far, which still leaves at least 80% for me to clean up manually. And sadly, I have an atrociously dusty sensor.

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Geoff79

Participating Frequently

I wanted to follow this one up with two screen shots, in case it can help the situation. One shows the image before the dust removal, and the other one shows after. As you can see, a handful of spots have been removed, but most were left behind. This is at very least how it is for me every time. If anything, I believe that generally it removes even less than on this one.

And yes, I am aware my sensor is as bad as it gets. I've tried to clean it myself, and use the blower where and when I can, but can't seem to have any impact. I used to have "a guy" but no one I know of anywhere near where I am exists, so I've had to resign to removing it in post processing, with heavy sadness.

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