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January 31, 2022
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Remove constant artefact from multiple photos

  • January 31, 2022
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Thank you in advance

 

I'd like to have a mask or script or some process to repetatively remove a blemish that is in exactly the same place on every photo.

 

A few thousand of my several thousand photos have developed a vertical dark grey line a few pixels wide spliting the photo in half between the long edges

This developed a few years after I exported JPGs from Aperture on my Mac and reloaded the photos on a new Mac (its complicated)

It doesnt appear to be an inadvertant watermark because it is not present on all photos in a single folder, and some have been duplicated and only one of the pair has it.

It is also in the same position whatever the original orientation of the camera is.

 

How it got there is less important than getting rid of it!!!!!!

 

An example is attached

 

I am new to photoshop (or returned after a decade)

I have just started with the bundle of Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, and Photoshop

 

Thanks for your help

 

Andrew

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photoshop vers 23.1.1

Mac Monterey 12.1

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Participant
June 22, 2024

Sir can I remove multiple photos logo in single click 

 

Kukurykus
Legend
January 31, 2022

1) View / New Guide / Vertical / 50 percent

2) Single Column Marque Tool on guide

3) Select / Modify / Expand / 1 px

4) Edit / Fill / Content Aware

5) Deselect & Clear Guides

 

Make Action from above (that starts from opening a file, and ends by closing & saving it).

Then use 'File > Automate > Batch' item which you set basing on one of many tutorials 😉

Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 31, 2022

I would have recommended pretty much the same thing as @Kukurykus – so here is a "different but same" method...

 

1) Start recording an action

2) Filter > Camera Raw Filter

3) Spot removal tool using heal, brush 2px wide, click once at the top of screen over the line, hold down shift and click once at the bottom of the line.

4) OK the filter

5) Stop recording

 

 

Kukurykus
Legend
January 31, 2022

That's useful too.