Distraction Removal: Dust (Camera Raw and Lightroom Classic)

I do not understand why you press on dust for dust removal and then have a separate button to execute it.  Why not just one button?  There must be a reason I assume but it is annoying!

Noisy iPhone shot at night of city scape in China.

The scope needs to be broader to support film and flatbed scans.

To improve the experience start with:

• Improve dust removal for B/W and color film
• Improve scratch removal tools film.

This will show that Adobe isn’t ignoring film based photographers and in fact wanting to offer more value with the product.

This example is a scan of a film that was poorly washed. (Rewashing addressed a huge amount of contaminants) however surely software could do something.

I absolutely love the dust removal. I used to dred cleaning up dust spots. It used to take hours of tedious selection and hopefully the replacement would match. Now. No problem. Quick and easy. Adobe. You got this one right. Thank you.

It blended three dust spots which were close together into one swirly smudge.maybe it reference databank matched it with a cloud or something. It missed a load as well. They love to suck the joy and sense of achivement out of everything. ..just replace it with a better photo maybe thats what should of popped up :)

One good thing is you can delete individual ones.

I just tried this on an old photo with many dust and scratches showing it said no dust found. Useless!!

This tool ONLY works for digital files, as in coming from a digital camera. It’s great for this purpose. I also shoot film and would really appreciate it if this technology could be changed to understand dust and dirt on negative scans as well. That’s a lot more work than digital file retouching.

Honestly, this is pathetic-- just a heads up to all my Adobe users, threaten to cancel, talk to a real agent, and get your subscriptions dropped 50% for a year. Showing something like this should be more than sufficient to get a reduction in your payments.

Tried the tool for the first time today. Clearly visible specks of white dust on a black cloth background.  The results were:  No dust was found.

That’s a big fail.

My take on this feature, and I could be wrong, is that it is only designed (to quote the original post) to remove "distracting spots on an image that may be caused by dust on a camera's sensor", and also to quote "please note that scanned negatives are not in the scope of this feature at this time".

I guess the term 'dust removal' unfortunately implies far more than just sensor dust!

What users (including me) are clamouring for is a tool that will remove dust spots from scanned photos, negatives and slides.  Will this ever be introduced?

(PS: the video attached to the original post seems to be for Lightroom, not Lightroom Classic?)