P: (Ai) Spot removal (Sensor Dust)

[mfiorentino]

Since LRC is pretty good at finding and marking (visualising) spots, especially when looking at a clear sky, it should be a no-brainer to select those spots automatically. It could be a feature to use in the Healing panel where you could review and remove the ones you do not want to be erased manually afterwards.

A kind of "detect spots automatically"-functionality only marking them just as you would do manually. This feature could remove some heavy lifting if you are faced with an image that accidentally happens to have a lot of spots. In the background, increasing dehazing could help LRC identify the areas so that the outline becomes clearer to recognise and then mark afterwards.

When looking at a reasonably clear sky, you can see them clearly and want to remove them, so having LRC do most of the work for you would be a huge plus.

[Hard Coder]

Oh, heck yes!

I have a really cool shoot done on a very clear day at the beach ... with a 1Ds2 that had a really filthy sensor.

I am absolutely 100% completely positive that "AI" can fix those **** spots.

Copying healing from one image to another seems like it should work in theory, but somehow LR always manages to mess that up, and this shows up when the client looks at the photo and says "hey what's wrong with my knee?".

[ben446]

Can we please get AI dust removal.

Single click, adjust amount, before / after, add / subtract, run on single or mutiple images.

Thanks

[Ian Lyons]

You might want to upvote your request as all votes count and the more you get the more likely your suggestion will be considered.

[ben446]

and also have the fixed image carry over to an HDR Pano.

[lanacole]

With all of the advancements in AI these days, I feel like there might be a way to auto detect dirt or dust in photos. As much as I wish I was on top of keeping my sensor clean on my camera, sometimes I'm in a hurry and don't notice as I'm shooting and end up taking hours during post processing removing all of the dirt marks. It would be awesome if Lr could somehow detect when there is a dark spot in the sky or ground and auto delete it (or at least give the option to). 

[Jao vdL]

Now that would be a useful use of AI!

[davidv52526598]

All these new features and no command to clean images and files of debris prior to printing? 
unreal. Unacceptable 

[KR Seals]

Can you tell us more about the debris you are talking about? If you are in need of removing spots in the image caused by dust spots on the camera sensor, you have two ways to deal with that. 1. Keep your sensor clean. 2. Are you familiar with the develop module check box "Visualize Spots"? You find that in the Develop module, Spot Healing Tool, little check box on the lower left.

I prefer to deal with spots manually. I would not want LrC to be removing things from the image that I don't want it to.

[JohanElzenga]

I too would love to see an AI-driven option that auto-detects spots and offers to remove them, but as Lightroom does have the tools to do this manually, I think that words like 'unreal' or 'unacceptable' are over the top. Just curious, is there other software that already offers this?

[GoldingD]

I too would love to see an AI-driven option that auto-detects spots and offers to remove them, but as Lightroom does have the tools to do this manually, I think that words like 'unreal' or 'unacceptable' are over the top. Just curious, is there other software that already offers this?

By @JohanElzenga

Not at a computer to test, but perhaps:

• Automatically Remove Sensor Dust ON1 Photo RAW 2025
• Easy Dust Spot Removal with Luminar Neo
• The new Capture One AI Remove Dust tool in action: it’s very good!

[GoldingD]

Moderator, perhaps consider merging this post into an earlier one:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/dust-spot-removal-ai-tool/idi-p/14431046 

[JohanElzenga]

That is a Photoshop ideas forum. I moved this to Lightroom Classic ideas (and changed the title).

[Boguslaw344135996jri]

Instead of syncing removed spots with other photos, let AI to identify the sensor dust to be removed and apply the removal accordingly with a 'heal' or 'remove' existing functions. The way it should work would be similar to distraction removal in PS (like erasing electric cables).  In other words, auto-detect sensor dust without scribbling or circling manually and remove it.

[Hikaru920]

Please add a feature that uses AI to detect and automatically remove sensor dust spots, especially within sky areas using the Sky Mask in Lightroom Classic. This would greatly improve efficiency when editing landscape photos with visible dust. Current spot healing tools are not efficient when many spots are present.

[yamato7]

Hi @Hikaru920 

Feature requests are more likely to reach developers if you post them in the global thread rather than the Japanese thread.
Also, you need to get a lot of votes.

[jtwg]

I have a camera that underwent a monochrome conversion where the person who did the conversion damaged the sensor, or carelessly left some dust under the sensor lid. I have had the camera professionally cleaned since then. It's as good as it can be, but that means there are a few spots that routinely need to be removed from my images.

I would love a feature where I could take a reference image of a blank surface and repair the spots, where Lightroom can save that as a profile that can then be either manually or automatically applied to images taken with that camera. I have seen people ask about something like this as far back as 2008. Would be great if it was possible.

Thanks!

[Doudi-l'apprenti]

Bonjour l’équipe Adobe,

Utilisateur fidèle de Lightroom Classic, je m’étonne qu’en 2025, il n’existe toujours pas une fonction automatisée d’effacement des poussières sur capteur — une tâche chronophage, particulièrement dans les séries de photos avec ciel uniforme ou fonds lisses.

Des logiciels comme Luminar Neo proposent depuis longtemps une fonction “remove dust spots” intelligente et en un clic, qui analyse toute l’image, identifie les artefacts circulaires et les élimine sans intervention manuelle.

Pourquoi Lightroom, outil de référence pour les photographes pros, ne propose-t-il toujours pas un outil aussi simple et productif ?

Une fonction du type :

• Analyse automatique des spots de capteur

• Traitement par lot sur plusieurs images

• Possibilité de valider ou corriger les points détectés

serait un gain de temps énorme pour les workflows professionnels.

Merci de considérer cette évolution indispensable pour la prochaine mise à jour.

Bien à vous,

(un utilisateur qui passe trop de temps à tamponner des taches invisibles jusqu’au zoom 100 %)

[Hikaru920]

Thank you!

[Benoit et Ler279526960eh4]

Bonjour,

Je reviens de voyage et j'ai encore et toujours le même problème : dans le désert ou autre environnement poussérieux, les défauts dus aux saletés et autres poussières fleurissent dans le surfaces planes et en particulier le ciel -malgré les nombreux nettoyages d'objectifs et capteur-. Quand on a 15 à 30 tâches sur 100 photos, on trouve le temps long à les enlever une par une -malgré des copier coller-. Alors que Lightroom a une option pour faire apparaître ces tâches/défauts (typiquement des petits ronds dans le ciel), il semble qu'un outil de suppression automatisée soit faisable, notamment avec l'IA. Je pense qu'il serait vivement apprécié de nombreux utilisateurs  !

Merci

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

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