Removing spot from photo

[okyou]

Hello,

I am having a tough time trying to remove a light spot in the center of the attached photo. Can anyone share some idea how to remove the round light spot in the center of the photo.
Thanks

[bruce1951]

If you look carefully there are several spots. Dust spots!
It will take sometime to clean up. So I would ask first how important the image is to you?


bruce

[JoeB]

@bruce1951, I don't see dust. The only speckles I see are the pebbles in the sand running along the near bottom of the image.

I believe that @okyou is talking about the camera glare in the center of the image - i.e., the area where there is an opening in the stone wall that you can see through.

@okyou, the only way I can come up with to deal with that is some careful cloning, taking parts of the wall near the glare area that match the stonework that has the glare and using them to cover up the glare. It would take some work to get it looking natural, and you should work on a duplicate layer of the image.

[TimW]

Careful use of the <Burn> tool with an opacity of around 25 will do a very nice job on this problem.

[ehume]

Careful use of the <Burn> tool with an opacity of around 25 will do a very nice job on this problem.

Great tip!

[bruce1951]

JoeB if you look at the image just below the step down in the wall you will see more 'flare' spots. One right on the wall and one slightly lower. My guess is that the sun has caught dust spots on the lens.

bruce

[JoeB]

JoeB if you look at the image just below the step down in the wall you will see more 'flare' spots. One right on the wall and one slightly lower. My guess is that the sun has caught dust spots on the lens.

bruce

Yes, I was aware that there were more glare spots albeit less noticeable than the one in the image center. But when you said "dust spots" I wasn't aware that you meant that the lens glare visible in the image was caused by dust on the lens. It sounded like you meant there were some kind of dust spots on the image.

[bruce1951]

JoeB it's the nature of forums! Short answers often miss the point!

Simply put I believe there are dust spots on the lens that are 'reflecting' the light. (There will be a better technical term for it).
There are a number of approaches to remove them. But it wont be a 5 minute fix.

bruce

[JoeB]

Careful use of the <Burn> tool with an opacity of around 25 will do a very nice job on this problem.

A good job. But could you please provide more speciics - in fact, all of the other settings you used on the brush's tool option palette, including whether or not Continuous was checked, and whether you painted (dragged) with the brush or clicked, moved, clicked, etc. Thanks!

[TimW]

JoeB First thing I did was increase the image resolution to 300ppi so I had a large enough image to work on. Most of my painting was using short strokes with some click, move, click. All my settings will show up in the attached image. My brush size of 50 was about right considering the 300ppi resolution but I did go a bit smaller on a couple of the lesser areas.

[JoeB]

Thanks for the info! I want to experiment with the burn tool on that image for the experience, so this will provide me with a good start!

[TimW]

I forgot to mention that I varied the Limit setting. I used Midtones, Shadow or Highlight depending on which part I was working on.

[ehume]

You do realize that some of us were raised with "Dick and Jane," so when a thread is slugged "Removing spot from photo" we think you are talking about eliminating the dog . . .

"See Spot run!" takes on a whole new meaning.

[bruce1951]

If Spot was a female can we even talk about it and still be politically correct?

Sorry. I couldn't help myself.

bruce

[ehume]

If Spot was a female can we even talk about it and still be politically correct?

Sorry. I couldn't help myself.

bruce

IIRC it was never spelled out but in those sexist times, we assumed Spot was a male dog. "Go Spot Go!" "See Spot run!" and the like. Spot was a good ol' dawg.