Dust scratch

is it possible for a particle of dust to scratch the spot it was on?
just wondering because theres a little white dot on my screen, and it's only noticeable when theres a source of light shinng on the ipod and this "dust" won't move if i blow on it or try to wipe it off
anyone have a similar problem?

Are you looking at the image at 100% zoom (or higher) when you see the dots go away with the Dust & Scratches filter?
Can you please capture a view of your screen when you're about to run the filter, then again right afterward, then post the images here (using the little camera icon)? That will help illustrate what you're seeing clearly and you'll likely get better help.
-Noel

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CS6 will not save keyboard shortcut for dust & scratches filter

I am running Photoshop CS6 with all updates on a Windows 8 system. I have several keyboard shortcuts set up that all work fine but when I assign a keyboard shortcut for the dust & scratches filter it will work until I close Photoshop - when I then open Photoshop again this shortcut is gone but all my other shortcuts remain.
I have tried going back to the default keyboard shortcuts and then adding just the shortcut for dust & scratches (I have tried ctrl-F8 and several others) and then closing Photoshop and opening it again with the same results. I was able to add back all of my other shortcuts and they work fine.
For some reason I can assign a keyboard shortcut to anything except the dust & scratches filter.
Can anyone shed some light on this problem?
Thanks

I had a chance to try the script on a windows 8 machine running photoshop cs6 13.01 in both photoshop cs6 versions 32 and 64 bit and shortcuts seem to stay between restarts.
If in photoshop cs6 you go to File>Scripts you can see that the script is actually listed?
When i saved the script out of ExtendScript Toolkit i named it Dust and Scatches.jsx.
Did you run ExtendScript Toolkit as an administrator before saving the script?
(right click on the ExtendScript Toolkit shortcut (tile) and choose Run as Administrator)
Saved to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6\Presets\Scripts
(cs6 32 bit)
and
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6\Presets\Scripts
(cs6 64 bit)
Another possibilty if you can't get the script to work is using an action (Filter>Dust and Scratches) and assigning a function key for the shortcut.

Photoshop Elements 10 becomes non-responsive when using Dust & Scratch filter

Trying to apply the remove dust & noise filter in PS Elements 10. When the filter is applied, the hand tool becomes locked on and nothing further can be selected. All menu options become greyed out. Cannot even close program, have to force quit (running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4). Have already reset all tool options to try & resolve the hand tool locking. Have only encountered problem with this filter.
I've got a bunch of scanned photos I really need to use the Dust & Scratches filter for. Any help would be appreciated!

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Macbook Pro Retina Display Pixel / Dust Scratch problem

I have a MBP 15' Retina purchased in October 2012 and last night noticed a number of small white dots on the screen which appeared to be dead pixels, booked into the genius bar this morning and was told that the dead pixels were actually dust scratches where a small piece of dust had got caught between the screen and keyboard when it was closed and had damaged the screen. You can feel tiny bumps if you run your finger nail over the areas so this may be the case but while it may be the reason you'd expect that a $3500 machine wouldn't have a design fault that allows tiny dust particles to damage the screen.
The Genius said that this was a known issue and that while it had been escalated with other customers' machines, the issue is cosmetic and not covered under warranty.
Has anyone else had this issue and what were the /are the steps to getting the screen replaced under warranty given that this apprears to be a known isssue and shouldn't happen to a $3500 computer.
Thanks

This is a load of malarky!!! Do you know how big the dust particle has to be in order to chip the screen. Remember there is a rubber seal that runs the edge of the screen, and this is 1mm in height. So what we are talking about is something the size of a large grain of sand.
Ok, lets say you have this, the sand must be very sharp, in order to chip glass. Secondly, if you press gently on the glass while looking at a light in the reflection of the glass, you will see it distort, right? So that means, even a 1mm piece of dust is not going to "Chip" it.
Ok, lets say, that you happen to drop your wifes 0.2 carat diamond on your keyboard and close the screen. In this case, yes it may chip the glass, but I ask you, don't you think that this kind of protrusion would at least result in a scratch on the aluminium body? What is not known by these guys is that this glass is crystalline. If the manufacturing process doesn't go well, it can sometimes cause fault lines in the crystallisation structure. Not all glass chips are physical. In fact, heating and mild distortion of the glass could cause chips in weakened areas.
I AM 100% sure that if anyone threatens legal action they would replace the screen. Any laboratory low-end microscope will examine the chip and will clearly show the crystal in the glass flaking. Did someone say CLASS ACTION.
I have this issue after having the laptop for 3 days, I AM VERY ANGRY that the twerp at genius who thinks he is very intelligent, tries to fast-talk his way out of things. I am not one to make a scene at the store and dont think this gets us anywhere, but Apple needs to step up and train these nappy-heads about these things.
I mean, I have had laptops for 20 years, I have had scratches, cracks, smirks, plastic burns on the screens, but NEVER a chip in the glass, only time I have seen a chip is on my windscreen, and doesn't that look different? This is one for the courts, I am not happy that I have spent so much on a MBP now and have to live with the fear that the screen can spontaneously crack, perhaps even explode in a mushroom cloud (ok, that one was comedy relief).
I am a very honest person as most of us are here, and the bearded baboons at Genius have no right to call me or any of us liars, granted there are 1% of people who come in any lie, but the other 99% are loyal RETURNING customers, this is why Apple has been successful, not cos of the flarnin (that word is so I dont get sensored,!!) logo! Laptops are portable devices and don't belong behind museum glass. If Apple "Stuffed Up" with this design, that is ok, however they should take a few bucks off their soaring share price and help the consumers who help them succeed. Either redesign the product, do a recall on all your machines, or at least don't be a JE_RK about replacing machines still under warranty and make out that YOUR customers are liars.
The problem with a monopoly is not the company, its the staff who get a rush out of feeling like they are somehow in a position of power, but go home and realise they are only paid $20/h and get grounded for coming home too late.
I say, take action, prove your point, and don't take their nonsense.
(In case you are wondering, this was a rant, mainly at the Genius boys!!! But some good points.... I hope :D)

Dust & scratch removal

Is there a function in A3 for dust & scratch removal - NOT doing it manually, but over the entire photo or selected area? Or, is there a plug-in available, such as the dust removal one for Photoshop?

The problem with the PSE user interface is that it is a high-end painting/publishing/retouching tool (PS CS) with a complex menu & dialog box structure, upon which:
* features have been removed wholesale (curves, scripting, etc.)
* features have been removed partially (color management, etc.)
* features have been added (Variations, Process Multiple Files) resulting in more menus, more modes
* a completely independent application has been unceremoniously glued on (Organizer)
It is, in a word, a MESS.
As I've said before, the technology is great but the user interface is a disaster.
Honestly, I would leave PSE alone and sell it as a "painting" application. Then I'd come out with a new product designed for photographers/snapshooters. I would:
1. take a 'light' version of Apple's Aperture
2. add selections/masking [the nondestructive, resizable, Ansel Adams Zone-based selections/masks in LightCraft's LightZone are very cool!)
3. add simple layers (maybe even the tool-specific layers as in LightZone)
4. and then do usability testing. You know, clicking on text shouldn't just select the layer, it should allow you to edit the text. Jeez, how difficult is that for a consumer program?
[edit: corrected typo]

Dust & Scratches behaving oddly

I've just started using Photoshop CS5 (2007 iMac 2.8Ghz, OS 10.5.8) after using CS4 and am noticing odd performance from the venerable Noise > Dust & Scratches filter.
I set my parameters using live preview, click OK and wait: the resultant image is all but unchanged. Nothing at all like what the preview was showing me. If I zoom way in on the file I can see changes, but it's as if the settings were all too fine to have had the result being previewed.
If I go back to CS4 the behavior is normal again.
Need help: working on deadline.
Thanks!

Are you viewing at 100% (command-1)?
Because anything else is better not to be considered reliable.

Dust&scratch cs5 win7

I scanned a neg in bw, and it shows small black dots. I tried dust&scratch filter and in the preview the dots disappear, but clicking ok, ps does its calculations and after that the image still have those dots. Clicking undo and redo doesn't have any effect on the image. There are no other layers , tried grey, rgb, 8/16-bit -modes, every time the same thing. In the preview no dots, but final image still has them.
tia

Are you looking at the image at 100% zoom (or higher) when you see the dots go away with the Dust & Scratches filter?
Can you please capture a view of your screen when you're about to run the filter, then again right afterward, then post the images here (using the little camera icon)? That will help illustrate what you're seeing clearly and you'll likely get better help.
-Noel

Dust&Scratches/Masks/Opacity

I'm recently new to Ae so bear with me. I have some dust spots in a footage I need to get rid of. Using the Dust&Scratches effect. Working in two layers. The original and a dust&scratch. Once setting the radius I go into the original and create two masks around the dust spots using the ellipse tool. Using the key frames I change the opacity of the masks. Works beautifully on the one mask but on one of them it changes the opacity of the whole layer. I.e totally blurred or goes totally black. Just can't figure out why changes to one mask should behave in a completely different way to another. Any help sincerely appreciated.
By the way using this way to remove sensor dust is it on of the better ones? Have done a lot of searching but nothing seems very straightforward if the background keeps changing. Want to avoid turning into stills and then back to video as concerned I might loose quality.
Attaching screen shots.
Thank you

CS-G wrote:
I think I'll need to go back and learn all the basics
Do! It'll help avoid a lot of frustration.
Here's the best place to start: Getting started with After Effects

Clean up Dust/Scratches on iPhoto Based Pix ?

Background: I have current Mac/iPhoto software and a CanonScan 9000F that came with PSE 8. I plan to scan about 25 trays of old slides and get them organized with iPhoto. The first two trays have been imported to iPhoto events and they turned our relatively well with one major exception. These trays were the oldest ones (40+ years) and they have a good deal of dust and fibers. Is there a way I can export these events into PSE 8 and automatically have it remove the dust, etc from these initial 200 photos? And then import them back into iPhoto?
Are there any documented "how to" procedures covering this subject. Thanks much in advance.

Set up PSE as your external editor in the iphoto prefs and send the photos from iphoto to PSE, or export them to the desktop, use file>open in PSE and reimport them to iphoto as new files.
If you use PSE as external editor, save, not Save As, without changing the name or format and iphoto will keep one edited version plus original. You may need to go to PSE>prefs>Saving Files>On First Save to set this up right.
In PSE try the Dust and Scratches filter, the spot healing brush, etc. Hard to make a recommendation without seeing a photo.

Scratch removal: Does Ps CS6 have a tool for that? Or are there plugins?

Scanning old slides often shows large scratches and specks. How can they be removed?
I use Photoshop CS6, does it contain tools for that?
Or are there plugins?
What I'm looking for is a Scratch Removal tool like I find in Silverfast 8SE (have one bundled with my Canoscan 9000F scanner) called SDR (I don't mean the iSDR which used the sanner's ínfrared).
It automaticllay searches out scratches, marks them in red, lets you adjust how strongly it hunts for them, sizes etc.
Then when you like it, click to remove them.
Very useful!
Two problems: it only works in conjunction with scanning, can't open an existing file.
And it only handles 8bit color depth.
I suppose full versions of Silverfast won't have these limitations, but that would mean quite an expense.
Since I have invested in Ps CS6 I'd want to keep to that.
Maybe I'm overlooking what's already in Ps? Or in available plugins?
Please help,
Sverker

If you have huge numbers of them, Filter - Noise - Dust & Scratches right in Photoshop. If they're always lighter than the surroundings (e.g., a negative scan that's been inverted), you can limit the effect with Edit - Fade - Darken afterward.
Or if you're willing to do some hand work, and ensure inadvertent things won't be changed, you can select the Spot Healing Brush Tool, set it to Content Aware mode and just dab the spots. Photoshop is pretty good at making up fill data.
-Noel

Dust removal

This seems pretty basic, but I couldn't find it in either this forum or the Aperture 3 user's manual: I've been using Adobe Photoshop Elements and iPhoto, but I recently upgraded from iPhoto to Aperture, and Aperture seems to do pretty much everything that PSE does, in terms of basic photo editing. PSE has a Dust & Scratches filter that I use with scanned photos, at a 1 pixel radius, to remove dust. What is the equivalent in Aperture? I'm guessing it's either Spot & Patch or Noise Reduction, but I can't figure out how to do it. Spot & Patch doesn't seem to go below 3 pixels, and the Apply to Entire Photo option for Noise Reduction is grayed out, and I don't know why.

thenextbutton wrote:
I would stick to Photoshop for that, simply setup aperture to export the photo to adobe and then come back in to aperture for all other types of work.
Agree.
@OP: There is no "automatically select and repair dust spots" in Aperture that I know of. Noise reduction could likely be coaxed to work on single-pixel spots, but you'd have to figure it out and test it. As long as you are comfortable round-tripping the image, the tool of choice today seems to be PS even if Aperture is your DAMS.

Scratch removal tool

For those of us who have large negative archives, a scratch removal tool would greatly reduce the trips to PS. I understand that the need for a scratch removal tool will diminish as the user base migrates to 100% digital, but we're still a long way that day.
Thanks for your consideration.
Ketzie

If you have huge numbers of them, Filter - Noise - Dust & Scratches right in Photoshop. If they're always lighter than the surroundings (e.g., a negative scan that's been inverted), you can limit the effect with Edit - Fade - Darken afterward.
Or if you're willing to do some hand work, and ensure inadvertent things won't be changed, you can select the Spot Healing Brush Tool, set it to Content Aware mode and just dab the spots. Photoshop is pretty good at making up fill data.
-Noel

Why does my Western Digital drive freeze my OSX

Hey all!
I'm in a bad spot.
Yesterday I was going through files on my 6TB western digital my book hard drive connected to my old iMac running snow leopard. I had been playing many different movie files from my camera in quick time player to categorize them during a couple of days and everything had been fine. But all of a sudden quick time froze and wouldn't answer so I had to force quit it and then I tried again, then the same thing happened and then Finder and everything froze and I had to force shut off the computer by holding down the power button. Then the same thing happened after I restarted the computer. After each time I have to force off the computer the WD hard drive still has its light on and keep sounding like it's working hard and I have to pull the power plug from it to make it stop.
Then I started it again to try to just copy files from it but the drive would freeze OSX again. So I connected it to my old macbook pro and the same thing happened but then I tried to connect it with usb instead of fire wire and it seemed to act normal. Then I replaced the firewire and tested and it seemed to work fine on both computers. So I assumed it was the firewire cable that was causing problems. Since I was a bit shaken I started to do backups of everything from the hard drive and copied a folder of 323 GB during the night. In the morning it had copied everything but 10 GB and had frozen again. So again I connected both to the Macbook Pro and copied over what was missing. Then I tried to copy another folder but it froze again.
It behaves very irrational in my eyes and I wonder what is wrong and what to do?
When I start the computer without that drive, it acts normally and the same goes for when I connect another external hard drive.
Did a control with disk utility on both the internal and the external drives, and it said they are fine.
I didn't notice that the hard drive was standing in the sun which was shining through the window behind my iMac and the room was quite warm. Can that be what started all this?
Also I noticed that the folder that I did a backup of, shows different content size on the Macbook pro and on the iMac. And this goes for both the original folder and the backup on the other external drive. Finder says both folders are 301 GB on the Macbook and 323 on the iMac. This freaks me out since this is a very important folder and I can't loose 22 GB. Anyone who knows why this can be?
I would be extremely grateful for any thoughts on this!
Thanks

nopointsforsecondplace wrote:
Thanks a lot rccharles, I'm gonna try this.
When data rescue (data recovery software) makes a clone of the problem disk, does it use the disk in another way than when it does normal data recovery? When I try to do data recovery it freezes after maybe 20 minutes just as when I just copy files in Finder, is it different when making a clone?
I don't know how Data Rescue works (it's proprietary software).
It does sound like your disk could be physically damaged (you still need to try an external case) - if you continue to try to repair you may lose even more data until the disk is totally unreadable. Imagine a spec of dust scratching across your data - the act of trying to read & re-read can cause more damage. As more pieces of disk get scratched off the platters the entire inside of the mechanism gets covered in dust, resulting in more scratches, more data loss…
Seriously, the best option you have is to take it to data recovery professionals for them to look at it. They may be able to open it & replace failed parts or take a copy with a limited amount of corrupted files. Some indications may be the sound the disk makes when it 'freezes' - but that is only a guide for professional ears.
Recovery software can try to re-read data when disks encounter errors. Some smart recovery software will force the disk to avoid retrying these - that skips over the damage - the files in the damaged area will be unusable but the surrounding data may still be recoverable. Professionals may take one copy & avoid using the disk until they have diagnosed how it failed - limiting the potential for more damage.
ddrescue is one command line tool that will clone without retrying to re-read, but that is complex to use.
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
Here are examples from an old disk that ground up itself…
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=107678
Your issue probably is not be the same as that example, I'm not trying to scare you but you should consider how important this data is, repeated recovery attempts can make that impossible even for professionals.

Unknown Hard Error when installing Windows XP?

Ok first off I tried installing Windows Vista Home Premium on my new 24in iMac and after installation had problems installing drivers. Found out it was because I had a 64 bit version of Vista and the iMacs dont support that. Then I got a copy of XP Home Service Pack 3 from a friend to try. Im not sure if it is 32 or 64 bit but I was going to try it anyways. Its starts to extract the files and get ready for the install but not long after it does that it gives me an unknown error and the blue screen of death.
"STOP: c0000221 Unknown Hard Error
\SystemRoot\System32\ntdll.dll"
Does anyone know what this means? I would really like to get one of them installed. I dont care which one...if anyone knows how I can put a 64bit version of Vista on my iMac that would probably be best since it installed fine and just messed up when installing the drivers. Otherwise can anyone tell me what to do about this unknown error? Or do I need to search around for yet another operating system cd?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Hi KadeP,
there is indeed not a solution for that CD-problem, since you are getting it when installing from the CD not after the installation, when there is a problem with that specific file on your harddisk.
So, apart from the checking of the CD for physical problems (dirt, dust, scratches) the only other solution would be the use of another CD and maybe doing a full disc-copy of that CD onto a CD-R or CD-RW and hoping the best.
As for the Vista procedures the hatter described, all these has to be done before even installing Vista and also on a Windows PC.
The outcome of that would be a modified Vista Installation DVD, which seems to be installing even on iMacs not really supported.
Since I don't have Vista I never tried it myself, though.
But the hatter is 'our local Vista/Windows 7 genius'
As for the 'old XP CD' you found:
such behaviour/error is usually a sign that the XP CD is not at Service Pack level 2 (SP2) which is a must for XP CDs.
However, you can use these instructions http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxpsp2slipstream.asp to 'slipstream' yourself a XP SP2 installation CD.
But again, you have to do it on a running Windows PC.
Regards
Stefan

Batch processing photographs in Photoshop Elements 11

Hi everyone,
I've been scanning in a lot of old photographs of late. Many (probably all) of them would benefit from application of the "dust & scratches" filter, but it doesn't appear as an option in the "process multiple files" pull-down. I've heard about "autohotkey" being used as an alternative mechanism for doing batch processing, but can't find an example online that works with Photoshop Elements 11. Would anyone care to share any tips on how I could automatically process my scanned photographs in ways that "process multiple files" doesn't offer?
Thanks in advance for any assistance anyone can offer.
Best regards,
Andrew.

One way which i've been doing this is to use the Image Processor script from photoshop in pse 11.
(only works in pse 11 or possibly future versions of photoshop elements)
You can download the PSE 11 Image Processor.zip, extract the file (right click on the zip and press Extract All)
https://workspaces.acrobat.com/?d=ZOP9CgDC38plXHju4uVLkQ
and then copy the Image Processor.jsx to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 11\Presets\Scripts (64 bit version of windows 8)
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 11\Presets\Scripts (32 bit version of windows 8)
Start or restart pse11 and in the Expert mode it should be listed under File>Automation Tools>Image Processor
(an image doesn't have to be open to run the script)
Then we just need to know if you want the Dust and Scratches to use the same settings all the time or you want to be able to adjust the filter between photos.
(so we could send you the action to use with the image processor)
The image processor is similar to process mutiple fles except you can choose to run action that you have loaded in Window>Actions on the processed photos.

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