"William Todd" <tomtodd@bellatlantic.net> asked: "Could someone please
repost the URL for the Polaroid D&S filter. I have 1.0 and does not seem
to work with PS 7.0.1"
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Google "polaroid dust scratches filter" and you will get the second hit:
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=390847&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=12631&bmLocale=en_US&PRDREG=POL&SOURCE=cat
alog> or
I've been using D&SR on a number of scans I've been doing lately, and
I'd appreciate thoughts and ideas from others of you who have been
trying it. I've been scanning old negatives on my Minolta ScanDual II
(WinXP home, PS 7.01) using Vuescan, scanning at 2820ppi to disk and
saving as 80-quality (in Vuescan) jpegs. I get a lot of spots and
scratches from these scans which take five or more minutes each to
"spot" using PS7 and mostly the healing brush, and some use of the clone
stamp tool.
Almost everything I've learned about the filter has been trial and
error. I've found the Help not to be of much use. I first tried D&SR's
stand-alone mode. I liked being able to see the defect mask and the
effects of the various settings on which defects were selected for
cleaning. I found the eraser tool to be of some use, but the other tools
remained a mystery.
Of late, I've been using the PS filter mode. Though you cannot see a
"defect mask", you can see the effects of the cleaning by clicking on
the view panel to see a before and after. I've found that the filter is
most useful for all those little one-and-two pixel spots--the larger the
spot I try to clean, the more "false positive" highlights get affected.
I'm generally setting the Feathering at the middle setting (2 in the
Stand-Alone Mode) and the Mask setting at the first mark (6 on the SAM)
and not changing either one. I vary the Tile Size and Defect Level to
get a good compromise between getting the little undesirable spots and
leaving the desirable highlights alone. Typical settings are between the
first two marks on both (12-16 on TS and 6-10 on DL on the SAM). Before
applying the filter, I scroll through the image (in the little window)
to see what spots are being left and what highlights are being "cleaned"
away.
I've generally been doing color corrections before using the D&SR
filter, thinking it's easier to tell a spot from a highlight in a
color-corrected image. After applying the filter (with Ctrl-Alt-F to get
the last setting active), I set the History state to just prior to D&SR.
This lets me use the History brush to revert any unwanted "corrections"
of highlights to their original states. I then alternate between "J" for
the Healing tool and "Y" for the History brush as I scroll through the
image viewed at 100%, fixing defects with the appropriate tool.
I find this marginally faster and much less nerve-wracking than not
using the D&SR filter. I'd like to hear other methods and procedures for
using this filter and any secrets or other suggestions for alternative.
Preston Earle
PEarle@triad.rr.com
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