[filmscanners] Re: large scanning project

["Roger Smith" <rsmith@unb.ca>]

        Art is correct - the Polaroid Dust and Scratch removal filter is a
very useful tool. The advantage is it works for any file - the
disadvantage is it can't always distinguish between dust and fine
details in the image. You can fine tune the effects with careful
adjustment of the various settings and usually you can find a setting
that removes most of the dust without losing any image detail. You
can then clone out the relatively few spots that remain.  On the
occasions when I can't find a setting that doesn't remove some wanted
detail, I have resorted to selecting in Photoshop the areas that I
want dust removal (or selecting areas that lose detail and inverting
the selection). Over the three years or so I have use the filter it
has saved me many hours of tedious dust spotting.
        I haven't tried the Dustbuster as it is Window only, but if it is
indeed better than the Polaroid it should work well.


Cheers,
Roger Smith

On 30-May-06, at 7:52 AM, Arthur Entlich wrote:

> Before giving up on your Polaroid 4000 scanner, take a look at this
> dust
> and scratch removal utility Polaroid offers for your scanner.
>
> It isn't IR, but it does a pretty good job.  Further there is an
> improved version based upon the same basic concept called "Dustbuster"
> which was made privately and I believe is also a free download, if you
> can locate it.
>
> Polaroid's version:
>
> http://www.polaroid.com/service/software/poladsr/poladsr.html
>
> Also check out David Yip's "dustbuster" program at:
>
> http://www.dustbuster.net/whatsnew.htm
>
>
> Art
>

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