Dust spots in Photolab 7 - more powerful than you thought?

[@stevehamilton3181]

Great video! I have been doing something similar but this adds a few more steps toward a better result. Thanks. I, too, miss the one button method in LR, along with a bunch of other features but will never go back.

[@dxflow3271]

Yeah... one of those little features that is nice to have, isn't it. I don't miss it that much, but I would use it in Photolab if it was there for sure. I haven't really used Lightroom (more than in passing) in about 10 years. I confess it is not that bad now, but I don't enjoy using it - just purely from a 'how does it feel' perspective.

[@alangauld6079]

Really useful and I've now done the same in Affinity and recorded it as a macro there too. Fortunately, I don't get too many spots but finding them to remove them can be a pain, this makes it much easier.

[@dxflow3271]

Awesome idea. Thanks for watching

[@christof4105]

thats a really cool tip, thanks! a general tip after trying this out: If you use presets, make sure your custom preset doesn´t use Retouch or else every correction you made will be deleted :D

[@dxflow3271]

Great point.

[@geoffreykingston4866]

Not sure if this is in response to my post on the DxO PhotoLab Users Facebook page but thanks for a great video. It would be great if DxO in one of its forthcoming upgrades did include a generic dust spot remove tool. Almost all other post processing platforms have one.

[@dxflow3271]

Your question did spark my idea about this and I thought this topic would be something that others might be keen on too so put this together. Cheers.

[@geoffreykingston4866]

@@dxflow3271 Thanks. I wonder if DxO will incorporate a dust/spot removal tool as did Capture One. You method works well but would be nice have a one click solution. Am late to DxO but so far it is the best postediting software I have worked with. Keep up the good work!

[@petercooney9156]

It not be a perfect solution but for a series or burst capture the copy and paste selected corrections (i.e. the spotting) could be applied to the set of images given the dust is sensor based. Is this correct?

[@dxflow3271]

I have certainly done this and it worked well for me. I feel like I would want to check them individually that the source for the heal spots were all appropriate of it was important work. I haven't done it often enough to be super confident that it works 100%

[@ianyorke2617]

The curves control in Photolab is one of the crudest curves implementations in modern software. Even the free Faststone Image Viewer has a more sophisticated Curve control. Hopefully V8 will improve on the current situation.

[@dxflow3271]

Fingers crossed it will get some love.