PhixitRemove dust and scratches from scans
Scanned prints and slides come out covered in tiny white specks and hairs. One click finds pixels that stand out from their neighbours and replaces them, leaving genuine detail alone.
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How to remove dust from a scanned photo
- Choose or drop a scan. It opens with Remove dust and speckles ready.
- Set Speck size to the size of the dust (1 to 3 pixels) and Detail to protect so fine texture is kept.
- Select Remove dust and speckles. Fix any larger marks with the Heal brush, then save from Export.
Good to know
- Raise Detail to protect if eyelashes or fabric texture start to soften.
- Run it twice at Speck size 1 rather than once at 3 for stubborn dust with less softening.
- Long scratches and big hairs are better handled with the Heal brush.
Questions
How does it tell dust from detail?
It only replaces pixels that differ sharply from the median of their neighbours, and only by more than the Detail to protect setting.
Will it work on old, damaged photos?
It handles fine specks. Tears and large stains need the Heal and Clone tools.
Does it change colors?
No. Pixels that are not specks are left exactly as they were.
Related tools
- Remove objectsPaint over a spot, a wire or a small object and the heal brush fills it in from the surroundings.
- Clone stampCopy one part of a photo over another with a soft-edged clone brush, for precise retouching along lines and patterns.
- Reduce noiseClean up grainy night and indoor photos with edge-aware noise reduction, plus a separate fix for colored speckles.
- Retouch a photoHeal blemishes, clone, erase, fix red eye, hide private details and remove dust: a full retouch toolkit that runs on your device.