Expert: Huma Riaz - 12/16/2004

Question
I have scanned a photo at 3X4 at 600DPI.  It's a professionally shot portrait with a black background.  I'm getting a bunch of white spots or speckling on my scanned image background and a few within the actual portrait subject.  I have cleanded the scanner and appears to have no dust or dirt and is in very good shape.  I can't seem to rid the photo of them...Help!  I have Photoshop CS and Corel photo-paint 8

Answer
A sometimes dust particle comes while scanning something on high resolution. it can be on scanner or the photo, sometimes developing print also causes the problem.

You can touch-up the portrait by Rubber stamp tool pixel-to-pixel. Or you can use couple of filters but it may decrease the quality. (Noise/Median or despeckle) the best solution is always using the rubber stamp tool on the effected pixel. This would never show up the touch up mark if using perfectly


Hope it will help, feel free to ask anything further


Huma Riaz
Location: Karachi-Pakistan