B/W JPG lens dust mark corrections

[Chris Wheeler]

Chris Wheeler again, folks - Thanks for all the responses. The problem is just white dust spots on a dark background from crap on the lens of the original camera, not anything major. In Photoshop as I remember it you clicked with blemish correcting tool on the background then clicked on the blemish and it disappeared. I've tried every tool and click combination in Photo tools, looked at the Manual which is like trying to read the Koran in the original Arabic as a Jap peasant and get the general impression that you need to do a whole lot of preparatory mucking around with levels, etc before anything happens. I love the competition Affinity has given the rest of the ratbags, but Heh! - something simple and direct! Hasn't anyone read Robert Pirsig's ZEN & THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE? It's possible to write a manual that ordinary people in the real world can understand without having to do doctorate  course on semantics. Hasta la vista!

[walt.farrell]

I'm not sure why you created a new topic, instead of staying in the original one. It's possible a moderator will choose to merge them

You might be talking about using the Clone Brush Tool, or the Healing Brush Tool, or the Patch Tool, or the Blemish Removal Tool:

Or perhaps you could use the Dust and Scratches Filter, which comes in destructive and non-destructive (Live) versions.

Reading the Help, and doing some experimenting, is the best way to go, in my opinion. But if you're more of a visual learner, a search on YouTube will find a bunch of tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=affinity+photo+remove+dust