Removing dust

[Joy Moore]

I am currently under the free trial version. My problem is finding out how to remove dust from photos. I have spent four days on YouTube. I follow what they are doing the the features they use, but these features do not appear on my desktop. 

I do not want to purchase a product I cannot understand. 

Could someone please explain this to me.

Thank you.

Joy

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Joy.

21 minutes ago, Joy Moore said:

I am currently under the free trial version. My problem is finding out how to remove dust from photos. I have spent four days on YouTube. I follow what they are doing the the features they use, but these features do not appear on my desktop.

It sounds as though you’re trying to follow a tutorial for Affinity Photo. Have you perhaps installed the trial version of Affinity Designer instead?

[nickbatz]

On 7/25/2022 at 8:31 AM, Joy Moore said:

I am currently under the free trial version. My problem is finding out how to remove dust from photos. I have spent four days on YouTube. I follow what they are doing the the features they use, but these features do not appear on my desktop. 

I do not want to purchase a product I cannot understand. 

Could someone please explain this to me.

Thank you.

Joy

 

Affinity Photo is the right program to use for this. It does take a while to figure out, but it's time well spent and it eventually does all fall into place.

I've been working with the program a lot for the past six months. While it's helped me produce a lot of really good work along the way, I'm still asking embarrassing questions.

To remove dust:

- Make sure you have a Pixel layer selected. If you opened the photo as an Image, right-click and rasterize it (because Images can't be edited).

- The easiest way to remove dust is probably by painting over it with the Clone Brush tool. It paints from one part of the image onto another, hence the name "clone."

Adjust the brush size with the [ and ] keys, then option-click (alt on Windows) on the source area you want to paint over the dust with, then just click on the dust.

It may be helpful to set the Hardness to 0 so the painting blends in.

[thomaso]

On 7/25/2022 at 5:31 PM, Joy Moore said:

I follow what they are doing the the features they use, but these features do not appear on my desktop.

What are these features called? – Have you tried yet from the menu Filter > Noise > Dust & Scratches, or Denoise ?