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Gimp routines for salvaging dust-bespeckled (photo) negatives

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Gimp routines for salvaging dust-bespeckled (photo) negatives Felix Karpfen 05 Sep 23:31
Felix Karpfen
2006-09-05 23:31:21 UTC (over 17 years ago)

Gimp routines for salvaging dust-bespeckled (photo) negatives

I have experimented with combining the following routines for removing numerous dust-specks from scans of (ancient home-developed black&white) films:

1. select the area to be cleaned with ""; use "quickmask" to make the selected area easier to encapsulate;

and

2. use "selective Gaussian blur" to merge the dust-specks into the background.

Based on my experiments, these routines appear to be incompatible. If I use the "Bezier curves" with "quickmask", then - "selective Gaussian blur" either does not work at all or works but blurs the whole picture.

In the absence of "quickmask", "Bezier curves+selective Gaussian blur" work adequately.

If there is a more elegant solution to my problem, I would be grateful to be told.

Felix Karpfen