Use AI to remove lots of dust and other unwanted dots

Ouch, lots of spots indeed. There seem to be no practical way to get rid of these spots, unless you have (or create) a “spot reference” shot with comparable settings against a featureless surface. Canon calls it “Dust Delete Data”, Nikon calls it “Image Dust Off” - check your camera manual or software for something similar.

You could then subtract the spot reference from the shots and eliminate some or even most of the spots. You can’t do this in PhotoLab though.

The growing number of mirrorless cameras could make an automatic spot removal function a real bonus. Let PhotoLab learn where the spots are: Select a series of shots (with different image content) for PL to create the spot reference, like proposed in this post. Go there and vote for it.

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