Photoshop 'dust and scratches' tip

When you have a picture with lots of sand in the water or other white particles Photoshop "Dust and scratches" filter does a fast cleaning up compared to the manual treat.

However overall sharpness is severely influenced.

I tried the following:

copy the layer and set blending mode to 'darken'

apply the filter to the background layer

It is fast, speckles are out and sharpness is far better.

Hi Sven,

I think the way you explained your technique still causes an image to look blurry. Do you have an example? I think you might get better results experimenting with the History Brush. Also, have you tried using the Median filter instead; I feel it does a better job than dust and scratches for lots of underwater images you want to correct quickly.

Doug