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I discovered white marks on most of my photos which was caused by a fingermark on my lens. Can anyone suggest a way of removing the white mark please?
Of course Photoshop 5 will fix that in a jiffy with its content aware cloning tool. You can also fix it with Aperture and Lightroom 3. I don't know of any free software that will do the job though. Do you need that particular photo anyway ? It looks pretty noisy and isn't a wall hanger or anything. Or is it something you wanted someone to see ? How many other photos have been affected by your fingers ?
Tip for the next outing: Always carry an Lens Pen with you and check your lenses before mounting them !
If you don't have the available software, I can take care of them for you at some point if you'd like. If you have the RAW files it would be better than the .jpgs
Doug
Of course Photoshop 5 will fix that in a jiffy with its content aware cloning tool. You can also fix it with Aperture and Lightroom 3. I don't know of any free software that will do the job though. Do you need that particular photo anyway ? It looks pretty noisy and isn't a wall hanger or anything. Or is it something you wanted someone to see ? How many other photos have been affected by your fingers ?
Tip for the next outing: Always carry an Lens Pen with you and check your lenses before mounting them !
If you don't have the available software, I can take care of them for you at some point if you'd like. If you have the RAW files it would be better than the .jpgs
Doesn't always work depending on the scene.
I'm really curious to see the other photos Tony. Reason being is that if they're anything like the one you've displayed already, in terms of composition and content, then I wouldn't really spend too much time worrying about what might already be too late to fix.
Are these photos needed for sentimental reasons ? Can you give us a bit more background info on the "ruined" images ? What I'm really trying to get to here is this:
I have thousands of images in my Lightroom catalog, and I absolutely know without a doubt, that tons of them are pure crapola. (I'm not calling your photo crap) Maybe someone else might disagree and find something interesting about them which I just don't see, but I know that it wouldn't matter to me unless they were willing to pay me for their interest.
Of course, some photos are simply only vacation pics or silly friend or family pics, and in those cases image quality isn't all that much of a concern. But as with such photos, I also know that I've usually taken a redundant amount of the same types, so I don't hesitate to throw away the worst of them.
What I'm suggesting to you is that you might want to consider what is really worth keeping and what is ok to simply get rid of.
I'm looking at your example photo and right off the bat several things concern me about you wanting to fix it. Do you have the RAW image of this and the other photos ? Or is everything jpg? It's already filled with chromatic and luminescent noise, and has some fairly heavy amount of compression artifacts. Editing a photo with such qualities will only serve to make it look worse the more and more you work with it. If it were a RAW file, then no problem...
Anyway, I took a few minutes and cleaned it up a bit but didn't do anything with layers, so a lot of the boats are gone. This is only an example of course, but if you took your time with CS3, I think you'd find that anything is possible. I just wasn't willing to spend very long on this since I don't know what you need or want it for.
Also, I'm not sure of whether the hill tops in the background are smudged with your prints, or if those are low hanging clouds or fog ? Because it's so hard to differentiate those things, it is very distracting. I personally wouldn't even save the image, but would instead try and retake it if possible.
Doug