Dust Tutorial: How to Dodge your way free of Dust
After an eternity of silence on my half lol, a new entry, and it's even useful :D
So, sth I've noticed is that many editors and cleaners struggle with the dust on some pages (says the editor with exactly 3 prjts under her belt lol).
Dust really is the devil, you either risk damaging your gray tones by leveling the shit out of it, or having to manually white it out with the paintbrush which makes me wanna cry just thinking about it.
So let me show you one way to get rid of dust while still avoiding lots of pain and getting rid of dust quickly and efficiently: The Dodge Tool (also cool for lots of other things but those are other tutorials other ppl can write :D)
Here's our page:
Depending on how bright your screen is/your resolution you might actually already some of the dust, but on my bright screen at first it looks all fine and dandy and happy making :D, but just to make sure, we are going to use the adjustment layer tool, which let's you level on a separate layer, so you don't actually level the layer you'll edit on :D. The adjustment tool can be found on the layer-tab at the bottom:
the Adjustment-tool is the circle in the middle with one half black and one half white.
Now to see it in action:
If you then click 'Levels...' you'll get a new tab/window-thing for the adjustment-layer, which looks like your leveling window (naturally).
And here the only thing we're interested in, is dragging the black-level pyramid(or the grey pyramid, the end results are almost the same :D) all the way to the right, so your image looks like sth this (depending on your scanner/leveling, the dust might not be as bad as here):
You already see how much dust there actually is on this page, and of course it cannot stay that way, so we'll use the dodge tool as indicated above. It is very important, that you set the Range to 'Highlights' and the Exposure to around 10 % or less, so you don't do to much damage to your scan and grey tones. Now you can set your brush size as you need it, zoom in, so you get every tiny spec and basically go wild. The Dodge tool is very forgiving, even if you 'paint' over a line it doesn't immediately make it disappear.
This does NOT mean however, that you can just paint over lines as you want to, since it does affect the lines, we just cannot percieve it. So be careful around lines, and do not draw over them more than once. If there is a particularly stubborn dust-spec that just doesn't go away after going over it once or twice, just paint it white with the paintbrush.
Anyway see my results after just a few dodge-tool strokes:
Seeing it like this is nothing like the joy of seeing stupid dustspecs disappear with a single stroke of the Dodge-tool :DDD.
Now after a few moments of using the Dodge-Tool, this is how a properly dust-free page is supposed to look :D!
And then you have the endresult, with the adjustment-layer gotten rid of (turned off visibility or deleted alltogether, your choice ^^).
So there you have it, this is how I get rid of the dust on a page with a method (taught to me by the lovely Cookie <3333333) that doesn't damage the page too much.
Tell me, what do you think, what do you do to get rid of dust, any other suggestions??
So, sth I've noticed is that many editors and cleaners struggle with the dust on some pages (says the editor with exactly 3 prjts under her belt lol).
Dust really is the devil, you either risk damaging your gray tones by leveling the shit out of it, or having to manually white it out with the paintbrush which makes me wanna cry just thinking about it.
So let me show you one way to get rid of dust while still avoiding lots of pain and getting rid of dust quickly and efficiently: The Dodge Tool (also cool for lots of other things but those are other tutorials other ppl can write :D)
Here's our page:
Depending on how bright your screen is/your resolution you might actually already some of the dust, but on my bright screen at first it looks all fine and dandy and happy making :D, but just to make sure, we are going to use the adjustment layer tool, which let's you level on a separate layer, so you don't actually level the layer you'll edit on :D. The adjustment tool can be found on the layer-tab at the bottom:
the Adjustment-tool is the circle in the middle with one half black and one half white.
Now to see it in action:
If you then click 'Levels...' you'll get a new tab/window-thing for the adjustment-layer, which looks like your leveling window (naturally).
And here the only thing we're interested in, is dragging the black-level pyramid(or the grey pyramid, the end results are almost the same :D) all the way to the right, so your image looks like sth this (depending on your scanner/leveling, the dust might not be as bad as here):
You already see how much dust there actually is on this page, and of course it cannot stay that way, so we'll use the dodge tool as indicated above. It is very important, that you set the Range to 'Highlights' and the Exposure to around 10 % or less, so you don't do to much damage to your scan and grey tones. Now you can set your brush size as you need it, zoom in, so you get every tiny spec and basically go wild. The Dodge tool is very forgiving, even if you 'paint' over a line it doesn't immediately make it disappear.
This does NOT mean however, that you can just paint over lines as you want to, since it does affect the lines, we just cannot percieve it. So be careful around lines, and do not draw over them more than once. If there is a particularly stubborn dust-spec that just doesn't go away after going over it once or twice, just paint it white with the paintbrush.
Anyway see my results after just a few dodge-tool strokes:
Seeing it like this is nothing like the joy of seeing stupid dustspecs disappear with a single stroke of the Dodge-tool :DDD.
Now after a few moments of using the Dodge-Tool, this is how a properly dust-free page is supposed to look :D!
And then you have the endresult, with the adjustment-layer gotten rid of (turned off visibility or deleted alltogether, your choice ^^).
So there you have it, this is how I get rid of the dust on a page with a method (taught to me by the lovely Cookie <3333333) that doesn't damage the page too much.
Tell me, what do you think, what do you do to get rid of dust, any other suggestions??