Improving Your Images Step 4: Removing dead pixels

In the last blog we removed the noise in an image and opened the resultant raw image into the main Photoshop software. Since the raw image was in 16 bit, we need to make sure we work in 16 bit in the main software. To do this we click on the "image" tab, select "mode" then choose the 16 bit option.

Photoshop CS6 has a very cool feature. It will remove dead pixels quickly and easily without cloning, cutting, pasting and so on.

The steps are best seen.
Select the lasso button, enclose the dead pixel, right click to see options, choose the "fill" option, then click ok. Notice that the default is "content aware".

Hey presto - the dead pixel is removed and replaced with nearby pixels. Now we rinse and repeat to clean up all of the dead pixels. I also circled the boat located in the bottom right corner of the image to remove it. The content aware feature filled in the space beautifully.

In the next blog, we will go through a quick trick to make the image "pop".



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