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A word of warning to anyone contemplating purchase of the Lasersoft Photoshop plugin in SRDi. It does not work and I have been trying to get help from Lasersoft to get it working. Moreover, they have refused to refund the fee I paid and am legally entitled to. Court action to recover my costs are imminent. I will update as required to keep you informed.
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Gerald Wallace

Lasersoft Imaging has provided their Silverfast customers the opportunity to purchase ("sales@picture - plug-ins.com") an Adobe Photoshop plug-in for dust and scratch removal - $29 (Euro/$). Has any one tried this software? I currently use adobe photoshop cs6.

See my post re this. It simply does not work so I cannot in all conscience recommend it as a purchase. Later today I will be in touch with Lasersoft for one last try (attempt 4 or 5) to get the issue resolved. I will update this thread once I have done that.

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I purchased the plugin and it has worked fine for me so far. I am using Phototshop CC 2015.5.1 If someone wants to post an example image to try out, I could run it though and past the result. I do believe the settings that are needed for a good result are highly dependent on the scan resolution. I would not be surprised at extremely high scan resolution (were the defects were a very large number of pixels in size) that getting a good correction may be difficult. Seemed to work pretty well for me after trying different settings and getting used to the controls.
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It takes some pretty smart AI to distinguish, say, a small bird in flight from a speck of dust, or any small line from a scratch.

 

This sort of automatic blemish removal is doomed to failure IMO. Like automatic "click and pop" removal on audio files, which almost invariably mistakes finger clicks or drumstick ticks for a vinyl scratch - even though they have quite obviously visibly different waveforms.

 

If there's no IR channel on your scanner, then you might as well forget automatic blemish removal.

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