Easy way to remove dust and oil from your photos using Lightroom presets

Dave_W

The Dude
Here's a quick and easy way to remove dust and oil from your photos without going through the trouble of a wet clean.

1 - With your lens on manual, reduce your aperture to its smallest point. Then take an out of focus shot of a clear blue patch of the sky

2 - Load the image into Lightroom and turn up the exposure and crank up the contrast. This should reveal all your spot. Then using the spot remover, remove all the spots you can find.

3 - Once you are finished removing all the spots save this as a "Custom Preset"

Now simply apply this preset to all your photographs taken after this and all your spots will be gone. There may be a spot or two that looks off due to where it is relative to the background so you may need to adjust a spot or two. But for the most part, you'll have them all covered.
 
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