Need help removing dust/speckles from old pictures...

[aphex]

Came across a huge cache of old pictures of my parents they must have had scanned in a few years back... Decided it would be nice to make a nice photobook at blurb for them...

I was able to clean them up considerably using photoshop, they look excellent, except for one problem. There is significant dust/speckles on a number of them....

Tried using the built in dust/noise remover in PS, didn't work well. Neither did the standalone kodak/fuji application (don't recall who made it). Also, regular noise reduction apps (such as noise ninja/noiseware are a bit too strong handed with their approach to speckles and they loose too much detail in these ones)

Any ideas?

 

[UberNeuman]

Could you post one of the pictures so we can get an idea of how bad this is?

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: UberNeuman
Could you post one of the pictures so we can get an idea of how bad this is?

sure thing, i'll need a min

 

[aphex]

here's a generic example (one of the worst i have): http://www.iiki.org/pics/sample.jpg

 

[Akhen]

Thats just something your going to fix one by one imo

 

[aphex]

http://www.digitalretouch.org/samples.html

Worked pretty well actually, i was surprised...

 

[mrrman]

what a difference in those pics...

 

[Yzzim]

Originally posted by: aphex
http://www.digitalretouch.org/samples.html

Worked pretty well actually, i was surprised...

Before and After pics?

 

[ppdes]

Modern scanners use infrared to help remove dusts and scratches. If you can find the originals you might be better off rescanning them.