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Post-Processing & Retouching

Spot Removal

A raw-processing tool for eliminating sensor dust marks and small blemishes non-destructively.

Measured in px

In depth

Because it operates within the raw converter, each spot remains an editable object that can be moved or deleted later, and — crucially — the whole set can be synchronised across every frame from the same shoot. Since sensor dust appears in the identical position in every file, this turns an hour of retouching into one operation.

Examples in practice

Removing fourteen dust spots on one frame and synchronising the fix across 400 images from the same shoot.