I don’t claim to be an amazing photographer. I’ve taken some good photos and I’ve taken some alright photos, but I’m always still learning. But the one thing that I can never remember to do it clean my lens during a shoot. And because a lot of my shoots take place on windy beaches:
or in or around dusty horseriding arenas:
…this is often a big problem.
Of course, I always remember as soon as I open the image in Lightroom, and that’s when I start weeping about all the post-processing I’m going to have to do to remove the seventy-five dust spots per image.
I can be done. It is done. But wow, it’s a proper shlep.
Not any more.
The AI-powered Dust Removal feature in the Distraction Removal panel automatically detects and removes dust spots in a photo, created by dust on your camera’s sensor or lens.
I don’t like using AI on my photos (and so I don’t), but this basically just automates a task I was going to do manually anyway, so I think it’s ok.
And having given it a go, I now think it’s much better than ok.
Incredible. Three clicks and the whole lot sorted.
Not a fan of AI taking over every aspect of our daily lives, but actually quite a big fan of it doing this sort of thing for me, thank you very much.