If the scratch or blemish is fairly large or in an area of the image that has a varied color and texture, such as leaves on a tree, you can achieve better results by cloning image areas. Similar to using a filter, you choose the range of pixels necessary to retouch the image, depending on the size of the correction and the area surrounding it. You can also remove imperfections, such as tears, scratch marks, and wrinkles, from an image by blending its textures and colors. For example, if you have a white scratch that is 1 or 2 pixels wide on a dark background, you can set a radius of 2 or 3 pixels and set the contrast threshold higher than if the same scratch were on a light background. The settings you choose depend on the size of the blemish and the area surrounding it. You can set a radius to determine how many pixels are affected by the changes. The filter works by eliminating the contrast between pixels that exceed the contrast threshold you set. You can apply a filter to the entire image, or if an image has one or more scratches in a specific area, you can create a mask around the scratches and apply the filter to the editable areas. To remove imperfections from an image by blending textures and colorsĬorel PHOTO-PAINT provides several different ways to improve the appearance of an image that has small dust and scratch marks.
To remove scratch marks from part of an image
To remove small dust and scratch marks throughout an image