Manually Erasing Dust (Repair Function)
You can erase dust spots in an image by selecting them one by one.
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In the main window, select the image you want to erase dust spots.
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Click the [Stamp] button.
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The copy stamp window appears.
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When the image has redrawn itself, double-click the point from where dust is to be erased.
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The display changes to 100% view.
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The display position can be changed by dragging.
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Click the button that matches the dust spot to be erased.
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If the dust spot is dark in color, click the [ ] button, and if the dust spot is light in color, click the [ ] button.
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When you move the cursor over the image, the dust erasure range appears as [ ].
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Place the dust spot to be erased within the [ ] and click.
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The dust spot within the [ ] is erased.
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Click on another part of the image to continue erasing dust spots in the image.
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To erase dust in another part of the image, either right-click with the mouse, or click the button clicked in step 4 again to cancel dust erasure processing and perform the operation again from step 3.
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When the dust spot cannot be erased, [ ] is displayed.
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Click the [OK] button to return to the main window.
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The [ ] mark is displayed on an image from which dust spots have been erased.
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- Click several times when dust spots are not erased completely
- Where unwanted dust spots are not erased even after performing step 5 once, they may be erased completely when you click several times.
- Mainly spots of dust can be erased with the repair function
- Spots of dust can be erased with the repair function. You may be unable to erase lines of dust. In this case, use the copy stamp function.
- The dust-erased image can be reverted to its original condition at any time
- A dust-erased image is displayed or printed as a dust-erased image. However, since the dust on the image is not actually erased, you can always revert to the original image by clicking the [Undo] button in the copy stamp window or performing the "Re-Editing an Image" procedure.
- Check dust erasure in the copy stamp window
- Check dust erasure in the copy stamp window. Images before dust erasure are displayed in other windows and you will be unable to check them.
- Printing dust-erased images
- You can print as a dust-erased image by printing it in DPP.
- The image becomes a dust-erased image when saved as a separate image
- The dust-erased JPEG or TIFF image actually becomes a dust-erased image when saved as a separate image. (Saving Editing Content to an Image)
- Checking the dust erased spots
- After step 5, you can display and check in detail the erased dust spots one by one by pressing the <Shift> + <F> keys. (Press the <Shift> + <B> keys to return to the previous dust spot.)
- Canceling a specified erased dust spot only
- After step 5, you can press the <Shift> + <F> keys or the <Shift> + <B> keys to display the erased dust spot, and then press the <Shift> + <Del> keys to cancel only the erased dust spot displayed.
- Switch between full screen display/normal screen display using shortcut keys
- You can also switch between full screen display/normal screen display by pressing the <Alt> + <Enter> keys.
- Applying the dust erasure result to another image
- You can apply dust erasure to the same place in another image by clicking the [Copy] button to copy the dust erasure results and then displaying the other image to which you want to apply the results and clicking the [Paste] button. To apply dust erasure to the same place in several other images, you can efficiently erase dust spots by clicking the images while holding down the <Ctrl> key in the main window, or, by selecting multiple images by clicking the first image and then clicking the last image while holding down the <Shift> key, and then displaying the copy stamp window.
Erasing Unwanted Parts of an Image (Copy Stamp Function)
You can correct an image by pasting a section copied from another part of the image to an unwanted part of the image.
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Follow steps 1 to 3 in "Manually Erasing Dust (Repair Function)".
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Specify the section to be copied.
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Click on the section that is to be the copy source while holding down the <Alt> key.
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To change the section that is to be the copy source, perform the operation above again.
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To fix the position of the copy source, checkmark [Fix Copy Source position].
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Correct the image.
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Click or drag on the section you want to correct on the image. [ ] in the window indicates the copy source and [ ] indicates the copy destination.
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The copied image is pasted in the position to which it was dragged.
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For [Pen type], you can select from [Brush] (the pasted image's borders simulate a brush) and [Pencil] (the pasted image's borders are sharp).
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Click the [OK] button to return to the main window.
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The [ ] mark is displayed on a corrected image.
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