Manually Erasing Dust (Repair Function)

Digital Photo Professional

Manually Erasing Dust (Repair Function)

You can erase dust spots in an image by selecting them one by one.

  1. In the main window, select the image you want to erase dust spots.

  2. Click the [Stamp] button.

  3. When the image has redrawn itself, double-click the point from where dust is to be erased.

    • The display changes to 100% view.

    • The display position can be changed by dragging.

  4. Click the button that matches the dust spot to be erased.


    • If the dust spot is dark in color, click the [ ] button, and if the dust spot is light in color, click the [ ] button.

    • When you move the cursor over the image, the dust erasure range appears as [ ].

  5. Place the dust spot to be erased within the [ ] and click.


    • The dust spot within the [ ] is erased.

    • Click on another part of the image to continue erasing dust spots in the image.

    • 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.

    • When the dust spot cannot be erased, [ ] is displayed.

  6. Click the [OK] button to return to the main window.


    • The [ ] mark is displayed on an image from which dust spots have been erased.


Additional information
  • 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)

Useful functions of the copy stamp window
  • 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.
For images shot with ISO speed range expansion set, noticeable noise may make it difficult to view dust spots in the copy stamp window, so using this function is not recommended.

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.

  1. Follow steps 1 to 3 in "Manually Erasing Dust (Repair Function)".

  2. Specify the section to be copied.

    • Click on the section that is to be the copy source while holding down the <Alt> key.

    • To change the section that is to be the copy source, perform the operation above again.

    • To fix the position of the copy source, checkmark [Fix Copy Source position].

  3. Correct the image.

    • 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.

    • The copied image is pasted in the position to which it was dragged.

    • 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).

  4. Click the [OK] button to return to the main window.

    • The [ ] mark is displayed on a corrected image.