Remove Scratches Without Digital ICE
What to do when your scanner has no infrared channel: batch dust removal on any film, including silver B&W and Kodachrome where infrared can’t help, and a practical workflow for repairing scratches by hand.
What to do when your scanner has no infrared channel: batch dust removal on any film, including silver B&W and Kodachrome where infrared can’t help, and a practical workflow for repairing scratches by hand.
The built-in Conservative profile plus your own saved profiles. Snapshot every detection setting and recall it in one click.
The five DustMagic view modes — Original, Detection Overlay, Mask Only, Inpainted, and Split View — and how to use them while tuning a folder.
Quick reference to every control in DustMagic — Profiles, dark or light dust (Film Type), Defect Size, Sensitivity, Advanced Settings, and Detection Resolution.
Install the bundled Lightroom Classic plugin from inside DustMagic, then send photos for cleaning straight from Lightroom’s Plug-in Extras menu.
Use DustMagic in Photoshop through its included script, and with any other editor, such as Capture One, through TIFF files.
DustMagic writes cleaned files to a `cleaned/` subfolder — originals are never modified. Review detection masks in-app with overlay, Mask Only, and Split View.
Clean all open images in one go, record a DustMagic action for File → Automate → Batch, and choose between keeping layers and flattening, plus how Photoshop compares with the DustMagic app for speed.
Step-by-step workflow for a folder of DSLR-scanned film with one image deserving manual touch-up via the Smart Brush Tool.
Scaling DustMagic from one folder to thousands of images. Tune cheap with Detection Resolution, batch big in parallel, verify smart with Mask Only.