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Need to remove dust/scratch lines from several thousand scanned photo files (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by The_Establishment_@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Hello - I'm hoping this sub can help me out

I recently scanned about 10,000 old family photos and a few thousand of them have a faint line over them from dust being stuck in the scanner. I did my best to clean it during the scanning process but couldn't always see when it was happening

Anyway I'm looking for suggestions on how best to mass-edit (remove dust, remove scratches, restore/enhance) these photos to clean them up. I really don't want to re-scan them for various reasons...

Ideally it would be something like the MyHeritage enhance photo feature but for batches of photos at one time. Then I could review the enhanced photo copies and choose whether or not to save them over the originals. Thanks for any help in advance!

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[–] csl512@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

What's your budget?

[–] ado-zii@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Maybe you should try an AI tool and get the paid version if you have so many images:
Try Auto-Remove Scratches https://neural.love/old-photo-restore
https://vanceai.com/old-photo-restoration/

[–] Happy_Bird_4096@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

If the dust is in the same spot on all of the pictures you can create a heal mask in Lightroom, and apply it to all images.