Little Help Please

[Ziggy]

Like this but not the spots (pollen).

Any suggestions on the best way to remove?

[Shadowman]

You might try Replace Color if you have Elements or Photoshop. You'll really have to zoom in to isolate the specks, just beware if it alters other brights within the image.

[dennybeall]

Lightroom or Photoshop can do the job in a short time. Either the clone stamp or the spot healing brush. It's a manual operation but not hard.
Here's an example with 3 minutes of spot healing. Just with the mouse on the laptop.

[pnodrog]

Just set the clone stamp blend mode to darken and clone from an adjacent suitable toned area.

[gregj1763]

As Denny suggested the spot healing brush in photoshop will give good results

[IzzieK]

But why do you want to remove it? It is part of the environment for the butterfly...

[James G]

I'm afraid I'm with Izzie ... why remove the pollen?

If this were a studio/fine art session, (although I can't quite imagine it with the butterfly), I would assume a soft brush might have been used to 'tidy' the flower.

But, given it is a wildlife nature capture of a Large White?, I would argue that removing the pollen is unnecessary, since it is integral to the authenticity of the capture.

This is an excellent capture, I wish I'd captured it myself. One suggestion though, presuming you see the butterfly (Large White?), as the main focus of the image I would recrop to emphasise the insect, (probably more a letterbox style), but I really would want to retain the beautiful contrast with the colours in the flower. The muted backdrop complements extremely well.!

[DanK]

Very nice capture. I agree--I'd crop a bit. I never remove pollen from my bug shots. I prefer having them au naturel. Just my preference.

[JohnRostron]

I'm with Izzie, James and Dan. The pollen is part of the picture.

John

[Loose Canon]

If you are using Photoshop Jim I could share a couple of techniques with you?

[Ziggy]

Thank you all for the feedback and Denny thanks for taking the time to edit the document.

And I guess I agree with some of you about just leaving it in.

If anyone else stops by would love to get more opinions.

[Ziggy]

If you are using Photoshop Jim I could share a couple of techniques with you?

I user Zoner Terry.

[Loose Canon]

Okay Jim.

I don't know anything about Zoner so I can be less than zero help!

Sorry.

[Ziggy]

Okay Jim.

I don't know anything about Zoner so I can be less than zero help!

Sorry.

I don't know that much about Zoner, just enough to get by.

Do appreciate the offer Terry.

[JHzlwd]

I use Corel "Paintshop Pro" (PSP) in preference to Photoshop (PS). PSP has a nice parameterless (single click) "Despeckle" feature which worked almost perfectly on your image without visible compromise of image quality. A couple of larger specks remained but were easily dealt with using the clone brush in just a few seconds. For more control, PSP has a "Salt and Pepper" filter where you can choose size of specks and sensitivity. This is better for more difficult cases and also worked well with your image.

I'd be surprised of PS didn't have similar facilities.The problem with all these products is that they have so many features in so many menus you can go a long time without finding them all even if you are otherwise proficient.

Best wishes

[billtils]

Love the image, and agree with the others who say "keep the pollen" - this is a "Nature" shot and the pollen are an integral part of the entity that you are capturing in the photograph. Don't know about any of the Adobe products but Aperture and Affinity Photo have several tools that would clean up things like that, the simplest being a spot healing brush.

[JBW]

Thank you all for the feedback and Denny thanks for taking the time to edit the document.

And I guess I agree with some of you about just leaving it in.

If anyone else stops by would love to get more opinions.

leave the pollen change the crop (just a quick and dirty adjustment to give the idea)

[dennybeall]

I use Corel "Paintshop Pro" (PSP) in preference to Photoshop (PS). PSP has a nice parameterless (single click) "Despeckle" feature which worked almost perfectly on your image without visible compromise of image quality. A couple of larger specks remained but were easily dealt with using the clone brush in just a few seconds. For more control, PSP has a "Salt and Pepper" filter where you can choose size of specks and sensitivity. This is better for more difficult cases and also worked well with your image.

I'd be surprised of PS didn't have similar facilities.The problem with all these products is that they have so many features in so many menus you can go a long time without finding them all even if you are otherwise proficient.

Best wishes

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