My most recent article is now up over on the PhotoCascadia blog. Dust spots are a constant thorn in the side of the digital slr photographer. It seems that no amount of cleaning and care in changing lenses ever fully keeps dust from sneaking back on to our sensors. I hate to think how many hours of my life have been spent cloning dust spots off of my images. Even worse than having to remove the spots is to find out that not all of the spots were visible in the unprocessed raw file, but after making contrast, luminosity and clarity adjustments they show up. Depending on the developing techniques used it can be anywhere from difficult to near impossible to get the spots out without artifacts at this late stage in the game. The worst is when they go unnoticed until the image has been enlarged and printed.

In my article I share a very simple technique that can be used to help reveal sneaky dust spots so they can be dealt with right at the beginning of the Photoshop workflow. You can read the article on the PhotoCascadia blog.