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Company: LaserSoft Imaging

Price: $99

Rating:

Hot: Very fast on small, easily recognized

scratches; doesn’t affect sharpness

Not: Only good for preparing fixes on images

with lots of detail

The SRDx (Smart Removal of Defects) plug-in for Photoshop CC

running on Mac OS 10.10 or higher is designed to fix damaged

photos. SRDx works with all B&W, Kodachrome, and color images

and is optimized for scratches and dust. It’s claimed to be better

than Photoshop’s Dust & Scratches filter, and it should save time,

but will it?

Scanned photos, slides, and negatives are rarely free of scratches

and dust particles. In Photoshop CC you can repair these by using

the filter or one of its healing brushes. LaserSoft Imaging claims

speed advantages over Photoshop’s built-in tools, as well as better

results because of the way SRDx works.

The SRDx plug-in has only a few controls, including sliders

to set Detection Intensity and Tile Size (the surrounding area).

There’s also the ability to create masks so you can rule out areas

from detection.

The plug-in is optimized to fix damage without affecting sharp-

ness. Blemishes are removed by taking the surrounding image

Scratch-and-Dust Removal Plug-In

LaserSoft

Imaging SRDx

Review by Erik Vlietinck