No, removing stuff is almost always a multi step process if you want to do a good job. Even removing a relatively simple power line or vapor trail in a clear sky might need a bit of extra work for example (the gradient might be slightly off in the fixed part).
The brunt of the removal in the first shot was done using GIMP’s resynthesizer tool, which is a rather powerful tool, but it doesn’t do a perfect job. I had to go in with the Clone tool and the Healing tool to tidy up the trees and fix the sky gradient in some places.
The second shot was done with a combination of Krita’s Smart patch (“healing”) and Clone tool (in that order).
Depending on the situation you might also need to slightly blur/sharpen some of the parts that are “fixed” by the crop/heal/resynthesizer/patch tool(s) or even paint-in the missing parts yourself (some basic retouching).
Yeah, the amount of different interpretations of both my contributions is rather impressive. Some very nice ones indeed and that even though many don’t come close to what it is I saw that morning… I love to see all these visions.
This is a really nice place to walk and enjoy the surroundings and watch nature do its thing. This particular area isn’t all that big, about a square kilometre (maybe 2) but it is situated just right.
There are plans to start building here though Protests and petition are ongoing, but I probably know how this will end up in the longer rub. My town doesn’t have anywhere to go, we’re completely surrounded by Delft, Den Haag, Voorburg and a few other towns.
BTW: This was a few days later. Roughly the same spot as my 30 min later shot above, 10 steps or so back and 30 degrees to the right:
I’ve been studying your use of unbreak input profile with multiply. People are using multiply or other blend modes with many modules now, and I have no idea how to describe the effects so as to distinguish between using one or another. Only trial and error until one became proficient in choosing, I guess. The effect of unbreak w/o multiply is so drastic, how then did you imagine it would produce the effect it did with multiply?
That one is on the sensor. There are actually 2 spots, one of those isn’t all that visible in this shot.
I really love this compact camera, rather powerful for its size, but it has a fixed zoom lens. Camera’s that have this setup make it basically a dust pump, especially when you turn it on/off and the lens fully extends/retracts. It’s almost 2 years old now, I use it rain or shine and it is holding up rather well.
I do need to have it cleaned one of these days though. Can’t do that myself, like I do with my “real” camera. It is all but impossible to get to the sensor to clean it yourself.
Can’t remember whether I mentioned it, have you tried a vacuum cleaner attached to a rolled up magazine around the barrel of the lens. Had to repeat a few times but worked for me. Perhaps this dirt is more stubborn…
Just tried something very similar and that seems to have done the trick.
First try made it worse (I’m sure that there was more dust present then the 2 visible specs on the sensor). For the second try I decided to remove the battery and memory card (more openings for the air flow), the third try was with everything in its proper place again and with the lens fully extended.
Made a few test shots and all seems to be clean. Time will tell if I just moved the dust to a temporary new location or actually removed it from the housing.