Hi Gang, I've been working to eliminate spots, scratches, and imperfections on an old B&W negative that has not been treated well. Here's a sample section: http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/sample.jpg (50K file size)
Thus far I've been fiddling with this using the clone tool, healing brush, and patch tool, and working sometimes on large areas and some very small spots of only two or three pixels in size. I'm wondering if there's a faster way to clean up this neg (considering there's lots of fine detail in many areas that needs to be preserved) than going in and using these spotting techniques. Thanks! Shel