White Spots on Digital Pictures

samsyerman

My daughter has a small Fuji Digital Camera. On a recent set of pictures I noticed that when they were loaded on to the PC they had white spots and red eye. My son was able to edit the red eye but could do nothing about the white spots.

I called in to Jessops and they suggested it might be dust on the sensor, and said it would cost over £100 to correct this. They also said that if I used photoshop I might be able to edit them out.

Has anybody any advice.

Many thanks

samsyerman

f1charlie

Are the spots always in the same place on the photos?

Dust on the sensor is more common on DSLRs as the sensor is exposed when the lens is removed. It might be dead pixels on the sensor, which I don't think you can do anything (cheaply) about.

Is the lens clean?

Try Photoplus (free version) and use the clone tool to get rid of the white spots.

Andy_Millman

You mean orbs aka ghost spots? I've seen these on "Most haunted" and other paranormal investigation programmes.

Here is a good page I came across on the issue:

http://www.vanwalree.com/optics/dof.html#ghosts

Not surprisingly the above article poo poo's the notion that there could be a paranormal explanation behind these orbs, but I'm not so sure ...

More on orbs here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orb_%28paranormal%29

EvilMonkey

Could be a number of things really, a little more info (or ideally the picture in question slung up online somewhere) is what's needed. Like Charlie says, are the spots in all photo's? in the same position? If not are they associated with anything? Any "type" of photo's (zoomed in, bright day, evening, night etc.)

They could also be blown highlights (unlikely to be mistaken for dust though) or noise if the photo was taken at a high ISO???


E.M.