I was perusing my archives the other day and came across this gem. It’s one that I took at Elowah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. I remember that it was a rainy day and I was having a hard time keeping the rain spots from my lens.
I’m sure that I decided not to process this shot because I didn’t have the tooks or the skill to remove them in a way that wouldn’t show. I looked at this photo and decided to try a more creative approach to repairing the damage the the raindrops had caused. I looked hard at the other areas inthe photo and was unable to find any more raindrops in the image. I think that I lucked out.
I decided that I would process the shot and the first thing that I did was to address the waterfall by creating a copy of the photo and applying a motion blur to iut and them ,asking that area into the photo again. It worked quite well.
This video will also help those who have wondered how layering and masking works.
Go check out the video and let me know if this was any help to you. Repairing Severe Water Spots In a Waterfall in Photoshop.