: Photoshop: How do I clean up dirt around a high contrast edge? One of my recent photographs was complicated by reality -- specifically by dirt collecting around the mullions of a skylight I

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One of my recent photographs was complicated by reality -- specifically by dirt collecting around the mullions of a skylight I was shooting:



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There's enough of it to be distracting and I want to get rid of it. There's also a fair bit of chromatic aberration I couldn't get rid of in Lr. Because of the grey colour of the mullions, I can't select by colour range on the dirt without also selecting some of the window I want to keep, and because of the fringing, I also can't select all the dirt I want to. It's narrow and unevenly spaced which makes magic wand/quick select a total pain.

The only other way I can think of would be to just paint over it, but that would take forever. What would be the best way to accomplish this?

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