Removing Specks and Holes from a Selection

To fill the specks and holes that may occur in a selection. The Remove Specks and Holes dialog removes specks and holes from the area that you define in square pixels. For example: If you have an area of specs and/or holes in an image that is 20 pixels wide by 20 pixels high, then in the number of pixels field, enter 5 and a scale factor of 100. Because 20 x 20 = 400, and 5 X 100 = 500 then all specs and/or holes in a pixel area less than 500 will be removed.

To remove holes and specks from a selection:

  1. Choose Selections > Modify > Remove Specks and Holes to open the Remove Specks and Holes dialog.

  2. Do one of the following:

  3. Choose the Remove Specks option to remove only specks from the selection.

  4. Choose the Remove Holes option to remove only holes from the selection.

  5. Choose the Remove Specks and Holes option to remove both specks and holes from the edges of the selection.

Note: In the dialog you can click the Toggle Selection button to change between showing only the selection or showing the selection and the rest of the image.

  1. For the Square area smaller than, enter the number of pixels and the scale factor. Start at low values, and increase them as necessary until the specks and/or holes are removed.

  2. Click OK. The holes and specks in the selection are removed.

Related Topics

Adding to a Selections

Adding or Removing a Color from a Selection

Changing the Feathering of a Selection

Cleaning up the Edges of a Selection

Modifying the Select Selection Borders

Recovering the Anti-alias

Shape Based Anti-aliasing

Smoothing the Boundary of a Selection

Subtracting from a Selection