Finding a Hot Pixel

On one of my recent istock uploads there was a hot pixel. It took awhile to locate the area on a photograph as detailed as the one shown below.

The best method I found to detect the hot pixel was to use the levels in photoshop. Bring up the low level slider to the middle. Hope this helps anyone else with this issue.

Not sure if this was technically a hot pixel as its larger than a single pixel, more like a collection of them – but this method would still work on a single pixel.

Tags: Hot pixels, istockphoto

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