And including an automation routine in a future version of Photoshop to save and repeat those dust busting moves from one image to the next in a series (given that the dust is always in the same place and the background is often the same - or at least similar - from one shot to the next) would save a lot of us a lot of time.
In the meantime I've reverted to this old dust removal technique - I don't know who invented it, but it's very good:
Dust and Scratches Filter, Radius: 11, Threshold 11.
Save Snapshot and click the square to the left of that snapshot to bring up the History Brush icon and make that snapshot the 'History state'
Undo: Ctrl+Z [Cmd+Z]
Use History Brush (Y) in 'Lighten' mode to knock out the dark dust spots while ignoring surrounding pixels.
I've made an Action and keyboard shortcut to do the above (not including the spotting, alas). If anyone knows a better way, please let us know.
Regards
Richard Lewisohn
http://www.lewisohn.co.uk
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