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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 182917" data-attributes="member: 9240">It's purely a Lightroom technique.&nbsp; Take a reference photo and use the Spot Removal tool on the reference.&nbsp; Lightroom tracks each adjustment and stores them with the photo.&nbsp; Another photo taken from the exact same place, orientation and focal length will have the stage is in the exact same place in the photo.&nbsp; In the Library module, click on the reference photo, then hold the Alt (Command on a Mac) key down and click on the photo you want to remove the dust from to highlight both of them.&nbsp; Now go to the Develop module and use the left/right arrow keys to display the reference photo.&nbsp; Now click on the Sync... button at the bottom right to bring up the settings pop-up.&nbsp; Uncheck everything but the &quot;Spot Removal&quot; and click Synchronize.&nbsp; All of the dust removal settings from the reference photo will be applied to the new photo.&nbsp; If you apply lens correction or other settings universally you can synchronize them as well at this time.&nbsp; And if you have multiple photos to do from the same orientation and focal length you can open all of them at once and synchronize the baseline Spot Removal adjustments to all of them at once.Once you're done with that, you then need to review each photo individually to see if any of the baseline adjustments now obscure your subject rather than dust, or overlay dust with part of a person instead of blank stage.&nbsp; It's still a manual process, but at least you have a head start on it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 182917, member: 9240"] It's purely a Lightroom technique. Take a reference photo and use the Spot Removal tool on the reference. Lightroom tracks each adjustment and stores them with the photo. Another photo taken from the exact same place, orientation and focal length will have the stage is in the exact same place in the photo. In the Library module, click on the reference photo, then hold the Alt (Command on a Mac) key down and click on the photo you want to remove the dust from to highlight both of them. Now go to the Develop module and use the left/right arrow keys to display the reference photo. Now click on the Sync... button at the bottom right to bring up the settings pop-up. Uncheck everything but the "Spot Removal" and click Synchronize. All of the dust removal settings from the reference photo will be applied to the new photo. If you apply lens correction or other settings universally you can synchronize them as well at this time. And if you have multiple photos to do from the same orientation and focal length you can open all of them at once and synchronize the baseline Spot Removal adjustments to all of them at once. Once you're done with that, you then need to review each photo individually to see if any of the baseline adjustments now obscure your subject rather than dust, or overlay dust with part of a person instead of blank stage. It's still a manual process, but at least you have a head start on it. [/QUOTE]

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