Can Canon Dust Delete Data be used in Lightroom or Photoshop?

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I’m seeing sensor dust spots on bright scenes and skies, and a blower hasn’t removed them. My Canon DSLR has a "Dust Delete Data" feature that, according to the manual, works with Canon Digital Photo Professional. I don’t use Canon’s software in my workflow, so I’d like to know whether Lightroom or Photoshop/Adobe Camera Raw can read and apply this data automatically.

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Dust delete data is Canon proprietary, and no third party software that I'm aware of interprets it. I can say for certain that Lightroom/ACR, Aperture and Capture One are all blissfully ignorant of this data.

I'm sure everyone making RAW image processing software would love Canon to open up a bit more on these details but so far, it's still not public information as far as I know.

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No—Canon’s Dust Delete Data is proprietary and, based on the community answers, Lightroom, Adobe Camera Raw/Photoshop, Aperture, and Capture One do not use it. In practice, it’s meant for Canon’s own Digital Photo Professional.

If you want to stay in Lightroom, the practical workaround is manual cleanup with the Spot Removal/Healing tool on the images where the dust is visible. That’s often the simplest approach if the spots only appear in certain photos, such as skies or HDR images with bright, even tones.

If dust is showing up frequently and a blower isn’t helping, the particles may be stuck to the sensor filter, in which case a proper sensor cleaning may be needed.

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