Spot removal workflow

Hi
Just found out the hard way that if you have spot removal to be done, best its done sooner rather than later, specifically when creating snapshots.
I failed to spot remove on one image about 10 spots at the beginning. And thus, upon doing so to one snapshot realised this was not applied to all snapshots.
I had the choice of individually spot removing for all 7 snapshots or copying and pasting that setting to each. Obviously, the later was easier but still a little frustrating to do for 7 snapshots.
Might be nice if, no matter where in your workflow you are, if spot removal is done then this is automatically applied to all snapshots of that image.
Cheers
brad

The idea of snap shots is that you can go back in time to a previous stage that you know is ok. As you are now editing teh image it can only create a new snap shot.

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