Any Photoshop gurus able to help me remove some lens flare/highlighted dust?

[TerryMathews]

Speck of dust or lens flare has damaged about a dozen of our wedding pictures, it's in the same spot in all of the pictures.

First off, is it possible to create a layer or mask in Photoshop that will apply the same correction to all the affected photos or does each one have to be done individually.

Here are the affected photos. They are exactly the way we received them from the photographer. Yes, I wish she'd shot in RAW also. Anyway, if someone that is good at this can PM me and walk me through fixing it or send me a PSD with a correction layer that would be awesome!

 

[rivan]

There's not going to be a quick solution that works for all the images. I only downloaded/looked closely at one, but assume the rest were shot in a similar way.

That said, I got a fair starting point by:
?Duplicate the original layer
?Set duplicate layer to overlay (soft light may work better on other images)
?Mask off the non-affected portion of the image (faster in this case to fill the mask with black, then paint in the affected area)
?Add a color balance adjustment layer clipped to the overlay layer to adjust out the yellow from the lens flare

I'd recommend tackling the color noise and softness issues before taking any steps on the lens flare.

Edit: No, the screenshot's not supposed to look final. I'm just pointing you in one of several potential right directions. The overall look in the screenshot is too harsh, but I expect some of that will take care of itself once you handle the color noise. Also, the skin tones may require an adjustment of their own, apart from the rest of the image.

 

[episodic]

I fixed 1 for you, yhpm