Faster way?

[khawley]

Hi everyone, I am just starting work on this picture...it is streaked with 100s of little yellow spots.  I have started cleaning them up with the clone stamp or healing brush but its time consuming and I have to be really careful not to change the underlying picture.  As I am doing this it occurs to me that  there must be a faster more efficient way...any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks
Kris

the pic -

[khawley]

Actually you can see the spots better in this one post colour correction

[Tori803]

Most of the approaches for dust and scratch reduction will introduce some blur in the image and result in a different sort of blemish (streaks instead of spots, for instance). You could spend hours trying different approaches and then decide they just don't work.

Often the tedious one-spot-at-a-time yields a better result and ends up costing less time. But if you want to try something else, here's a link http://www.digitalretouch.org/samples.html to one approach.