Dust delete help needed using Canon's DPP

Hello
I'm trying to use the dust delete function in Canon's DPP software and, i'm unable to.
I've followed the steps regarding getting the dust delete data on the camera..Canon 40D.
No problems there.
Then I connect the camera to my computer via the usb cable and the DPP program opens.
The image I took (a blank white piece of paper) to get the dust delete data doesn't appear on the memory card to be downloaded into DPP.
So, based on the instructional video I was watching, I thought it some how must download automatically into DPP.
I've searched a few times for the image I took of the blank white piece of paper in the folder section on the left side of the screen in DPP that will allow me to apply the dust delete data function but, I see nothing there.
I then discover that according to the camera manual, the image taken when getting the dust delete data, will not be saved.
So, if the image is not saved, what are you supposed to use to apply the dust delete data to??

This is a link to the video I watched on how to use the dust delete using DPP.
http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=IQjv7l61QoA

Somehow this guy was able to find the "sample" picture he took in gathering the dust data.
No matter what I try, the "apply dust delete data" function in DPP is always greyed out.
Even if I download a picture, and try to use the function, it's greyed out.
I do click on the start stamp tool as mentioned in the video but that makes no difference.
Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?
Seems like this should be a pretty simple process but, it's not turning out that way.

When you have the image you want to correct on the screen. Open the Stamp Tool and then to activate, you have to double click the image. You then choose which tool you want, dark to light, or light to dark. However, you can only remove dust spots, it's not a clone/healing tool.

Another reason to not use that crappy software.

killwilly wrote in post #16243369
When you have the image you want to correct on the screen.

That's the problem, no image appears on the screen because no image is saved to the memory card that can be downloaded and used with the DPP program.
How do you get or, where do you find, the image that was taken to collect the dust data?

maverick75 wrote in post #16243381
Another reason to not use that crappy software.

Thanks, that's very helpful.

Photoshop CS2 is free. Maybe try that to delete the dust...

I've figured it out.
My impression from watching the video was, the guy was using the dust delete data function on the image he took(the blank white piece of paper)to gather the dust data.
Turns out, he wasn't.
You can only use the dust delete data function on images taken after the dust data has been captured in the initial step.
No where in the video does it show him taking another picture after he took the first picture of the blank white piece of paper.

canongear wrote in post #16243648
I've figured it out.
My impression from watching the video was, the guy was using the dust delete data function on the image he took(the blank white piece of paper)to gather the dust data.
Turns out, he wasn't.
You can only use the dust delete data function on images taken after the dust data has been captured in the initial step.
No where in the video does it show him taking another picture after he took the first picture of the blank white piece of paper.

Glad you figured it out! I've never used that function, don't have a camera that uses it, so I couldn't help!

When you "photograph" the white sheet with the DDD function active it does not actually create a photo. In fact the operation can be done with no card in the camera. The camera puts the lens (50 mm or longer and focus at infinity) into f/22 and then examines the image on the sensor for dust spots. The information is stored in the camera's internal memory and written into the metadata of every subsequent photo. In DPP you go to Adjustment > Apply Dust Delete Data and the DDD is read from the metadata and the dust spots removed.