It's Dust and Scratch. It has to be applied through the menu, though—not with the Repeat shortcut (CTRL-F). It will not work with CRTL-F. Repeatedly applying the Dust and Scratch effect through the menu causes a gradual smoothing of the outlines as I described. I'm not sure where the Remove Noise effect came in, but perhaps to remove the smallest "debris" after Posterizing an image. The shortcut keys in X5 are a mess, with multiple menu items sharing the same shortcut (Combine Channels and Corection both use "O"). I remember doing something to fix this once upon a time, but cannot remember the process now. I've Googled it without success. I bring this up, because I used to use the shortcut keys to repeatedly apply the effect. The sharing of shortcut keys between menu items now makes this bothersome.
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