Sounds useful, thanks. (Thought I'd give it a try in LR - but has to be
done in PS/ACR and not in LR because dehazing is not available in the
Adjustment Brush effects.)
Jez
On 31 August 2015 at 14:58, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Perhaps this has already been discovered by someone else but, if so, I'm
> unaware of it.
>
> A couple of days ago I was presented with a flash photo of a couple taken
> at a fairly dark restaurant by a person across the table from them. The
> flash took a pretty bad toll on the couple's faces and eyes.
>
> Both people were wearing glasses and the flash created a lot of glare over
> the eyes. I was able to recover the eyes by methods I'm long familiar with
> (healing brush and patch tools along with moving and reversing all or part
> of an unaffected eye to replace the affected eye).
>
> However, the too bright skin of nose, forehead, chin and cheeks is a
> problem of another sort. The affected areas of the skin weren't completely
> blown but clearly needed some work. Also, the amount of work varied
> considerably as the brightness varied across the face.
>
> As I was studying the image trying to figure out how best to fix it it
> suddenly occurred to me that the too bright areas of skin had an appearance
> very much like atmospheric haze... extremely bright but with detail still
> visible underneath.
>
> To fix it I added a second layer and hit the top layer with the ACR
> dehazing tool. (Thanks, Moose, for teaching me to use it as a filter). Of
> course the dehazing tool affected the entire layer so I added a mask,
> painted the mask black to display the image underneath and then used a
> white paintbrush at medium opacity to gradually recover the dehazed parts
> of the image that needed it. It turned out great. Incidentally, I did not
> completely remove the bright areas on the face but merely toned them down
> dramatically. It still looks like a flash picture (as it should) but one
> that was done well.
>
> Unfortunately, for personal reasons related to those in the picture, I'm
> not at liberty to show you the images.
>
> Anyhow, just take it on my word that the process works. I suspect there
> may be many other instances where overexposure has taken a toll on parts of
> an image and the same technique would apply.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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