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Re: [OM] A new use for Photoshop's de-haze tool

Subject: Re: [OM] A new use for Photoshop's de-haze tool
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:55:14 +0100
That sounds rather good, Chuck, thanks.

Chris

> On 31 Aug 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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