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 08/01/2005 10:36:34 PM · #1
This is a picture that my mother took and it is overexposed. She asked if I could fix it for her and thought I would give it a try, but haven't been able to figure out how to lessen the over exposure. I've tried levels, curves, brightness & contrast, and saturation levels, but none really seemed to lessen the overexposure, they only made the picture brighter or darker. Any ideas? If you want you can take the picture and try to fix it yourself. I would appreciate it. Thanks



edit: to add link. forgot!!! Thanks

Message edited by author 2005-08-01 22:49:54.
 08/01/2005 10:37:11 PM · #2
link?
08/01/2005 10:49:56 PM · #3

It's so underexposed that I can't see it!! :)

08/01/2005 10:58:03 PM · #4
Blown out highlights can't be repaired. Unless you have the new Fuji DSLR. Best you can do is clone in some areas or maybe use a healing brush a bit, but that's it.
 08/01/2005 11:03:09 PM · #5
Originally posted by rscorp:
Blown out highlights can't be repaired. Unless you have the new Fuji DSLR. Best you can do is clone in some areas or maybe use a healing brush a bit, but that's it.

what's the feature on the fuji that can do that?
 08/01/2005 11:11:55 PM · #6
The image you have posted has no information in the highlights. If you can post an "original"...something larger than 640px on the longest side and not compressed...there may be enough there to draw out some details.

OR...you could just not fight it...work with what you have...here's an idea I played with:

08/01/2005 11:13:19 PM · #7
It's a new layer of pixels that are programmed to record areas of the photo that are over-exposed. I don't have the article handy or I'd explain it better, but basically in Raw you're able to bring back detail. The testers even over exposed a shot by three full stops and brought the image back. Pretty neat stuff.
 08/01/2005 11:25:53 PM · #8
Originally posted by KaDi:
The image you have posted has no information in the highlights. If you can post an "original"...something larger than 640px on the longest side and not compressed...there may be enough there to draw out some details.

OR...you could just not fight it...work with what you have...here's an idea I played with:


That's cool. I may have to try that did you just desat and apply some glausen blur? That fuji thing sound pretty cool as well! Thanks for some info!
 08/01/2005 11:39:13 PM · #9
One way of fixing overexposure (in PS or Elements) is to create a duplicate layer of background. Then change the blend from "normal" to multiply. If it needs more, take the copy and make another duplicate copy of it. Keep repeating until you have right amount of detail. If you get too much on the last layer, change the opacity setting to a lower level. (Courtesy of Scott Kelby's book.)
 08/01/2005 11:39:36 PM · #10
The highlights are so blown out, there is no detail to rescue out of it.
Perhaps in a case like this, a higher contrast edit with movement lessens the impact:



Click on each thumbnail and switch between them
in the taskbar to see the effects and differences.
 08/01/2005 11:52:07 PM · #11
Here's my try

Just your basic cloning. I could have done a better job in making it less messy, but I'm tired, so here
 08/01/2005 11:53:23 PM · #12
Originally posted by BradP:
The highlights are so blown out, there is no detail to rescue out of it.
Perhaps in a case like this, a higher contrast edit with movement lessens the impact:



Click on each thumbnail and switch between them
in the taskbar to see the effects and differences.


Yea I agree, but that motion blur is pretty neat. I will have to try. I only have PSP 7 and can't afford PS. Is elements better than PSP. I may have to invest in that, at least to maybe get used to the terms in PS.
08/01/2005 11:59:06 PM · #13
Originally posted by JeremyFleury:
I only have PSP 7 and can't afford PS. Is elements better than PSP. I may have to invest in that, at least to maybe get used to the terms in PS.


I only have PS Elements 2...if you upgrade, could you send me your old PSP7, please?

(Will post requested details later on pic...too wiped out from a long weekend + drive home to think anymore.) (Also, love the BradP treatment...nice!)
 08/03/2005 06:39:04 AM · #14
Originally posted by JeremyFleury:
Originally posted by KaDi:

OR...you could just not fight it...work with what you have...here's an idea I played with:


That's cool. I may have to try that did you just desat and apply some glausen blur? That fuji thing sound pretty cool as well! Thanks for some info!


I desaturated greens and bumped up the saturation on the magenta--lost some of the subtlety of color on upload to the site.
Copied the base layer and solarized it--set opacity at 62%
Levels
Then a new layer with Gaussian Blur--20-40% (I forget exactly.)
Cropped at some point, too.

(I like Brad's interpretation with the motion blur--I'll have to try that on some of my own images.)


08/03/2005 07:10:25 AM · #15
I´m no expert here, (and so show my scores) however i do think that for most people on this site over exposure is under rated. For me you have great photo there, may not be the best picture ever taken but it has something and atracts the eye in a way that a flat picture would never do, actually that reflexion helps composition a lot.
So look at it with diffrent eyes and decide wether you don´t wanna keep it the way it is.

Sorry for not helping ;).
 08/03/2005 10:55:46 AM · #16
Here's a quick 'n dirty stab at rescuing this image. I have used healing brush to recreate burned-out hair and chin/lips. I have selected the blown-out body parts and shirt and saved the selection. On a new layer from BG I have loaded the selection and gone to filters/texture/texturizer/sandstone and adjusted the parameters to a fine detail. Then, leaving that area selected I have gone to filters/blur/gaussian blur and overlaid a smidgen of that on the selection. Finally, witht he selection still active I created a selective color adjustment layer, loaded the "white" channel, and mixed in a little color over the texture. I faded to adjustment layer then merged it with the G copy. I then faded the BG copy a hair in "darken" mode.

This can all be done much better from full-size original, and it is possible to judiciously brush some some burn and dodge into the area of the shirt to make it appear to have some folds in the fabric, but only working at a higher resolution.



Robt.
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