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11/16/2005 02:51:43 PM · #1 |
I took this picture this weekend..... the sun was horrible that day and it was near impossible to find a shady spot. I didn't realize the flare was on the there until I brought it home and looked at it on the computer. Is there anyway to fix this without it looking too fake ot overdone?
Thanks!
Lorrie
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11/16/2005 02:54:38 PM · #2 |
My first instinct is to so a simple brightness/contrast adjustment with a gradient layer mask... I'll give it a go now and post the result.
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11/16/2005 02:58:10 PM · #3 |
How's that?
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11/16/2005 02:59:31 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by Konador:
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Thank You! That is awesome! How did you do that?
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11/16/2005 03:05:05 PM · #5 |
I created an adjustment layer with brightness contrast setting show above, and then created a gradient layer mask to make sure it was applied more strongly in the top left, since thats the main problem area. The rest of the photo was okay so the gradient makes sure the adjustment isnt applied in those areas. I then fine tuned it with a brush on the layer mask, and burned on the original photo very slightly at the top just to even it out a tiny bit. Then finally I applied a global levels adjustment on that top adjustment layer. It probably wasn't needed but I thought I'd throw it in there for good measure :)
Hope that helps :)
Message edited by author 2005-11-16 15:06:22.
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11/16/2005 03:08:42 PM · #6 |
I've taken a slightly different tack. This is a little rough, due to lack of time spent on it plus low resolution of original, but it shows an approach to maintaining the luminosity while minimizing the flare:
This involved creating a shadow and a highlight mask and balancing them, flattening the resultant image, color correcting, creating a new shadow and highlight mask set, balancing those, flattening, then pasting a copy of the entire thing over the original and fading its opacity.
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11/16/2005 04:14:53 PM · #7 |
----------- Original ---------------- Edited -----------
(click on each to open in a new window, then
switch between them in taskbar to see changes)
Mostly involved creating a new layer via copy, making changes to levels, saturation, contrast or colors in small steps, then using erase tool, erase areas that I didn't want changed, flattening, new layer again and repeating. Final skin smoothing by manual blur tool at very high magnification at approx. 20% opacity.
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11/16/2005 04:41:04 PM · #8 |
Levels, Curves to remove most of cast, Gradient Layer blended to even out picture, merge visible, remove remaining cast with curves, mask to select trees with CA, removed CA in HUE/Saturation, flattened and saved.
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11/16/2005 05:09:38 PM · #9 |
Here is my attempt
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