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02/22/2007 12:43:27 PM · #1 |
This is my neighbors daughter when she was first born 3 years ago. This was the first photo taken of her and the only one taken at the hostital. When she showed it to me she said she almost deleted it because it was so bad... and it is. But that is a moment captured in time that she will never be able to get back. I'm not sure what kind of camera she used or why it was so overexposed but I want to help her preserve that moment as best as possible so I'm coming to all you for help. I know there isn't really a whole lot that can be done with it but whatever you can do would be appreciated. Please help by doing whatever can be done to making the best of a really bad photo.
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02/22/2007 01:01:22 PM · #2 |
that's what we refer to as "blown out". Everything has gone all the way to white, so there's no information there to recover.
You might be able to fix the medical person to look better, but all that white is just gone.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
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02/22/2007 02:28:48 PM · #3 |
| strange the way the baby's face is all white but the mouth! But it's to bad for me to fix, sorry and good luck, there are some real good peepz here |
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02/22/2007 02:52:22 PM · #4 |
I have no idea how to bring out any details - I don't think you can.
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02/22/2007 02:56:47 PM · #5 |
Sorry to say it, but I'm pretty sure that one is gone. There is no detail left in the highlights to fix.
As to why it happened. I'm guessing it was shot at close distance with on-camera flash in a fairly dark room. The camera simply over-compensated, using the dark background in figuring out exposure.
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02/22/2007 03:01:14 PM · #6 |
| Not much can be done if it was shot as a jpg. If it was shot as RAW you might be able to pull something out of it, but I wouldn't expect any miracles. |
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02/22/2007 04:13:30 PM · #7 |
If someone is really good, they may be able to turn it into something "artsy".
Just a thought.
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02/22/2007 04:28:52 PM · #8 |
The best you could possibly do is open it up in photoshop and whip out your mighty History brush set to "multiply" and paint over the whitened areas to try to bring back any detail hidden there. In the end, there isn't much you'll be able to do to recover this image.
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02/22/2007 04:35:38 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by fireserpent:
The best you could possibly do is open it up in photoshop and whip out your mighty History brush set to "multiply" and paint over the whitened areas to try to bring back any detail hidden there. In the end, there isn't much you'll be able to do to recover this image. |
History brush only works when a history state is set, sorry. This is apparently the original file. |
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02/22/2007 04:42:30 PM · #10 |
This is not a recoverable image.
I recovered as many details that were somewhat hidden in the over-exposure and can be seen above in the edit.
One way to determine if any details are lurking under the blow-outs is to grab the eyedropper tool, click where you set the foreground or background colors and bring up the color picker. While that is displayed, run the eyedropper around the blown-out areas, while watching to see if there is any change in the hex values under the first column. If the hex value stays ffffff, it is absolute white and contains no data, which in the case of this photograph, is what the blow-outs measure.
Sorry, if there was even a chance to pull something out of this, I would have spent a couple hours on it if needed.
Edit to add, as an example, I used the replace color tool in Photoshop, selecting ffffff, fuzzyness set to zero and replaced it with a neutral Grey, just to show what is actually absolute (no data) white in the image:
Message edited by author 2007-02-22 16:52:06. |
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02/24/2007 04:47:01 PM · #11 |
Thanks for all the input and the efforts. I figured it was too far gone to repair but, I also knew if anyone could fix it at all it would be someone on this site. My experience isn't strong enough so I thought I would try here. My friend appreciates the effort too.
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