need help with overexposure
Mar 20, 2020 09:40:40 #
I need help eliminating the overexposure near her face. I have tried using Elements and Luminar 4, but only make things worse. HELP!
Mar 20, 2020 09:52:01 #
Elements Photo Editor
Open file
Enhance
Adjust Lighting
Shadows/Highlights
Darken Highlights
Adjust Slider
Will that work?
Open file
Enhance
Adjust Lighting
Shadows/Highlights
Darken Highlights
Adjust Slider
Will that work?
Mar 20, 2020 09:56:12 #
The only hope is to use a cloning tool and paint skin tone, from a well exposed portion of the face over the blown out area. I use Photoshop and am not familiar with what your software offers. It will be a delicate and time consuming process; and depending on your artistic ability, less than perfect.
Mar 20, 2020 10:09:37 #
Lucian
Loc: From Wales, living in Ohio
With under there is always some detail to be saved but overexposure means you have lost everything. The way this flair looks it may also be that the lens was a little dirty as in oily or greasy, which caused the overexposure to flair even more.
There is nothing that can be done to bring anything back in those areas since there is no info to be recovered, whit is always lost for good. The only way is going to be to try and clone from darker areas of the face but you have a more difficult job due to the gradation of the white blending into the face from right to left. What ever you do, unless you are an absolute expert in Photoshop, it is not going to be good. You could always try sending it to a company that specializes in retouching.
Maybe try Rebooku which offers such a service, do a good search and see if they may be able to help, though I believe they may soon or have already, be closing down until March 30th. Good luck.
There is nothing that can be done to bring anything back in those areas since there is no info to be recovered, whit is always lost for good. The only way is going to be to try and clone from darker areas of the face but you have a more difficult job due to the gradation of the white blending into the face from right to left. What ever you do, unless you are an absolute expert in Photoshop, it is not going to be good. You could always try sending it to a company that specializes in retouching.
Maybe try Rebooku which offers such a service, do a good search and see if they may be able to help, though I believe they may soon or have already, be closing down until March 30th. Good luck.
Mar 20, 2020 10:15:48 #
Don709 wrote:
I need help eliminating the overexposure near her face. I have tried using Elements and Luminar 4, but only make things worse. HELP!
Many of the UHH photo editing experts hang out in the Post-Processing section of the forum. You might consider asking Admin to move your topic there.
Mar 20, 2020 10:16:07 #
Don, consider posting your request here:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/s-116-1.html
Also select the “store original” option to give folks the most data to work with.
Good luck.
Edit: Oops I see srt101fan types faster than me. By less than a minute.
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/s-116-1.html
Also select the “store original” option to give folks the most data to work with.
Good luck.
Edit: Oops I see srt101fan types faster than me. By less than a minute.
Mar 20, 2020 10:29:07 #
BassmanBruce wrote:
Don, consider posting your request here:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/s-116-1.html
Also select the “store original” option to give folks the most data to work with.
Good luck.
Edit: Oops I see srt101fan types faster than me. By less than a minute.
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/s-116-1.html
Also select the “store original” option to give folks the most data to work with.
Good luck.
Edit: Oops I see srt101fan types faster than me. By less than a minute.
I'm usually the slow one.... But you get extra points for including the link! 😊
Mar 20, 2020 10:34:12 #
srt101fan wrote:
I'm usually the slow one.... But you get extra points for including the link! 😊
Mar 21, 2020 09:05:39 #
Once the highlights are clipped it is practically impossible to fix them.
Mar 21, 2020 09:48:37 #
fetzler
Loc: North West PA
Najataagihe wrote:
Elements Photo Editor
Open file
Enhance
Adjust Lighting
Shadows/Highlights
Darken Highlights
Adjust Slider
Will that work?
Open file
Enhance
Adjust Lighting
Shadows/Highlights
Darken Highlights
Adjust Slider
Will that work?
Najataagihe gives good advice. Better advice is to be careful about strong back lighting like you have. You could move either your position or the subjects position. Fill flash is another option but even so I would change the position of the subject and photographer.
Mar 21, 2020 11:54:04 #
maryo
Loc: Santa fe
i could fix it with the on1 2020 update i just got. So it is possible but I don't know about other programs.
Mar 21, 2020 12:03:45 #
maryo wrote:
i could fix it with the on1 2020 update i just got. So it is possible but I don't know about other programs.
Can you post your post fix photo and what you did? Did it involve cloning from an ok area over the blown out highlights? I sure would like to know if On1 has found some other way of handling this sort of issue. I use Photoshop, and to my knowledge cloning or painting are the only methods that might work.
Mar 21, 2020 12:30:40 #
Don709 wrote:
I need help eliminating the overexposure near her face. I have tried using Elements and Luminar 4, but only make things worse. HELP!
The only way to fix this, is to reshoot the shot and get it right in camera, the highlights look clipped, so they would have no recoverable details in it!
Mar 21, 2020 23:02:01 #
ChaplainPlato
Loc: Florida
You're getting great ideas from everybody else... but, if you have the option -- back off on the haze. It might make the flair manageable. You can't not keep this shot, the sister or sister-in-law who is crouched has too great an expression.
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