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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