eyeglass reflection

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Jay_Knobbe
Jan 26, 2004
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Any tips on removing the camera flash reflection from eyeglasses? It covers about 75% of one eye and 50% of the other.
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Mike Russell
Jan 26, 2004
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Any tips on removing the camera flash reflection from eyeglasses? It covers about 75% of one eye and 50% of the other.

This is one case where selection masks are valuable.

Go to QuickMask mode and color in the eyeglass area that you want to darken. Invert this, go to normal mode, and create a curves layer using the selection as the mask. The adjust the curves to darken the area in question. If there are areas completely without detail, copy one eye to a new image, flip horizontal, and use the clone tool to copy to the other eye. If possible avoid copying eyes from one person to another- although I have resorted to some brushwork this will only work on group shots – unless your painting skills are better than mine. Settle for something less than 100 percent glare elimination and your work will be less detectable. —

Mike Russell
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Daryl_Pritchard
Jan 26, 2004
Jay,

If the reflection is that extensive, you may not have much eye detail to work with. About all I’d know to suggest is that if you have multiple images of the same person, you may be able to clone a "good eye" from an image with more usable content. Sometimes you can also clone from one eye to the other to rebuild what is missing, but only if the same areas of the opposing eye are usable. Any stray reflections on the eyeglasses themself can often be cleaned up by careful healing/cloning, whether from areas of the person’s skin or even small areas of the eyeglass frames (if not a rimless design).

Regards,

Daryl
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BILL_HUNT
Jun 29, 2004
About the best that you can do is to re-create the missing areas of the eyes. Usually, with the reflection, if it is off-center, there will be corresponding "pieces" of each eye that can be used, i.e. the area toward the nose might be missing in the right eye, but visible in the left. By Selecting and copying the left eye, then pasting and "flipping" it horizontally, you might be able to get close. With the Free Transform function, you can size, rotate, and skew to match the perspective of the right eye. The same goes for copying the right eye, pasting and transforming it. There still may be areas missing, that will have to be cloaned in from whatever source you can find. Unfortunately, unless you have a photograph of this person without glasses, or of someone with similar eyes, this is about all you can do.

Hunt
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John_R_Nielsen
Jun 30, 2004
In Photoshop Retouching and Resoration by Katrin Eismann (Que Books), there is a section on doing just this.

As well as a whole lot of other valuable stuff. A great book!
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Enrique_Ivern
Jun 30, 2004
if there is some detail left in the reflection (not completely white) you might try this:

select the area
feather
new layer by copy
layer mode:multiply
if some detail appears, you might want to repeat with another layer in multiply mode

also some glare/reflection might seem more natural than none, if the model is wearing glasses…

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