Removing windows reflects

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Olivier Croquette
Jan 15, 2006
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Hi

I am new to Photoshop, and I am trying to get rid of some reflects on the following picture:
http://ocroquette.free.fr/perso/photo/ocn0106b_20_main.jpg

I am concerned only about the blue reflects.
As they are well identified, and that the information below is still present, I guess it is doable.
I tried to play with the filters, but I could not get acceptable results.

Any advice how to do that?
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noone
Jan 16, 2006
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Hi

I am new to Photoshop, and I am trying to get rid of some reflects on the following picture:
http://ocroquette.free.fr/perso/photo/ocn0106b_20_main.jpg
I am concerned only about the blue reflects.
As they are well identified, and that the information below is still present, I guess it is doable.
I tried to play with the filters, but I could not get acceptable results.
Any advice how to do that?

Yes, Olivier. Open document (highest rez ver best). In Channels Palette, turn off RGB, by turning off Red & Green. Look at your Channel for Blue only. 98% of your reflections are there, as white. With Blue Channel active, I’d use the Clone Tool (Rubber Stamp) and clone in sections that are white. I hit the windows in the chocolate house/building, and just grabbed a source from the next window. If you have CS2, go to Edit>Preferences>Cursors and choose Brush Size and check "Show Crosshairs," or whatever the exact phrasology is, so your brush size is visible plus you have cross-hairs in the middle. You may have to line things up very carefully, but, in general, it looked like you had very similar info, as that area below the reflection. There is a bit of work to be done by hand, but I had about 3 larger reflections gone in moments, with only 2 "re-dos."

Maybe Tacit or edjh have an easier manner to tweak just the Blue Channel, or maybe a Ctrl-c/Ctrl-v (Copy/Paste) from another Channel.

Good luck,
Hunt
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Olivier Croquette
Jan 16, 2006
Hunt wrote:
Yes, Olivier.

Hi Hunt

Many thanks for your reply.
I have only Photoshop Elements, but I could isolate the channels thanks to the indication on:
http://www.webreference.com/graphics/elements3/
(very good page btw).

As you say, it requires quite a bit of manual work, but it looks promising!
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noone
Jan 17, 2006
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Hunt wrote:
Yes, Olivier.

Hi Hunt

Many thanks for your reply.
I have only Photoshop Elements, but I could isolate the channels thanks to the indication on:
http://www.webreference.com/graphics/elements3/
(very good page btw).

As you say, it requires quite a bit of manual work, but it looks promising!

Sorry, I did not see that you were using PE, instead of PS. I’d not gone off on how to do it in PS, as I do not know exactly what PE is capable of. Glad you found the site with info. Does PE allow you to put the cross-hairs in the Clone Tool? In PS, it only came about with ~CS2 and it is a God-send. Otherwise, there is quite a bit of Crtl-z and start over to match things exactly. If you have Guides, you might want to drag one vert. and one horiz. to a spot that matches (say the inside upper corner of the closest window), and align the Clone Tool onto that. Just thinking…

I’ve wracked my feeble brain, and cannot come up with a quicker, easier way to do this, than the manual method (corrected to PE, of course), listed. Still waiting for a few of the others to chime in – hopefully with a really quick process. I’d be glad to have a DUH! moment. ;-}

Hunt
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Jan 17, 2006
"Olivier Croquette" wrote in message
Hi

I am new to Photoshop, and I am trying to get rid of some reflects on the following picture:
http://ocroquette.free.fr/perso/photo/ocn0106b_20_main.jpg
I am concerned only about the blue reflects.
As they are well identified, and that the information below is still present, I guess it is doable.
I tried to play with the filters, but I could not get acceptable results.
Any advice how to do that?

Set your brush Mode to Color and sample from the color next to the blue reflects then paint over the blue reflects.

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