Tutorial for window glare requested.

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May 29, 2007
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My brother in law sent me a photo to retouch.
It is of my niece coming in for a landing in
a glider. There is quite a bit of glare in
the cockpit glass, but most of her face has
good detail. So I think I need to select the
glare portion, and modify its color to get the
detailed parts to match the non-glare portions,
then paint/patch/heal the few parts that have
saturated glare.

But starting with a good tutorial somewhere would
be a big help.

Thanks in advance,

—
Andrew Hall
(Now reading Usenet in comp.graphics.apps.photoshop…)
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Roberto
May 29, 2007
wrote in message
My brother in law sent me a photo to retouch.
It is of my niece coming in for a landing in
a glider. There is quite a bit of glare in
the cockpit glass, but most of her face has
good detail. So I think I need to select the
glare portion, and modify its color to get the
detailed parts to match the non-glare portions,
then paint/patch/heal the few parts that have
saturated glare.

But starting with a good tutorial somewhere would
be a big help.

Thanks in advance,

—
Andrew Hall
(Now reading Usenet in comp.graphics.apps.photoshop…)

Try selecting the areas of glare and adjusting the contrast. You won’t be able to get rid of all of the glare or at least do that and have it look right. But, you should be able to minimize it. Next time he should use a polarizer filter, then he can get all of the glare gone, it is a good investment.

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Joe
May 29, 2007
wrote:

My brother in law sent me a photo to retouch.
It is of my niece coming in for a landing in
a glider. There is quite a bit of glare in
the cockpit glass, but most of her face has
good detail. So I think I need to select the
glare portion, and modify its color to get the
detailed parts to match the non-glare portions,
then paint/patch/heal the few parts that have
saturated glare.

But starting with a good tutorial somewhere would
be a big help.

Thanks in advance,

It depends on the problem and how you want to fix the problem, you can use many different tools or combination. Like Clone tool, Duplicate, Replacement (similar to background replacement), masking, and with the combination of many different techniques.

Or this should be some of the very basic thing that most retouchers should know. Or it should not be much different than fixing over/underexposed, glare on eye-glass, in the eye, skin etc.. I don’t know if there is any tutorial for the cockpit specific, or windshield etc. but there should be plenty for eye-glass, eye, and many others, and either one should be able to adapt to thousands of others.

But if you haven’t mastered few basic commands then it won’t be easy, and most tutorials usually only show one or few out of hundreds of different ways.

BTW, you may either google for something like "photoshop glare" or stop by some forum like www.dpreview.com (the retouching forum) and ask members there to show you and you can play along with them.
JM
John McWilliams
May 29, 2007
wrote:
My brother in law sent me a photo to retouch.
It is of my niece coming in for a landing in
a glider. There is quite a bit of glare in
the cockpit glass, but most of her face has
good detail. So I think I need to select the
glare portion, and modify its color to get the
detailed parts to match the non-glare portions,
then paint/patch/heal the few parts that have
saturated glare.

But starting with a good tutorial somewhere would
be a big help.

Here’s something to try: Duplicate the bg layer. Now select the new copied layer, and try each and every blend mode, keeping your eye on the cockpit glass. If one of them does the trick, you’ve got a good start. If not, you’ve lost 5 minutes of time.

If one does do the trick, you can then make a selection, or mask the top layer to reveal only that part you need altered.

Good luck!

—
John McWilliams

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