A variety of ways are available. It really depends on each individual image how to go about it exactly.
Can you post you image online somewhere?
Wow! Difficult question!
In general terms yes/no/maybe/yes – partially/ (delete as appropriate)
It depends on whether the original image data can be tweaked to reveal what is there but may be shouldered out. Was the original in RAW, TIFF, JPEG, PROPRIETARY?
All these are factors which may influence the best method or approach – I don’t think it is quite as easy or as timely as CSI would have us believe.
Perhaps you’d care to post an image then we can have an attempt?
Mary,
It depends on how bad it is. If you can still see the intended subject through the glare of the flash and the damage is slight you can probably use the burn tool or use a gradient mask and a blend mode of multiply or burn. No matter what you will want to bring out any detail that is still there and if it is totally white you will need to clone or manually redraw those areas.
Good stuff
Using brushes: try a blending option too – sometimes multiply may help
Also try (on a duplicate file of the original image as creativiy should not compromise the original image at all)
creat a duplicate layer and try different layer modes looking at the flashed areas to see what happens as you cycle through blend modes
Thanks for all the input. What I had to do was to clone the entire area, used the burn tool and the blur tool. A friend asked what I could do with that, thats the final output. Flash lens can really be a pain. Thanks for all the advice, I appreciate it.
Mary
