Repairing an image

Hi,

I took a picture of some flowers, half of which were exposed to very

sunlight. The sunlight caused a decent portion of the image to

and the orange flowers look completely white. Of course, the error was in the picture taking, but I’m trying to repair after-the-fact.
Photoshop CS reports 255,255,255 for all the affected areas. I’ve tried using Image…Adjustments….Replace Color, but something odd happens. I first select the color to be replaced(white w/ a particular tolerance)

the eye dropper, and then select the replacement color(orange). Both are correct and look correct in the provided squares. When I execute the action, the resulting replacement color is always a gray, 146/146/146, in one case. No matter how I change the replacement color, the resultant replaced color is always some shade of gray.

Are you in CMYk mode by chance?

Hi,

I took a picture of some flowers, half of which were exposed to very bright sunlight. The sunlight caused a decent portion of the image to "blow-out", and the orange flowers look completely white. Of course, the error was in the picture taking, but I’m trying to repair after-the-fact.

Hi,

I took a picture of some flowers, half of which were exposed to very

sunlight. The sunlight caused a decent portion of the image to

and the orange flowers look completely white. Of course, the error was in the picture taking, but I’m trying to repair after-the-fact.
Photoshop CS reports 255,255,255 for all the affected areas. I’ve tried using Image…Adjustments….Replace Color, but something odd happens. I first select the color to be replaced(white w/ a particular tolerance)

the eye dropper, and then select the replacement color(orange). Both are correct and look correct in the provided squares. When I execute the action, the resulting replacement color is always a gray, 146/146/146, in one case. No matter how I change the replacement color, the resultant replaced color is always some shade of gray.

Whatever you do, it will still look strange.

Hi,

I took a picture of some flowers, half of which were exposed to very bright sunlight. The sunlight caused a decent portion of the image to "blow-out", and the orange flowers look completely white. Of course, the error was in the picture taking, but I’m trying to repair after-the-fact.

Photoshop CS reports 255,255,255 for all the affected areas. I’ve tried using Image…Adjustments….Replace Color, but something odd happens. I first select the color to be replaced(white w/ a particular tolerance) with the eye dropper, and then select the replacement color(orange). Both are correct and look correct in the provided squares. When I execute the action, the resulting replacement color is always a gray, 146/146/146, in one case. No matter how I change the replacement color, the resultant replaced color is always some shade of gray.

The outside border structure of the flowers is intact, I think mainly due to the fact that the background is either shaded by the flowers on the top, or is simply very dark.

I’m not sure which tools or methods I should be using to fix this problem. I’ve tried creating a new layer, brushing over the affected areas with the new color, and then adjusting the opacity of the layer. This has produced the best results I can get so far, but it still looks bad.

Any suggestions on how to attack this problem? The link below is the image:

www.techtravels.org/flowers.jpg