How to TREAT SEVERELY FRIED ZONES in fotos

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MiguelGarcia
Jul 29, 2008
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Hi every body …

If someone could help me I will appreciate it very much …

It seems I cant attach the Photo I’m referring to in this forum because

it seems its not allowed.

Anyway, if web addresses are allowed you can see the photo at :

< http://picasaweb.google.com/jmgpbs43fde43TRretyg543FDT65tg/F orumDiscussedPhotos02/photo#5228458286385970322>

I will try to explain my self the best way I can…

The right shoulder zone of my little soon get fried by the light in the photo, although the rest of the image (witch doesn’t matter for this question) is absolutely "perfect" in terms of exposure and sharpness.

NOTE we are talking about a photo at the beach so, we are talking about correcting the skin and not clothes .

I tried some ways to solve this:

1-

I duplicated the image into another layer and decrease its exposure and treated it thought a mask visible on the fried zone but.

Result : The decreased exposure layer gets too gray in the fried zone.

2-

I tried to clone the color and tone of the left shoulder to the right fried zone

Result : It works to some extent until I reach the axilla. As it is a more textured zone the clone tools doesn’t work at all.

3-

I tried the same with healing tool.

Result : More or less equal to point 2.

Obviously my question is :

Is there any way to treat efficiently this fried zone, giving it the color and tone appearance of the non-fried zone (at the left shoulder) but maintaining the texture of the axilla?

In other words: Remove the light fried zone and let persons believe absolutely both shoulders was ever at shadow (like the left soulder side) and the right shoulder was never fried …

Could you explain this to me, step by step ?

Lots of thanks in advance,

Miguel Garcia

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John Joslin
Jul 29, 2008
In fact the "fried" area is not really blown out: you could recover a bit more detail and balance with Image > Adjust > Shadows/Highlights.

You will never get a natural look trying to completely match the shoulders, why do you want to?
JM
J_Maloney
Jul 29, 2008
Down and dirty: just pickup a light pink from near the burn-out. Create a new layer and paint with a large soft brush at 15-30% opacity over the burn-out area. Then make the layer blend mode darken and reduce opacity to suit.

< http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1lvAiydkmyTQXrIpFt mkkZyd4Bir>
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MiguelGarcia
Jul 29, 2008
Hello.

Lots of thanks for the answers.

One or two more question, and sorry to be out of context:

1-

Sorry but I don’t know exactly what do you mean with "pickup a light pink". Are you talking about the collor picker tool to pick up a pink tone from the area in shadow next to the bruned out ?

2-

I was convinced attachemetns were not allowed here.

How to do it when posting a message ?

Lots of thanks again,

Miguel Garcia
JM
J_Maloney
Jul 29, 2008

1. Yes (3 x 3 average)
2. www.pixentral.com — once you’ve uploaded your picture they give you an html link to copy/paste into your post.

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