Retouching overexposure in PS

[Oystein]

On this link you can see a crop of a picture, where most of it is nicely exposed, but the face of one of the two person in the image is severe overexposed. I have been fiddling around with photoshop in the latest couple of weeks, and learnt some basics, but when it comes to this case I cannot correct it. I have tried some cloning, some color change, some darkening, but only converting to B&W looks fairly natural. Any tps? Or is this expert job? . Is it doable at all?

Link:

http://smaug.hiof.no/~oysteinm/bror.htm

[mcaldwell]

To bring out details from an overexposed area one uses the burn-in tool. However, you cannot get detail where there is no data, plus strong burn-in leads to color shift, etc. This one looks to me to just be too overexposed to be able to bring it back. Do you have a RAW file? If so, you might be able to reconvert it to TIFF with a user-selected exposure and recover more data.