Help needed

[knockieranlady]

Hi all, congrats on a great forum, loads of tips and ideas. I wonder if any of you experts can help me. i am attaching a picture of a group photo of my sisters recent wedding. As you will see the picture is ruined by lens flare. Can anyone suggest a way to correct this picture with photoshop cs2. All help will be gratefully accepted as it is the only picture we have of the whole group.
thanks in anticipation
Val

[knockieranlady]

Hi, me again, can someone tell me how to attach the image so it can be viewed in a larger size. I had to keep shrinking it so I could load it at 100kb, I must be doing something wrong though as other pictures on this site are much bigger to look at, regards
Val

[dmp-potn]

Hello,

Tough one there. If possible, go back to the same place from which you took the photo and take several more without the people there, ideally at the same time of day. Choose the re-take that has a perspective that's most similar to the original. Bring your re-take into Photoshop as a second layer. Use free transform and move as necessary to get the re-take to line up with the original, and mask it in to fix the parts of the foreground and background that were mared by flare.

For the black pants, use the clone brush and sample bits of leg from folks who were not hit with flare. This will be tedious work, so take your time. You can probably use the same technique for everything else except for people's faces. For those, either leave them alone, or duplicate the layer, do some color and curves adjustments, and mask them back in.

You've got your work cut out for you, and the results will unfortunately never be 100% as good as if you had avoided the flare at the time of capture. Just learn your lesson, take the post production hit, and move on. Please share your fixed photo if you decide to go this route. Good luck!

[knockieranlady]

Thanks David for your prompt reply, I can go back to the Church and take more phots, its only five minutes away. It sounds like a lot of hard work, the faces in the picture are the worst affected. I will have a go and see what results I get. I will post the retouched photo if it turns out ok. thanks again
Val

[ssim]

If you want others to take a crack at doing this for you, you would be better off to provide a link to a higher resolution and sized image. Do you have a website that you can plunk this onto.

Alternately use save for web which you can easily play with the size and compression to find the right combination of dimension and file size.

[knockieranlady]

Hi again, I have attached the image in a save for web format, hope that is ok, all efforts will be gratefully appreciated, thanks again

Val

[strmrdr]

in your profile set the Image edit and repost permission to yes and I will take a shot at it and repost the results.

[strmrdr]

steps to remove orange dot and bring out the faces in it...

eliptical marquee
move to cover
layer via cut
select the new layer
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use curves to match the rest, try and match the brick color as much as possible will get you close.
check overall image. <-- repeat 2 steps as needed.
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blur and healing brush as needed.
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done....

[dmp-potn]

Hello,

You may click on the photo below to download the full resolution master:

http://dsnyder.ws-e.com/photos/potn/web/IMG_3385.jpg (http://dsnyder.ws-e.com/photos/potn/IMG_3385.JPG)

[strmrdr]

Here is my 2 min edit results more time would get better results.....
It's not that hard to do....