Help with editing glasses (refraction)

Hi,

I had a little portrait session today at work and I messed up my bosses photo
I didnt noticed the refraction (sp?) on his left eye. I didnt saw it on the display of my camera.

How can I fix this in post?
I tried a few things with clone stamp, liquify etc, but nothing looks real enough.

Please help me out, thanks!

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Thats a tough one. Depending on where the glare is, I found a good tutorial on youtube that had you clone the eye that is glare free, flip it and replace the eye with glare. I tried it on an image and it turned out pretty darn good. I only wish I could find it again and I would post it here.

I made a loose selection of the area and copied to its own layer. Then used the transform tool to widen the selection. Added a mask to hide all and painted in where needed. Added a curves clipped to that layer to balance a little. Didn't do anything with the glare, only the refraction. Took about 2 minutes.

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Great tip Dennis! Thank you!

dirks wrote in post #12208728
Great tip Dennis! Thank you!

You're welcome, hope it helped.

Little tip for glasses, if you take 30 seconds to snap the same pose with the glasses off and use it to take out any glare on glasses. Just make a selection around the rim of the glasses and put in the image underneath without glasses and delete the selection. (If in CS5 make sure you turn of content aware fill!)