What's the best way to fix a hot spot?

I was in a bit of a hurry shooting this person at a shoot for several models where he didn't have much time and had to leave. I really like the photo, I'm just a bit bugged by the hot spot on the fore head from the sun coming through the leaves.

What's the best way to fix this? Will it be just dodging and burning until it looks right? That's the way I would do it now and it would take me a bit to get it good enough for my liking. Is there another way to do this that's easier and will give a better overall look instead of one that may end up looking off because I'm trying to piece it together?

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Burning and then adding some color into the area you burned. Should be a fairly quick and easy fix.

Hate to admit it, but I've never quite gotten dodging and burning down. How do you add color back in?

JPepus wrote in post #15168667
How do you add color back in?

I would clone on color blend mode with a soft brush set to about 3% opacity and sample from just outside of the hot spot.

doidinho wrote in post #15168688
I would clone on color blend mode with a soft brush set to about 3% opacity and sample from just outside of the hot spot.

Oh ok. Sweet.

doidinho wrote in post #15168688
I would clone on color blend mode with a soft brush set to about 3% opacity and sample from just outside of the hot spot.

I'll try this when I get hom this evening and see how it turns out. I usually get splotchy results with the dodge/burn tools though. Guess my eye isn't the best for this.

Village_Idiot wrote in post #15168933
I'll try this when I get hom this evening and see how it turns out. I usually get splotchy results with the dodge/burn tools though. Guess my eye isn't the best for this.

Zoom way out for the correction; it's a large area, so you want to do the initial burning with a relatively large brush. A lot of people make the mistake of zooming in way too much and end up dodging and burning in defects simply because they lack the perspective that a more zoomed out view would give.

If you want to post a link to the full size I can have a go at it tonight.

If you are using the doge and burn tools I would only do so if you are using CS5 or CS6. In versions before this they just didn't handle the job very well. In looking at the hot spot, the portions of it at the very top of it are totally blown and there is no detail for which to burn in and you would have to either clone or paint in some color there.