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hi all looking for someone to help me rectify this pic the dress(crop inc) had a spill down it ..is there anyway except cloning and healing to match the wet part to the orig colour?
thanks in advance phil

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If you would like others to be able to try different things, please change your profile to allow for image editing.

I can do it for you if you'd like if you can add IMAGE EDITING O.K. ! TO YOUR PROFILE

I finished so just gimme approval and i'll post

thanks guys....chkd my profile..image editing is allowed(doesnt seem to show up?)always set to allow anyway reset it and hope it shows up now..looking at ather post no one seems to be allowing editing...strange.
anyway edit away and let me know what u did thanks for the time taken to look and edit

Ok well here ya go phil. Ya I also have image edit ok and it doesnt work for me either. stange anyways here you are...
Original

Sound good or more changing necisary?

thats sweet boxer what did u use to change/

philbyuk wrote in post #2004721
thats sweet boxer what did u use to change/

The magical

I can take care of the dust and scratches too really quick if you'd like. Just post up the whole image

There is allot of ways to do this. One is not more right than the other. Just for the fun of it I took a stab at this as well. Used select color range to get just the wet looking fabric and opened the Hue/Saturation dialogue box. After just a few tweaks with the sliders there I ended up with this.

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Here's my take on it:

Select > Color Range ...

Click on the darkest region of the stain.

Save that as a channel and deselect. Click the visibility icon to show the mask effects, (might want to double click on the title and change the masking color & opacity, since the usual red blend in with the pink hues in the image.) Tweak the mask by increasing contrast, then filling the white area with pure white, and the black area with pure black. You could also use the threshold tool for this. Load a selection from the resulting mask, and turn the visibility off on the channel.

Back on the layers palette, Create a new adjustment layer for levels. Adjust the levels until the stained area matches the tone of the rest of the dress as closely as possible. With the brush tool, feather the edges of the layer's mask (created by the selection) until the borders of the stain are reasonably invisible. Once it looks like the mask is about right, go back and fine tune the adjustment layer's settings.

I hope that helps

(And it looks like I pretty much did what the poster above did... )

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thank you all for taking the time to show some techniques its much appreciated and will try some out later