Toddler stands still for 1/250th of a second

rdsmith3 wrote in post #5202496
Thanks. Can you tell me what you did?

sure, if I remember it.
Its hard to fix blown highlights. they have no color value, and you cant just use curves on them. So I first used the cloning brush, setting it to color low opacity (I think 10) and I cloned some of his cheek color to the blown area. then I duplicated the layer and set it to multiply, opacity 50%, which is about a 1/2 stop darkening, and then set the layer mask to the left of his face, as I was only trying to darken the right side. I used a little bit of dodging on the left eye, and I think I had to do one more step of color cloning to give a little more of natural color to the blown right side of the face. It did take a good 5 minutes or so.

#1 for me.