Best ways to unclip the sun?

GND filters...

If you are talking about pp then you could use your eliptical tool and make a selection slightly smaller than that of the sun. Copy to another layer.

while working on the lower layer.

Then you could clone around the edges with areas just past the sun.

or you could transform the selection by scale to where it covers what you don't want in there.

might not even be what you were asking.

argyle wrote in post #9363925
GND filters...

I did think of that after, but I was happy with the exposure of the sky. The problem was caused by the high contrast between it and the sun so to get a properly exposed red sun the sky would have been too dark.

nprdavid wrote in post #9366345
If you are talking about pp then you could use your eliptical tool and make a selection slightly smaller than that of the sun. Copy to another layer.

while working on the lower layer.

Then you could clone around the edges with areas just past the sun.

or you could transform the selection by scale to where it covers what you don't want in there.

might not even be what you were asking.

That is the kind-of thing I was looking for, so thanks for the suggestions.

I was thinking of applying a blur to the sun to try to both eradicate the red border and smooth out the banding as it goes from red to yellow to white.

But before doing anything I thought it seemed such an unavoidable problem with digital photography that there must be a best solution that people apply. Given how I was not able to find anything searching on here or Google maybe it is not though? I guess I will just have to try the different ideas out and see which works best.

mij wrote in post #9374003
I did think of that after, but I was happy with the exposure of the sky. The problem was caused by the high contrast between it and the sun so to get a properly exposed red sun the sky would have been too dark.

That is the kind-of thing I was looking for, so thanks for the suggestions.

I was thinking of applying a blur to the sun to try to both eradicate the red border and smooth out the banding as it goes from red to yellow to white.

But before doing anything I thought it seemed such an unavoidable problem with digital photography that there must be a best solution that people apply. Given how I was not able to find anything searching on here or Google maybe it is not though? I guess I will just have to try the different ideas out and see which works best.

Michael.

Sorry about that...I thought you were asking about how to avoid the problem at the time of capture. Your best bet would be to apply a blur to the image, then fill the layer mask with black. Paint over the sun's edge at the area's in question with a small white brush and this should do the trick, or at least improve things. I gave it a shot to see how it would work, and with a lot more attention to detail I could probably work it. I spent maybe 30-seconds on it...the before/after is below. It's an improvement, but you could do better since you'd be more likely to pay closer attention to detail than I did, for obvious reasons.

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That is quite a noticeable difference, especially for a quick example, so that looks a pretty good way to go. Will hopefully have the time to go back to those shots later in the week so will hopefully be back to show the results.

Thanks for trying that out.