Blown highlights

Hi all, got this photo but I have blown the highlights anyone out there who can work some magic and let me know what they did I would be grateful...

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If you want highlight recovery and you have the RAW file available that would offer a lot more headroom.

bensherman2 wrote in post #9747418
Hi all, got this photo but I have blown the highlights anyone out there who can work some magic and let me know what they did I would be grateful...

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Cheers

Matt

Matt...primarily the shot is overexposed about 1.5 stops. In lightroom, I adjusted that and pulled in some recovery and bumped up the blacks a bit.
Paul

If you don't have a Raw file you might be able to pull some details from the original JPEG...but this resized photo isn't much to work with.

bensherman2 wrote in post #9747418
Hi all, got this photo but I have blown the highlights anyone out there who can work some magic and let me know what they did I would be grateful...

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'image/gif' | Byte size: ZERO

Cheers

Matt

All I can say is "Don't do that!". You would spend many hours painting the areas back in for a poor result. You can do a bit with RAW, but this one is toast.

My try.

Elements 2.0, on an uncalibrated laptop, so I really have no idea what it looks like, I only know that some of the areas that looked blown had some data. If this is good or not, I will have to look at tomorrow.

Using only selections and multiply layers in, as I said, Elements 2.0

Rad

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If you do this with an image that is unrepeatable and important, there is a technique of faking skin tone in PS.

By "borrowing" skin colour from elsewhere in the image, paint it on a seperate layer over the blown out areas. Then change the new layer blending mode to darken and play with the opacity of this layer and careful use of the eraser on the new layer. It might be neccesary to choose a slightly different or darker tone.

I'd suggest you deal with each and every blown out area seperately so it's going to be time consuming. That's why it's not something I'd entertain unless the image is of great importance.

Cheers for the replies, I was shooting in manual and just as I started taking shots the sun came out from behind a big cloud and I was concentrating on his run in for a try.

Think I will have to try harder.

Thanks

Matt