How does this person get rid of lens flare like this?

Becker posted some of his before and afters and I was curious how you guys think he did this?

Here is the before

http://www.thebecker.c​om/bna/16.JPG

Here is the after

http://www.thebecker.c​om/bna/15.JPG

Not sure exactly but I would think it took some work with selections, several layers and hue saturation for starters. I have had some lens flare as bad as this and it is alot of work.

You do know you aren't supposed to post others work. Provide the link only.

Saturation, contrast, vibrance, lightness.... maybe even curves (though I don't think messing with the curves or levels would have been necessary for the example you gave). There are more than a couple things to try that would probably give you decent results for the above example

Play around with each of those on adjustment layers and see what you can come up with. Even the exposure slider would probably go a good ways if you were inclined to layer the image

It's easily done by correcting the levels then applying a shallow S curve. It can be done way batter than they did as well. 2 minutes work at most.

Just hit "Auto Level" and it gets you most of the way there.

Unless the EXIF says otherwise, It's quite possible the After is actually the Before.

Lot easier to add a tinted veil than remove that much flare!

gjl711 wrote in post #10127253
Just hit "Auto Level" and it gets you most of the way there.

Really don't. Auto Levels is a horrible thing. Learn to do it manually, it's not hard and the results are much better.

Anyway, Levels gets you from this...

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If Autolevels over does it, you can immediately use the Fade command to adjust the strength of the effect until it appears more reasonable.

Many commands in Photoshop can be faded immediately after the command has been completed -- maybe 50% of the correction would make a better result.

You can also duplicate the layer and run autolevels on that. Whereas fade only works immediately after you use the command, you can adjust the opacity of a duplicate layer at any time.

I just tried it and used auto levels then added a bit of contrast using curves. Finished with a bit of color correction for the gray point. Looks fine.