[HELP NEEDED] How do you photoshop shadow out?

[adambrochu]

Hi Photoshop Guru Forum,

I'm trying to find the best way to photoshop the shadow out of the red wall.

What is the best way to do this?

Is it better to keep it all dark wall, or all light wall?

Any suggestions and recommendations would be much appreciated.

Please see image attached to see what I'm referring too.

Thank you for your time and help.

 

[iDad]

Looking at that section of your picture the only option I see is to cover it up or extract it and add a new wall

 

[iDad]

You could maybe fade it out by using your levels filter

 

[ibclare]

Outside of spending way too much time cloning it either dark or washed out looking, I think iDad's idea of replacing the wall is probably the best. Otherwise, you will get a pretty choppy looking result -- unless you have mega skills, IMO. Hard to know exactly how to advise you since we can't see the whole image and how the rest of the wall looks.

 

[iDad]

You know Claire had a good idea I played around with it with the clone tool. only took one sampling of faded area to the left of the head at 80 pixels made a new layer and pasted it on there and then transformed to size. I did the same thing with the lower area to cover the shoulder area of the back, transformed that layer
it covered up really well don't know what it's going look like on print though. Devices that might be fine

 

[iDad]

oops forgot the image

 

[sprucemagoo1]

Make a selection of the shadow, and with a white soft brush which is low in opacity, colour the shadow in to match the light around it. Play with layer blending modes and such and a bit of Gaussian blur.

 

[iDad]

Good idea, I didn't go that route because I thought he may want the wall texture intact.