How to remove glare on cupboard?

[mrk123]

This is a crop of an image.
I have tried content fill and clone stamp but can't sem to get it right. Fill tool not working. I want to take these 2 hot spots out... I nearly left them in but it ruins the image, looks sloppy.
Am I using contnt fill wrong?
AS it is here I have not shown with fill or clone, just how it is.
I normally shots without lights off but this was the first shot and I wasn;t thinking.

Would a COLOUR LAYER be the best bet, and paint it in / over?

 

[MrToM]

Tricky, not perfect but a 5 min fiddle...



Used 'Content Aware Fill' for the bulk of it, clone stamp for the top 'edge' and a little 'patch' to smooth things out.

There may be more usable data for 'content aware' to use in the full image, possibly giving a better result, as this is a crop it is limited.

Regards.
MrToM.

 

[chrisdesign]

I worked the same way as MrTom to get to this result.

 

[mrk123]

Both are good but second one is clean!
How hell ya do that?! On a scareen grab too?!
Can ya share, I have not delivered th photos yet!

 

[mrk123]

Just seen your steps, will try now. And post back. I always forget to use patch tool.

 

[mrk123]

Annoying job... I ended up using marquee tool and copying th panel on the left and just dragged it across, and used normal blend mode and lowerd the opacity and usd a fathered eraser tool to blend... done the job... Content aware was not workig for me! Oh but did content aware the lights out.

 

[IamSam]

Just another possibility.

I used a combination of the Clone Stamp Tool, the Brush Tool, and Content Aware fill.

I did create selections to constrain the areas I worked in with the Pen Tool.
First selection.


Worked the area first with a content fill, added some clone stamping to even it out.
Then I used the Brush Tool on a very low setting to blend.


Repeat for each panel.



Don't forget this glare!

 

[mrk123]

Very nice!

 

[mrk123]

Well afer all that the colour was wrong! I had to change it! Thankfully I always shoot a flash shot which gives a perfecr colour reading provusing the light source is white. The ceiling is still a little bright for me but I am done now! Not perfect but I am not getting paid enough to keep going in!