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Request - Removing Sun exposure on Face


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qwertyhomie

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Hello! The girl in the picture below unfortunately passed away, and as a gift to her mom I'd love to fix up the picture a bit and give to her. This picture was scanned in, and I know enough about photoshop to remove dust particles and such, but not knowlegable enough to reduce the sun exposure on the faces, hair and arm. This photo means alot to me, and although I've been practicing/learning to do this myself, would love someone more experienced to do a better job than what I could ever do. If I could keep the picture resolution and quality as best as possible, as I may enlarge it just a bit.

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Hey ibclare, thanks for the quick reply. I'm not too sure what you mean by cropping artistically. I would prefer to keep as much of the background in as possible, but I could only encourage the creativity of others, so I'd love to see what the community could come up with. Again, I appreciate any help or idea's given by others, I think her mother will really like the results.
 
I am sorry, I tried but the picture is very low resolution, 1217x834, those spots are very rough, I am not able to do anything much better. I hope somebody better than me in Photoshop will.
 
No need to apologize peta62. Thanks for taking the time to look into it. I understand the picture is a bit low quality. This picture is actually back from around 1998. Just an old disposable camera picture, and scanned in with a home office scanner. I have the original picture with me, and I could rescan it. But I'm not sure increasing the scan resolution would provide much better quality.
 
You know rather than not very good scanner I would try to take a picture of the photograph, it can sometimes give a better result. I think you can even put something on picture's edges to ensure it is flat, put the camera on tripod some soft light and give it a shot.
 
it is very bad taken photo and under hard light.
this is something i was able to achieve in couple of minutes... hope it is a bit better than the original but it wis very grainy and low in detail. sorry for your loss.
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Thanks for trying ibis.

Your result was pretty much what mine looked like as well when I attempted. It's hard to make it look natural due to the low resolution.

Even if the facial exposure cannot be corrected, I'm sure her mother will be more than happy to get the picture as is!
 
I basically agree with everyone. If you could have it scanned by a shop with good equipment, old photo or not, the resolution would be better.

Ibis, I think that about the only thing more you could do is make a few selective levels adjustments. It would help the overall image. But You did a good job given what you had.

To do any more with this photo would involve a hand drawn process, cloning away the compression and mellowing out the facial details. But I think getting it re-scanned would be a better bet.
 
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Having altered the background first then re applied the couple with slight and subtle contrast settings i came up with this.
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I'm curious. Did most of you do save as or copy the image. It should be clickable given it's size. I also think a little selective levels balancing would improve the overall shot.
 
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ibclare said:
Nice! I'm impressed. You filled in features and took care of background issues. The white car is maybe a bit washed out still, a bit hazy, but you wouldn't want it too bold ...

The only thing really is her left eye; looks a little bruised.
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Thanks Clare. I am glad you liked the edit. Here's the one with the one with the corrected eye (took her husband's eye and cloned it :wink:)...

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I have one more suggestion . . . don't hate me . . .

Her face on the left from forehead down to chin could use some smoothing. I would duplicate the layer and try the smudge tool. My actual preference would be to make a layer above, sample light and shadowed skin tones (consecutively of course) and paint with low opacity building up the color slowly. Don't zoom in tooooo close or you'll lose your perspective on the changes.
 
ibclare said:
I have one more suggestion . . . don't hate me . . .

My actual preference would be to make a layer above, sample light and shadowed skin tones (consecutively of course) and paint with low opacity building up the color slowly. Don't zoom in tooooo close or you'll lose your perspective on the changes.
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That's how I did most of mine. the clone stamp and healing brush only go so far. There are time when you have to get in there and straight up paint it. Sampling from from areas that you feel are the same as where you are painting. When I'm done painting the area in, if it's an area with out pattern, like skin or fabric I go back over it lightly with the clone stamp. Sampling from a similar area so as to give it the proper texture and pixelation. That helps to keep it from looking painted.
 
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