PS7 advice needed (img)

Lee H · May 4, 2003

Can any of you PS7 experts advise, I’m so used to adjusting for underexposure, I’m clueless with overexposure.
Can anything be done with an image such as this?

I’m not concerned with the shirt just the face, this is a crop from an image of my 4 year old daughter,

Thanks
Lee

simon · May 4, 2003

Lee,

I have attempted a few times to recover shots such as this in PS - it's nigh imposible as basically there is no data left to work with.

My solution (quickest and easiest) was to re-shoot subject.

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Simon, Sydney

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Lee

Marky boy · May 4, 2003

Hi Lee

the highlights are completely blown especially round the nose bridge area onto the cheeks.

I downloaded your picture and tried everything I know in PS7 including isolating the blown area to try and recover, but the detail is just not there.

You might ber able to falsy recover using the cloning tool, however unless there ws no way to shoot again, the time spent doing this would not justify the outcome - simply re-shoot.

Also you may need to try metering form the facial area to avoid this happening next time using the exposure lock to do so.

Regards

Mark

Mark

Lee H said:
Can any of you PS7 experts advise, I?m so used to adjusting for
underexposure, I?m clueless with overexposure.
Can anything be done with an image such as this?
I?m not concerned with the shirt just the face, this is a crop from
an image of my 4 year old daughter,

Thanks
Lee

Lee H · May 4, 2003

I feared as much, I'd mistakenly centre weighted on the hair, then reframed.

I had hoped that there might be a way, but if the information isn't available.....guess it's yet another one down to the learning curve.
Regards
Lee

Dave Harpe · May 4, 2003

I sympathize. Last night I took a group shot and did a poor job of shot setup and metering. I blew out the highlights on one of the people in the shot with no chance of making it look right. Can't reshoot it either.

In my shot, one person was really close to a light source. I matrix metered when I should have spot metered on the brighter person. Then I could have recovered the folks in the shadows later.

IMHO it's one of the reasons that Nikon chose to have the D100 underexpose in most situations. It's much easier to recover from a one-stop underexposure than it is to save a one-stop overexposure.

Dave
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Lee H said:
I feared as much, I'd mistakenly centre weighted on the hair, then
reframed.
I had hoped that there might be a way, but if the information isn't
available.....guess it's yet another one down to the learning curve.
Regards
Lee

Mike Roedel · May 4, 2003

I'm by no means even close to a PS expert, but I just had to give it a shot. Plus I needed something to do while lunch was heating up ;-). I've recovered a shot or two with this technique, but as the others mentioned, there is not quite enough to work with here...

Here's the result of my 15 minute attempt.

Used Magnetic lasso tool to select her face and neck.
Removed eyes from the selection.
Brought up a levels window (ctrl-L on a PC).
Moved the shadow slider from 0 to about 110.

Lee H said:
Can any of you PS7 experts advise, I’m so used to adjusting for
underexposure, I’m clueless with overexposure.
Can anything be done with an image such as this?
I’m not concerned with the shirt just the face, this is a crop from
an image of my 4 year old daughter,

Thanks
Lee

David Goolsby · May 4, 2003

Does this work for you.

http://homepage.mac.com/david_g_force/FileSharing9.html

David

Lee H said:
Can any of you PS7 experts advise, I?m so used to adjusting for
underexposure, I?m clueless with overexposure.
Can anything be done with an image such as this?
I?m not concerned with the shirt just the face, this is a crop from
an image of my 4 year old daughter,

Thanks
Lee

David Goolsby · May 4, 2003

Sorry! Wrong link for the wrong forum!
Try this.

David

David Goolsby said:
Lee H said:

Can any of you PS7 experts advise, I?m so used to adjusting for
underexposure, I?m clueless with overexposure.
Can anything be done with an image such as this?
I?m not concerned with the shirt just the face, this is a crop from
an image of my 4 year old daughter,

Thanks
Lee

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Peter Dove · May 4, 2003

It looks better downsized but let me know if it is what you are after

Lee H said:
Can any of you PS7 experts advise, I’m so used to adjusting for
underexposure, I’m clueless with overexposure.
Can anything be done with an image such as this?
I’m not concerned with the shirt just the face, this is a crop from
an image of my 4 year old daughter,

Thanks
Lee

Lee H · May 5, 2003

That's about as good as I had hoped, What did you do David?
Regards
Lee

David Goolsby said:
Sorry! Wrong link for the wrong forum!
Try this.

David

Eric Cohen · May 5, 2003

David Goolsby said:
David

David Goolsby said:

Lee H said:

Can any of you PS7 experts advise, I?m so used to adjusting for
underexposure, I?m clueless with overexposure.
Can anything be done with an image such as this?
I?m not concerned with the shirt just the face, this is a crop from
an image of my 4 year old daughter,

Thanks
Lee

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Farid · May 5, 2003

When you use the eydropper and look in the pixelinfo of PS, you can try to judge if there can be some improvement or not. when the pixels are white 100 % you can only get them more grey. Of course you can then colorize them but it seems to me that this results are unuseless. If there are still colors in the pixels, select the area using a feather, go to the levels menu and change the mid and high tone levels. Then increase saturation an bit. Some additional cloning can give more improvement. But remember, when the lights are totaly blast, there is no perfect rescue.

Peter Dove said:
Lee H said:

Can any of you PS7 experts advise, I’m so used to adjusting for
underexposure, I’m clueless with overexposure.
Can anything be done with an image such as this?
I’m not concerned with the shirt just the face, this is a crop from
an image of my 4 year old daughter,

Thanks
Lee

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David Goolsby · May 5, 2003

Hi Lee. Hi Eric.

The first thing you want to do is create a duplicate layer but changing the type from 'Normal' to 'Multiply'. You then adjust the opacity slider to your liking. Once the opacity gives you the overall look that you want then merge the layers. I then used the 'Healing Brush' (bandage) setting the anchor point to an area of the body that had color to it and didn't have blown out highlights (in this case her chin). You MUST use very small strokes when brushing out the blown cheek highlights as large bold movements will cause you to move the anchor point to an area you don't want to copy color from.

I hope this helped.

David

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