Removing glare

[Rankin Johnson]

I took this picture from behind a chain-link fence. The glare on the right-hand side of the picture was caused by light hitting the fence.

What's the best way to remove the glare using Lightroom, or, I guess, Photoshop? I can use an adjustment brush to increase exposure and clarity, and dehaze, and then adjust saturation or white balance. But, because the glare has extremely soft edges, I can't get the area of repair to line up very well with the glare, leaving a ring or a weird blotchy pattern. Any suggestions, or is it just a matter of time and practice to use the adjustment brush?

Thanks,

-Rankin Johnson

 

[sabrina81]

My steps in Photoshop. USM settings: radius 150, amount 100%, threshold 7

 

[Pixel Poetry]

With Lightroom's brush tool.





With Photoshop.

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PX

 

[Babine]

Duplicate of original in ACR, basic sliders (contrast, saturation, etc) then Dehaze; in Ps, made a feather selection of the remaining haze, placed colour samplers 1 and 2 and used curves to match RGB values in #2 to #1; additional curves (final) for contrast, colours, etc., applied selectively via the mask.

Duplicate post-ACR



Final







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[asoftwind]

I moved a tree in there using a layer mask.









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[mikes]

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[Rankin Johnson]

Thanks very much for all the suggestions.

 

[Rankin Johnson]

How did you do that?

Thanks,

 

[mikes]

In Corel...

Dodge and Burn, then added some color back with the Hue and "Color Add" tool.

Mike