Haze on walls from light outside of the windows

[Bill-Beaver]

How, in Photoshop can I get rid of the haze (coming from the windows) on the wall?

 

[lacogada]

Should set up tripod and take a few shots.
Expose for outside ... expose for inside ... then blend or mask.

Below in PSCS6 ... Color balance adjustment layer, curves, and brush painting.

 

[ishwanu]

How, in Photoshop can I get rid of the haze (coming from the windows) on the wall?

If you're talking about the bluish tints adjacent to the blown out areas, they can be mitigated with cloning tools.

 

[Bill-Beaver]

How do I mitigate?

 

[ishwanu]

How, in Photoshop can I get rid of the haze (coming from the windows) on the wall?

If you're talking about the bluish tints adjacent to the blown out areas, they can be mitigated with cloning tools.

How do I mitigate?

Do you not know how to use cloning tools? That's what I used here:


Original


Not perfect, but mitigated

 

[Erik Baumgartner]

If you hadn't blown out the highlights, just the Defringe tool in ACR/Lightroom would have taken care of the fringing issues with the RAW file.without too much trouble..

 

[s_grins]

How, in Photoshop can I get rid of the haze (coming from the windows) on the wall?

I do not use Photoshop for more than decade now. But you can do it in PS

I follow old trick for shooting high contrast interiors - take exposure from windows, lift up dark interior during PP

So, after copying your posted photo, firstly I have reduced overall exposure, and after that I lifted up midtones and shadows. The result could be better with original RAW file.

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[HarwoodF]

How, in Photoshop can I get rid of the haze (coming from the windows) on the wall?

I'll do a partial edit to illustrate the technique I would use.


1. Select the wall that has the hazy areas.


2., Open a blank layer, use that selection to create a layer mask, and change blend mode to Lighten.

3. Paint on this layer using a large, soft brush (0% hardness) and a low brush opacity (I used 10% opacity). Sample the paint outside the hazy areas and paint with that color over the haze. Build color slowly and gently. As you move around the window, keep sampling outside the hazy areas. The "repair" color changes as you move around, so you need to sample often to avoid hard color transitions. Result:



Just to clarify about sampling color for painting. Keep sample size small, maybe 5x5:



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Harwood

 

[Bill-Beaver]

Thank you for the great graphic explanation, that really improved the photo.