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Post by laurenjay on Feb 19, 2022 22:31:38 GMT
I have Photoshop Elements 9. A photo that is special to me has very uneven exposures. Part of one of the faces is blown out. I know I have to add pigment with the clone tool. Can anyone please tell me all the steps I need to do to get a reasonably nice result?
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Post by Sepiana on Feb 19, 2022 23:21:41 GMT
Hi laurenjay, long time no see. Welcome back! It's not easy to address the issue you describe without seeing the photo; Elements offers more than one way to fix faces with blown-out areas. I'm going out on a limb here and suggesting using the Brush tool instead of the Clone Stamp tool. Fix Blown Out Faces With Photoshop Elements
Let us know if this helps! If not, we can go back to the drawing board. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 19, 2022 23:37:32 GMT
I saved this from the old site before it closed; I do not know who to attribute it to.
The title was "Even Skin Tones"
In the instructions, replace "forehead" with "blownout area"
{{{ Open the picture file
Duplicate the background layer, and desaturate the background copy layer to make it black/white (Enhance menu>convert to b/w)
Using one of the selection tools (e.g. lasso) select the forehead
Place forehead on a separate layer (CTRL+J) and rename it to forehead
Open a brightness/contrast adjustment layer above the forehead layer. Group these 2 layers (CTRL+G). Darken the forehead with the slider, and increase contrast slightly to match the desaturated layer below
Merge down to merge the adjustment layer and the forehead layer
Delete the desaturated background copy layer below
All that you should have left at this point is the original background layer and the forhead layer
Change the blending mode of the forehead layer to luminosity
With the eyedropper tool, sample good skin color - the neck looks good
Open a blank layer at the top of the stack of layers, change blending mode to color. With a soft brush @50% opacity paint over the forehead }}}
I have used a procedure lighten shadowed areas of faces with the Clone Tool, set on 50% opacity and Mode = Lighten; I figure the same procedure would darken blownout areas if the Mode is set to Darken.
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Post by Sepiana on Feb 19, 2022 23:57:28 GMT
I have Photoshop Elements 9. A photo that is special to me has very uneven exposures. Part of one of the faces is blown out. laurenjay, I just thought of another way to address this issue -- the burning technique. Matt Kloskowski wrote an excellent (and detailed) tutorial for the PET magazine (no longer published) -- Heighten Drama with Dodge and Burn, vol. 6, no. 5, Sep/Oct 2009, p. 5. You can download this issue. It is FREE!!! completedigitalphotography.com/pet/september-october-2009-vol-6-no-5/NOTE:You may want to first make some basic adjustments such as Levels or Shadows/Highlights before doing the burning. The advantage of using a lower Opacity is that it will allow you to build up the burning effect. You can paint by using multiple strokes over the same area. Or, if the resulting effect is too strong, you can tone it down by further reducing the Opacity. Because you will be doing the burning on a separate layer, you will have more editing flexibility. You can also adjust the layer's Opacity if the results are still too strong. And, if you don't like the results at all? Just delete this layer and start over. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 20, 2022 3:12:05 GMT
I will offer even another method:
If one side of the face is good and the other blown out, depending on the orientation/angle of the face, I have been guilty of drawing a selection around the good area, Ctl + J to copy the selection on a separate layer; then, Image >Rotate > Flip Layer 180°; use the Move tool to place and situate the new "patch" and whatever tools suitable to blend the patch into place.
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