Please need help fixing photo

KMW

I did a beach photo session for some close friends of mine and I think they would love this photo but there's a shadow on her face. I have tried cloning out the shadow on her face but cannot make it look natural. Could somebody please help me with this? I would really appreciate it! Thanks in advance!

jfriend

KMW wrote:

I did a beach photo session for some close friends of mine and I think they would love this photo but there's a shadow on her face. I have tried cloning out the shadow on her face but cannot make it look natural. Could somebody please help me with this? I would really appreciate it! Thanks in advance!

There are many rich options for fixing this, but have you tried the simplest thing I can think of - shadow/highlights. Try a shadow adjustment of Tonal Width = 22%, Amount = 55%, Radius = 30px or tweak it yourself from there. This will open up some detail on the shady side of both faces.

KMW

jfriend wrote:

There are many rich options for fixing this, but have you tried the simplest thing I can think of - shadow/highlights. Try a shadow adjustment of Tonal Width = 22%, Amount = 55%, Radius = 30px or tweak it yourself from there. This will open up some detail on the shady side of both faces.

Thanks for your advice. I have photoshop elements 5 and don't think I can enter the exact shadow adjustment. I tried the sliders and color curves but it just doesn't look right. I guess I don't have any other options. I'll just have to make sure I don't make that mistake again in the future. Thanks again.

BinaryFx

You use Nikon gear, do you have Nikon PictureProject software (look on your Nikon CD's)? This software has a D-Light featre, not as good as Photoshop shadow/highlight - but better than nothing! Some models have this built into the camera, it works on the JPG, if you shoot raw camera data and not JPG, one can attempt to fix this in the raw converter too.

Online, there is:

http://www.shadowilluminator.org/

I would not give up on APSE yet, but it is not going to be as full featured as Photoshop for correcting this in an easy fashion (but the free powertools from Richard Lynch may help with some things).


Good luck,

Stephen Marsh.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/

pemmett

I tried and this is what I came up with.



If you send me the hi-res image I can do the same and send it back to you. It was a lot harder than I thought :-) You can send it to my email address emmett.photography@gmail.com

KMW

Thank you for your suggestion and link BinaryFX....I did shoot in raw. I'm still learning how to process raw files and was unable to fix it in the converter.

Pemmet...I love what you did it with it. I would really appreciate it if you could help me out with this. I will email you a high resolution jpeg. If your up for it and want to try it on the hi-res image. Please don't spend too much time on it. Thanks!

BinaryFx

KMW wrote:

Thank you for your suggestion and link BinaryFX....I did shoot in raw. I'm still learning how to process raw files and was unable to fix it in the converter.

In the current version of ACR/ALR, on the first basic tab - adjust the fill light slider.

The old, free Pixmantec Raw Shooter Essentials has a fill light slider too, but it is a crapshoot if your camera is supported.

As the slider only has one control, there is not much to 'learn' (unlike shadow/highlight in Photoshop where things are more complex).


Stephen Marsh.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/