Glare on Glasses

[nebgranny]

Can some please help me learn how to get rid of the glare on the glasses in this photo. Please if responding can you give a step by step process of what to do?

A net friend wants to print the picture out for her parents for Christmas, but does not like the glare. Thanks Neb

[DaveS]

Hi Neb,
If the other eye has no glare on it I would be inclined to copy that paste onto its own layer flip it, transform it and then with a layer mask blend it into the glared lense.
Otherwise it is a case of cloning, healing, selecting good bits of the image to use as I have done then a little bit of smudge and blur to breing everything together. Did not have much time to spend on the eye, you could use one from another photo of the subject.
Hope that is of some help,
Dave

[Cameraken]

Hi Neb.

Have you seen Flora’s new tutorial. It’s perfect for this type of repair.

http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=206


Ken

[philbach]

Katrin Eisman 2nd edition Restoration and Retouching has a few pages on this problem. Yes it is helpful to see the other eye. In this case I copied the eye to another layer as a back up and then on a layer above that I corrected the problem.

In this case I selected areas adjacent to the reflections and then used the move tool plus the option/alt key to copy the selection and move it to a reflected area. But I had to draw in a lot of the eye in this case.

I didn't place a highlight on the eye since I didn't know where to put it.

[nebgranny]

Dave,Ken,Phil. Thank you all for the help and suggestions. I have not looked at Flora's tutorial yet. Some of the functions mentioned I am not that good at. I am posting both eyes, as you might see the other side of photo is pretty bright with the sun on the face.

The post includes the eye I tried to do before anyone had posted suggestions. It is not the best..and a little too dark under her eye. What could i have done to lighten it a bit? Thanks Neb

[nebgranny]

Here is the picture...

[Cameraken]

Hi Neb.

Well done you are getting there.
You need to add some noise to your corrections. It will make it look more realistic.
I found some time to try this. This is done entirely with Flora’s tutorial.
You don’t need the shadow/highlight bit. Just scroll down to BLANK/EMPTY LAYERS SET TO....

Ken

[nebgranny]

Ken my friend said mine looked like I gave her a black eye!! Your's looks great. Now how did you get everything so even ? I am now making changes using Flora's tutorial as you suggested. I picked a place which is too light, I have used psp in the past and it has a history palette and you can make as many undo's at once as need be, Does photoshop have an option to do the same? I want to start over?? I guess I could just delete the whole blank layer as well. but have been wanting to ask about the undo availability for some time now. Neb

[philbach]

Well There are several ways to lighten up portions of the eye. Almost all of them require that you place another layer on top of the layer you are correcting.
Copy the layer and place a layer mask on that layer. Use screen blending mode to lighten the layer. Select the mask and fill it black to hide the layer then paint the mask with white to bring out the brightness of the layer in the area that needs it.

Or add a an adjustment curves layer and brighten it that way. Or a levels adjustment layer and again use the mask to show what needs to be shown.

There are several more but the general principal is that you work on a separate layer so you don't ruin your original.

Photoshop does have a history palette which by itself can be helpful. It also offers another way to lighten a subject by using the history brush

[Photo678]

edit: taken care of

[Flora]

Hi,

good job everybody!!

Neb,

Yes, a bit on the dark side but a good start!

I'm in a bit of a hurry right now, but, as Ken pointed out, I mostly used The blank Layers technique described in my tutorial ... (for your picture, Blank Layers set to: Darken, Lighten, Overlay) ... Please, let me know if you need more details...

Photo678,

Glad everything got cleared!!

P.S. In cases like this, It is always better to post 'both eyes' since, if nothing else helps, it still could be possible to copy and paste ...

[nebgranny]

Thanks everyone for working and helping with this image. I tried your tutorial Flora( thank you Ken for the suggestion). Did you lighten the whole side of the face? I am posting my first try!! Please give futher suggestions please.

Phil I am going to study your techniques as well. Thanks Dave for trying . Neb

[Cameraken]

Hi Neb.

Yes. I did lighten my picture (Levels). But I had not seen your post of both eyes. Use Shadow/Highlight to balance both sides of the face instead.

Some detail is lost in the rim of the glasses. If you have used a blank layer for the corrections then you will just be able to erase the bit that has spilt onto the glasses frame.

Ken

[Flora]

Hi,

Neb,

.... I just don't seem to be able to 'catch up' regularly .... sorry ....

Anyway, here is what I did...

First I run the image through Shadow/Highlights to lighten it up a bit ....

... then, usually, in these cases, if possible, I tend to borrow from the other eye, but here I had only one to work on ....so I used Katrin Eismann's 'Copy and Paste Into' technique ....

Here is how I did it:

* Selected an oval of 'good skin' right under the glasses rim and lightly feathered it .... the oval selection was big enough to cover the glare. (Attachment 1)

* With the oval selection still active ... (marching ants around it) I pressed 'CTRL + C' to copy it and CTRL + D to 'deselect'.

* Selected and lightly feathered around the glare .... (Attachment 2)

* With the glare selection still active ... (marching ants around it) I went to Edit > Paste Into (or simply press CTRL + SHIFT + V).

If necessary, I use the 'Move' Tool (Auto select Layer and Show Tranform Controls boxes checked ... on PS top bar) and 'stretch/turn etc.' the pasted object into position ...

* In Attachment 3 you can see the result ... which, of course, must be adjusted for light, shadow, luminosity, noise etc.

Attachment 4 is a snapshot of my 'workflow' for your picture ....

Hope this helps .... and sorry again for my delayed answer ....