ugly green, blown out spot

[The_Traveler]

I can manage everything about making this image ok except the burnt out, tinged area on his lift hand.

Any hints how I can add texture and remove this ugly yellow tinge to this spot?

Thanks in advance.

Lew

[Daviskw]

Hi there

I just made a loose selection of the area then used a curves adjustment to decrease yellow and increase magenta... Then hid all on the mask and painted back in with a low opacity brush.

Butch

[Swampy]

I did about the same thing. Made a loose selection of the yellow area, Did a Selective Color adjustment (pop up the "Colors chooser) on the yellows. Decreased yellow and added some magenta and a touch of blue. Gausian blur the mask.

[HroadhogD1]

I also did about the same as above. I made a selection of the hand, cloned the spot out on the side of the hand, and used selective color on the rest using the yellow.

[The_Traveler]

thanks for such quick response.
Any hints to to fake the missing texture?

[HroadhogD1]

Not sure what you are looking for, but I added some noise to the hand.

[Photo678]

overall the whole image is very yellow.....add some blue, and that should cover the hand issue.

[Daviskw]

Hi again

There is not a lot of grain detail or texture in your picture... However if you want to add some texture you can do the following;

Find a highres picture of the side of a hand... I used the stock.xchng.

I copied the section needed to a new layer

I desaturated the skin.

Then used the highpass filter adding enough to capture the skin texture.

I then copied this layer and placed it into your picture... rotated as needed then changed the blendmode to overlay

I then sharpened this layer only to bring out the texture.

I added a mask and blended as needed.

Below this layer I filled a solid layer with skin color then reduced opacity as needed.

Butch

[unimatrix001]

i duplicated the layer, used eyedropper tool to select a color from just out side the damaged area. added new layer set blending mode to color and painted over the damaged area reduced opacity to 69 percent.

[BillFrey]

Converted to cmyk and found the blown out area in the magenta channel. I burned the highlights until it matched the surrounding values.

Edit: changed pix to lighten hand a little.

[chillin]

I used Match Color with the bottom part of the hand
then some blending & adjustments

[Swampy]

It just amazes me that there are so many ways to achieve the same end!

[DCobb]

Just wanted to give this a try.

1. Blank Layer
2. Color
3. Healing brush
4. Blur tool
5. Color adjustment
6. Third party airbrush

dc