double exposure

[rkymtnman30]

I have a picture of my daughter that is double exposed and as embarrassing as it is for me I have no idea where to start with it. I have adobe master collection CS4. What would I need or is it hopeless?

[CJ Swartz]

Ouch! I'm hoping that you have other frames that turned out better? (probably not, or you wouldn't be looking for a solution for this one ). Looks like she was on stage for an interview, and I'm sure you both would love a well-defined image as a memory, but this frame has motion blur, burned out highlights and no real definition of her face that I can see. You can clone out the effect of the second exposure, and sharpen the image a bit, but I can't think of a way to recreate details that aren't there. The green channel is a bit better than the red, but still don't see much facial detail there.

Hope someone has an idea that will work.

[rkymtnman30]

That's exactly the situation it was a talent show and this is the only one that has her face but of course the exposure was too slow. I imagine I am stuck with it. Thanks for the reply.

[CJ Swartz]

Hope someone can do better for dad... I opened it up in Camera Raw (even tho it isn't a raw file) and adjusted exposure downwards and Recovery (of highlights) all the way to the right, cropped, sharpened, applied a little noise removal, adjusted Vibrance, etc. before I opened PShop to clone out a bit of the doubles. Hope it helped a little bit?

[0lBaldy]

Originally Posted by rkymtnman30

I have a picture of my daughter that is double exposed and as embarrassing as it is for me I have no idea where to start with it. I have adobe master collection CS4. What would I need or is it hopeless?

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After a few curves and other corrections I cloned also