Remove Window Relfections

[Ken45140]

Can you tell me what (in the world) I might do to try and get rid of the window reflections in this image and bring out the great looking squirrel staring back at me. Is it even possible?

Thanks for any suggestions. (I use PSPx primarily but have PS7).

Ken

[yuccaview]

Here is a quick fix in CS2. A couple of selections, some levels and healing brush.
Don

[Dave.Cox]

Quick fix? I'd say it looks pretty good yuccaview. :-)

[DCobb]

This is my try. Not as good, however, as Yuccaview's work above. His has excellent color matching on the fence among other things.

dc

[Britsdad]

Yuccaview....this is exellent, how'd you do that?
John

[yuccaview]

Hi ya'll
I just selected the washed out areas used a bit of feather on the selections.
Adjusted to match as close as it would match then deselected it and adjusted the
entire image.I used levels to pop it and the history brush to paint back in
what blew out.Used a little clone and healing to fix the rest.
Pretty nice photo.
Don

[Ken45140]

Don: thanks for the explanation. I am off to try it. No healing bruch in PSPx so I will see what I can do with the tools I have.

Ken

[Ken45140]

Don, can you help with a little more detail. I selected the triangular area on the lower left, and tried various adjustments with a number of trial and error blend modes. On the lighter washed out area, I got close to the wood rail but there was a line (feather didn't seem to help), On the really whitish triangle...never got rid of remnants. Any more detail from you or others would really be helpful.

Ken

[yuccaview]

Ken,
Where the lines showed I just cloned out, big brush and soft edges in the greens small brush on the ledge.Some of the areas I used just a soft brush with color only and picked a color to fine tune what ever needed tweeked.
The healing brush is almost worth the price of CS, I have almost worn mine out. Probably used the burn tool some to get the density close in those lighter areas.
Hope this helps.
Don

[Gary Richardson]

Just a quick go.

Cropped first to minimise amount of work to do.

Selected and adjusted, cloned out joins.

Colour corrected and sharpened.

Thought Green BG overpowered things a tad, so desaturated greens a touch in BG area.

[Kraellin]

i used masks. start on the right and make a mask that just shows the least amount and have that part as a show all. make your corrections for color, definition and brightness/contrast to suit. this sets your standard for the rest of the image.

then invert or make a new mask of the rest, also a show all, but now make the first part hidden or hide all. make your corrections for the middle area.

then, doing the same for the first parts, hide all, make the third part in the lower left a new mask with show all. make corrections for just this part now. this one is the worst and you wont get it all with just adjustments and filters. there will be some hand work.

once all the parts are adjusted as good as possible with masks, go ahead and clone out the rest of the reflections in the lower left and adjust as necessary. i used clone and airbrush.

then do a global color balance, usm or anything else you feel is necessary.

i also went ahead and cropped and cloned out the yellow highs in the background.

this was all using psp xi.

[Ken45140]

Thanks for all the help.

The attached seems ok, not quite as good as some of the examples you all posted but pretty good nonetheless. The biggest step to make the thing easier was to crop out most of the lower left reflection--cloning and adjustments made the rest ok.

Ken

[Kraellin]

looks good, ken.

i think you lost a bit of the reds, but looking at mine now, i think i've got too much blue, so, go figure