bolo wrote:
> "dvus" <dven1@adelphia.invalid> wrote:
>> bolo wrote:
>>> "dvus" <dven1@adelphia.invalid> wrote:
>>>> bolo wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Spent a few very brief hours in Garden District of New Orleans a
>>>>> couple days ago. Beautiful scenery. I was so excited snapping
>>>>> away i did not realize i needed to adjust my polerazation filter
>>>>> to remove the glare. Any suggestions on fixing.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.cadotonic.com/garden
>>>>>
>>>>> I appreciate any suggestions i can get. Granny, KatWoman,
>>>>> Colin???
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>>> My stab at it:
>>>>
>>>> http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/...6686236964202][img=http://aycu36.webshots.com/image/45515/2000126686236964202_th.jpg
>>>>
>>>> (sorry about the 2 mile long url, it's a freebie)
>>
>>> I could not see anything here. Thanks for the attempt, could you
>>> tell me what you did to fix it?

>> [please don't top-post in here, it's a pain to reformat]
>>
>> It'd be a lot easier to tell you if you could see it, but of course,
>> like anything free, that image site doesn't work very intuitively.
>> Let me try another and I'll tell you what I did. You'll probably get
>> better work from the pros in here anyway.
>>
>> Wait, that url above is doubled up or something. Lemme try half of
>> it... http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/...26686236964202
>> seems to work ok.

> Actually devus, it looks great, now tell me what you did. I teach a
> beginning photoshop class, and i use these things you all tell me in
> my class.
>
> Thanks again!

[*please* don't top-post in here, it's a pain to reformat]

Ok. I simply grabbed a chunk of the shutter/wall above the flare with the
rectangular marquis, copied it and pasted it on top of the flare. I actually
forgot to feather it a little so I got those faint horizontal lines you can
see. The resolution of the original is pretty low, so you wouldn't want to
feather it more than a pixel or two. Then I used the clone tool to clean up
around the paste a little along with the dodge and burn tools at low
settings to avoid over-fix.

The faint flare above the window was easy since there's good image info
within, the burn tool at low settings took that right out. I thought about
masking it and using some adjustment like layers or darken/lighten but it's
easier to avoid edge artifacts if you do it by hand.

I noticed the glare on the back of the fence was a bit much so I selected
one area of it with the magic wand and then used Select/Similar to get the
rest. The trick for me is to experiment with the tolerance of the wand since
it also adjusts the tolerance of the Select/Similar operation. (I think I
used 16). I went into QuickMask mode to paint out some sections of the house
that got selected but I didn't want to touch and then used the Burn tool to
calm down the bright highlights a little.

That's pretty much it, if it were mine I'd adjust the Levels and bump up the
saturation slightly, but I'm assuming you have a higher resolution original
that you're going to work on so I didn't bother. However, keep in mind that
some of these guys in here are much more accomplished with Photoshop than I,
so you ought to wait and see if they have better advice. I'm just an amateur
that does it for fun.

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dvus