How to Remove Sunglare from a 360 Photograph

[SpongePudding]

Any ideas/suggestions as to how I might be able to improve/remove the sunglare from the left-hand side curtain?

I have tried, I really have, (in Affinity Photo. I also have Affinity Designer) but to no avail. So your help would be much appreciated!

 

As I'm not sure how to upload an 360 image the attached is just a standard .jpg file. 

 

Kind regards

 

[firstdefence]

Is there no way to retake the image? Have you tried the haze removal filter?

 

sunflare improved.afphoto I have saved the history with the file to show what I did.

 

 

[firstdefence]

Re a 360º image how is it formatted, what software created it, if it has multiple files place them in a folder and zip them up and upload the zip file here.

[carl123]

10 hours ago, firstdefence said:

 I have saved the history with the file to show what I did.

I can't see the history, are you sure you saved it?

[firstdefence]

3 minutes ago, carl123 said:

I can't see the history, are you sure you saved it?

Ill upload it again, the file is 13.7 mb.

sunflare improved.afphoto

[carl123]

Still cant see the history, either I'm doing something wrong or something weird is happening here

I am on Windows 8.0

I'll wait for someone else to come along and see what they see.

[Roger C]

Hi

I can't see the history either; though from the af.file, firstdefence's actions are clearly discernible.

But yes, Save History with Document is ticked in the file.

I'm on Windows 10.

Edited April 4, 2018 by Roger C
I clicked send before I'd finished!

[firstdefence]

I've figured it out, There is no history, I must have closed it down and wiped the history Doh! I'll try making a video later if I have some spare time sorry dudes. 

 

Basically I...

• Selected a lot of the back wall, some of the side wall on the left and the ceiling
• I used the Haze removal tool to try and get that mist off the image
• I tried doing some haze removal locally with the curtain but that was a big fail  so...
• I selected the curtain on the right, refined the selection by adding some feather.
• Copied and then pasted the curtain selection.
• Flipped it
• Moved it so it overlaid the left hand curtain.
• Did some erasing around the edge near the door,  a bit of position tweaking and finally some colour adjustment to match the colour of the curtain underneath.

That was the best I could do as I had to go out.

 

Ultimately these images need to be better taken and spending a bit more time taking multiple shots is big time saver over all. Taking a shot for the window and then for the interior would work quite well, also fill-in flash will also help. Better to slightly underexpose and bring the detail back

[SpongePudding]

Thank you 'firstdefence', much appreciated. And yes you're right, better taken and multiple images is going to save time, and frustration. Exposure Bracketing is my next port of call  

[SpongePudding]

'firstdefence' here is the 360 file as requested.

 

 

[R C-R]

8 minutes ago, lizziebenson said:

'firstdefence' here is the 360 file as requested.

I just see a broken link symbol for the file & a cryptic name for what I presume to be the file's name. Try zipping the file on your computer & dragging that into 'drag files here' section of the reply.

[SpongePudding]

Here you go R C-R.

Easier than i thought on a Mac

Sunglare_01CA.jpg.zip