SoCal OG Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Looking for some guidance on the attached image. For the life of me I cant seem to figure out how to reduce/remove the bright spot on the side of the subjects face. Any suggestions/methods to try would be appreciated! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted October 23, 2018 Staff Share Posted October 23, 2018 Hi @SoCal OG , I don't think there's much you can do. You have got pure white in that area, so you lost all de details. Thanks, Gabe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 R C-R, Mithferion, SrPx and 6 others 1 1 7 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCal OG Posted October 23, 2018 Author Share Posted October 23, 2018 3 minutes ago, carl123 said: lol...thats a good one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 You might try to fake it by cloning skin to a burned spot but it is not easy to make it look natural. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Yip I too would try here what @Fixx suggested, using the clone and healing tools and fake the face sides skin and hair accordingly. Also if you have a similar pose photo from your face, then you can maybe also adapt from that one some of the blown out portions. Here is just a rough unfinished tryout to give you a quick idea ... @carl123 nice one LOL. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCal OG Posted October 23, 2018 Author Share Posted October 23, 2018 3 minutes ago, v_kyr said: Yip I too would try here what @Fixx suggested, using the clone and healing tools and fake the face sides skin and hair accordingly. Also if you have a similar pose photo from your face, then you can maybe also adapt from that one some of the blown out portions. Here is just a rough unfinished tryout to give you a quick idea ... @carl123 nice one LOL. Hmmm...I'll give this a try. The above is not terrible, better than the white. Good idea on the clone...maybe I can clone side of face from another shot and try to blend it in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 The main difficulty is to clone/adapt some of the skin tone coloring, so it looks more natural and less faked. But with some tryout passion you should get better looking results than the above or initial one. Good luck! Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Having tried all of the main options I've just had an idea for using the smudge tool and using a textured brush, then creating a pixel layer and cloning from the layer beneath (the image) to the pixel layer and changing the blend mode to luminosity. This is a rough sketch of what you can achieve. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCal OG Posted October 24, 2018 Author Share Posted October 24, 2018 Thanks for all the replies and suggestions. I gave up on trying to blend/clone it in and just ended up playing with levels, brightness, dodge, burn etc. to lessen the effect. This is what I ended up with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 Nice work, it is very close to what I had a play with yesterday (see below) Glad you kept it natural, too many photographers would discard a picture with blown highlights, whereas I think they add to the picture sometimes Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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