Affinity Photo Picture Reflection Removal

[Cecil]

I'll attach a cutout, from a photo, of a nasty reflection. I would appreciate any suggestions or AP tutorials that would assist in removing the reflection.  This photo captured a special moment and cannot be retaken.  I have search and failed to source a method to remove reflection.  Thank you.  

[DWright]

There is no quick way to remove the reflection you can use the burn tool to darken the light areas of the photo and the dodge tool to lighten the dark areas

[Alfred]

That looks like a photo of a framed photo. When you say that the photo cannot be retaken, are you saying that the original photo (i.e. the one in the frame) is no longer available?

[Cecil]

46 minutes ago, Alfred said:

That looks like a photo of a framed photo. When you say that the photo cannot be retaken, are you saying that the original photo (i.e. the one in the frame) is no longer available?

The action, documenting the first day of school, is taken each year, with the twins holding original picture in frame, from their first day in preK.  So it is once, each year the picture is taken.  We hope to have a total of 13 years, plus college documenting their growth each year.

i guess I could remove original picture from frame, take picture of it, crop and try to paste.  My hope, experts in the forum have develop a method to do this within AP.  Agin, my thanks.

[carl123]

You need to take the picture out of the frame, scan it to a jpg file then work on that jpg file in AP or upload that jpg to this thread for proper advice.

If you don't have a scanner, check with friends and family to see if they have one, or some shops (depends where you live) can do it for you and then email you the jpg

[Cecil]

On 6/27/2019 at 9:42 AM, carl123 said:

You need to take the picture out of the frame, scan it to a jpg file then work on that jpg file in AP or upload that jpg to this thread for proper advice.

If you don't have a scanner, check with friends and family to see if they have one, or some shops (depends where you live) can do it for you and then email you the jpg

Thank you. Yes I know that there are several methods as you suggested.  My goal was to see if tools, available in APh could do the job.  Not saying the program is lacking, just that I did not know “How” to do it, if it could be done using only APh.  We have amazing members that can pull off impossible fixes. I see this problem, in many other situations, that APh tools and actions could be applied.  Just waiting for one member, with the workaround, within APh.