spot brightness

[cmbmick]

hi

have taken an otherwise nice picture , trouble is one part my niece has a white coat on and it has came out really bright.

the rest of the picture is fine , any tips on how i can reduce the glare from the coat part only?

is it possible ?

cheers in advance
Mick

[Nathan deGargoyle]

Hi Mick.

Did you shoot RAW or jpg? You stand a lot more chance of fixing it from RAW.

Can we see the pic?

[RePete]

If you have photoshop cs4 (may also work in cs3) you can a make an exposure mask and bring down the exposuure of the coat. Or you can do a selection of the coat (pen tool or magic wand) and use an adjustment layer to adjust the brightness/contrast of the selected area. Something I am still experimenting with myself.