Getting rid of a sunburn?

[jrgarcia619]

Hey everyone. I have a photograph due for a class. I've got everything just about where I want it minus cropping but I'll leave that for last. The big thing I need to fix is the model's sunburn. I use masks often with my images but I'm not quite sure how to takle the problem with the sunburn. Has anyone done something like this before? Here's the image.

[teaking]

This may sound stupid but bear with me lol ... I have read this article on luminous landscapes using a saturation mask to help fix clipped channels. And sunburn is a higher saturation of red in the skin so maybe this could work anyways heres the link: Restore Those Clipped Channels

Would be great to hear the results and how you manage to fix this

[JAD40]

You can try masking the selected area, and feathering it a bit so it blends better. Then go into color balance, and move the slider with the red on one end towards the opposite direction.