Blown Out Skin

[Olivia Price]

Hi everyone....it's me again

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to fix the blown out spot on her shoulder using Photoshop Elements 9? If so can someone tell me how or direct me to a tutorial? I've attempted several corrections that I have come across and have had no luck.

If not correctable in PSE and you know of a program that can fix it would you let me know what program that is?

Thanks!

[JFSanders]

You can use the dropper tool to select the unblown skin from her left arm just below the blouse sleeve and then mask it into the blown out section then blend it using the clone tool but you won't have much texture to work with. I did something similar in this edit but in NX2 you don't have to mask and such you just do a color edit and it does on the masking behind the scenes.

Jim

[edbayani]

i used cs2. selected her right shoulder and put it in another layer, flipped horizontally and aligned with the blown out dress. used layer mask to blend and fine tuned with dodge.birn and sponge tools.merged. selected the blown out skin with quckmasl and moved the selection to the skin below it put it in another layer and align with the lwn out skin and again layer mask to blend.

[SusanH1970]

The easiest way would be to use the recovery slider in ACR if you shot in RAW.

[Olivia Price]

Originally Posted by JFSanders

You can use the dropper tool to select the unblown skin from her left arm just below the blouse sleeve and then mask it into the blown out section then blend it using the clone tool but you won't have much texture to work with. I did something similar in this edit but in NX2 you don't have to mask and such you just do a color edit and it does on the masking behind the scenes.

Jim

Thanks Jim!! I tried something similar but it looked terrible Yours came out much better!

Originally Posted by edbayani

i used cs2. selected her right shoulder and put it in another layer, flipped horizontally and aligned with the blown out dress. used layer mask to blend and fine tuned with dodge.birn and sponge tools.merged. selected the blown out skin with quckmasl and moved the selection to the skin below it put it in another layer and align with the lwn out skin and again layer mask to blend.

Wow! That looks great! I wonder if I can do the same thing in PSE9? Fantastic job!

Originally Posted by SusanH1970

The easiest way would be to use the recovery slider in ACR if you shot in RAW.

Sadly I was not in RAW, I somehow switched my setting from RAW to something else and when I downloaded the pics it put them as JPEG. I will definitely be watching that more carefully in the future!