help saving my photo!

i love this photo, but as you can see...and i failed to see.....was the large sunshine orb right on his face! is there any way to get rid of it? besides trying to clone it out? can anyone help me




shutter speed 1/197
focal length 55.0mm
iso 400
aperature f 5.7

[xxpinballxx]

you might be able to make a feathered selection around it with just a tad bigger circle and then adjust exposure and levels to get it to match up.....after you get the tones to match take the heal brush in photoshop and go around the lines....I just did it really quick and it worked.... I think with a bit more time you can get rid of it quite easily.

Originally Posted by xxpinballxx

you might be able to make a feathered selection around it with just a tad bigger circle and then adjust exposure and levels to get it to match up.....after you get the tones to match take the heal brush in photoshop and go around the lines....I just did it really quick and it worked.... I think with a bit more time you can get rid of it quite easily.

can i see your edit if youve still got it? im not to good with the pp area. pretty much just the obvious stuff. but ill try my best
heres what i was able to do... still cant get the line of the circle to go away and there is also an edge of a second circle that i cant figure out how to fix...what more can i do?

[vsa]

With a bit of healing brush, curves, dodge and burn....



....and sorry I just couldn't leave the tiny dust particles and whatnot on the nose etc. >.<
If you want them back just say so. Matter of hiding a layer.

Originally Posted by vsa

With a bit of healing brush, curves, dodge and burn....



....and sorry I just couldn't leave the tiny dust particles and whatnot on the nose etc. >.<
If you want them back just say so. Matter of hiding a layer.

omg! thats amazing! im still pretty new with the whole pp thing. still looking for the healing brush lol, ill come across it one of these days and still havent mastered soem of the other tools. for some reason i cant see a difference when ever i use the dodge or burn tool. im probably just not using it right!?! ill keep practicing though! thanks again for the help!

[xxpinballxx]

VSA beat me to it......Good Job VSA! Looks great.......
amazing what can be done nowadays. Just proof if you learn the post work you can save much more than you throw out!

[vsa]

Originally Posted by ntinlizi

for some reason i cant see a difference when ever i use the dodge or burn tool. im probably just not using it right!?!

Dodge just brightens the image and burn makes it darker. Are you using them on empty layer? (that won't work )
A good way to do dodge/burn is to make new layer, set it to Linear dodge/Color dodge blending mode (or clr/lin burn if you want to do some burning) and paint (brush tool) with white (black for burn) on that. Low % of brush opacity works well (5% or even lower for subtle effects). This will affect all the layers below it without actually modifying the original layers.

In the image above most editing is done with healing brush though. If you want the .psd I can send it.

Love the photo btw. ^_^

[macroMe]

Originally Posted by vsa

. If you want the .psd I can send it.

I was reading through here and came across this statement. Have I got it right in that the .psd is a "walkthrough" of the steps you took in PP?

If so would you post them on here or send them to me. I am a complete PS gumby and am trying hard to learn how it all works and the .psd for this photo (if it is the PP history) would help me no end. I can follow through the process and try to emulate the great work that you have done on this photo.

I realise I am not the OP but I would love to know how you did it.

Thanks heaps.

[vsa]

.psd is the Photoshop document. All layers intact and so on, not like a tutorial but you can see what's been done if you flip the layers on and off.

I can make a tutorial out of this if you guys want.. and ntinlizi grants permission to use this image for that.

[macroMe]

Originally Posted by vsa

.psd is the Photoshop document. All layers intact and so on, not like a tutorial but you can see what's been done if you flip the layers on and off.

I can make a tutorial out of this if you guys want.. and ntinlizi grants permission to use this image for that.

Man. I would so love that - and thanks to ntinlizi for the photo use.
Even if I can just follow the dots that will give me some idea of how to move from dot A to dot B.