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Can these images be edited? help needed!


Feojcr

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Hi,

This is a photo of my boyfriend and his favourite rugby player Dan Carter. As you can see there is a lot of glare from the sun in this image, I am no photo shop expert and have been trying to get it to a standard that you would be able to see the image and hopefully print it off for him as a present. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks
Jen
 

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Tom Mann

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The top 10 or 15% of this photo is essentially a complete loss. In that area, there is so little real information to work with that, IMHO, the only way to fix this is to find another picture of the guy in the middle, do a head swap, remove the background, replace it with something featureless (eg, a blue sky), and then try to save the remainder of the image (which will be no small feat, itself). Such work could easily take a half hour or more by someone good at Photoshop, and the result would always look odd / unrealistic, at best.

The take-home message from problem photos like this is that literally, just a couple of seconds of your time, taken at the time of taking the shot, would have completely eliminated this problem. All you had to do was check the image immediately after you took it, and when you saw what had happened, then step a foot or two to your left or right, so that the sun would not be shining directly on your lens. Another way to reduce the severity of this type of problem is to make sure the lens on your camera / cell phone is always kept scrupulously clean.

Sorry we can't offer a magic fix.

Tom M
 

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