thechexican
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Hello Photoshop Gurus. First-time poster and intermediate-beginner image editor here, looking for some insight on how to best edit photos for work. I do office/website maintenance for a kitchen & bath remodeling sole proprietorship, and one of the projects that's landed on my desk is retouching photographs the boss has taken of his completed projects. One of the big things he wants done is the removal of hot spots caused by direct sunlight. I've experimented with a lot of different methods: clone stamping, healing brush, paint brush with sampled colors set to "color" blend mode at 30-50% opacity, but haven't really gotten much success. The best results I've had so far is copying the door on the other side of the photograph and applying warp transformations to get it to blend in (see image 2 below).
Just wanted to see if there's a better way I could go about editing out those hotspots and getting those areas of the image to match the color tone of the areas not been hit with direct sunlight. I know there's a lot of tools I don't know how to use efficiently that may be suited for the job such as using channels for compositing or the color match tool. With only so many hours in the day, thought it'd be better to ask the pros than to keep running with trial & error and hoping for something to stick.
Just wanted to see if there's a better way I could go about editing out those hotspots and getting those areas of the image to match the color tone of the areas not been hit with direct sunlight. I know there's a lot of tools I don't know how to use efficiently that may be suited for the job such as using channels for compositing or the color match tool. With only so many hours in the day, thought it'd be better to ask the pros than to keep running with trial & error and hoping for something to stick.