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Originally Posted by delph99
Wow i'm impressed! You guys just took this and ran with it! Is there sample of your fixed pic? did you select the blown out areas and then paint a color layer over it? You used the Burning tool after adding the color layer? I know enough to be dangerous with photoshop but i'm having a little trouble following what exactly you are doing. You guys are intense and WAY above my level and I WANT TO GET THERE!!!! Hopefully i'll learn one problem at a time......
thanks!
lisa
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Hi Lisa - yeah, sorry about the geek-speak. I guess we got a little carried away with the "challenge" of finding a good way to fix your photo! I don't know about the other guys, but my initial plan was to work out (for myself) an effective technique for fixing it, and then post a step-by-step guide so you could follow on with your own copy of the photo - we believe very strongly in trying to teach beginners
how to achieve something (rather than just doing it for them) - but Kenneth beat me to it with his excellent effort.
Ken may well give you a run-down of his technique so you can understand it better, but in the meantime here is a link to a Photoshop tutorial that uses a very similar technique (painting skin colour back onto a separate layer):
Photoshop Tutorials - Fix Blown Out Skin
Give it a go - I think we'd all like to see what you make of it yourself.