How to take out the shiny part?

[mary]

Hallo all..
I would like to know how to take out the shiny part of a picture?
Tqs..

[Tamlin]

Not quite sure what you mean. Do you want to replace the light area with something else, or just reduce the glare?

[Jacorre]

If you mean remove the glare, try using the Burn tool, I believe that will darken up the area.

[supertackyman]

I would be tempted to try highlighting the bright area using the magic wand tool or magnetic lasso,
selecting the inverse, and then peforming a levels adjustment on the rest of the shot. and make the midtones a bit brighter.
that may "reduce" the glare effect just because the rest of the scene is not as dark by comparison.

thats just how i think.

[mary]

What I meant is to reduce the glare..but that's a good suggestion ; to replace the light area with something else....Well, as long as the pic look less glare

[mary]

Thanks for the tips guys!

[Tamlin]

I've tried both the tips suggested above on a copy of your image, and I wasn't happy with the results. The problem you have is that the highlights are completely blown in that area - meaning that it only contains white pixels - no other colour information.
The Burn tool works by darkening the colour of pixels, but if you "Burn" white pixels, you just get varying shades of grey, which looks kind of weird. supertackyman's method, while it does lighten the rest of the image, doesn't really help because the blown highlights are so obtrusive that your eye still fastens on them and your brain goes "Bright light! Bright light!".

One way to reduce it very slightly (so it still looks "real") would be to select the totally white area with the Magic Wand, expand the selection by about 30px (to include some of the "halo" around the light), copy this to a new layer with Ctrl+J and then change the Blending Mode of the new layer to Multiply. This won't have any effect on the pure white area, but it will reduce the "halo" to make it less obvious.

[wtonfox]

Thanks for the tips brothers!