How to remove a sunburst from an image

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January 21, 2024
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I shot right into the sun and have a starburst which I would like to trim down

When I have used the burn tool it looked way fake

When I used the lasso or the rectangle marquee tool and adjusted exposure it was clearly a manipulation as it stuck out as adjusted

I am sure there is a way to do this but I don't know how to do it so it doesnt look like a rectangle or an oval in the middle of the image

Photo attached and thanks

Mark

macOS

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Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

The bottom 3 images were using generative fill with a prompt of "remove lens flare".

The top 3 images were using a generative fill field that was blank.

In both cases, there was a very rough selection around the entire lens flare area.

None of these are perfect, but some would allow selective replacement of the tree trunk, or a start point for retouching in the colour difference of the sky etc.

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Mark30CrotonAuthor

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Thanks. I'll try it

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

I haven't downloaded your image as I'm replying from my phone, the RGB channels of a rendered file will likely have no details to recover. Even a raw format file will have challenges, however it will allow much greater highlight recovery. Did you shoot raw?