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I think the sky could be painted in (the frame on the left I ignored, but Clone Stamping it should not be difficult) and the effect on the person fairly well be reduced with one masked Curves Layer; if the Mask’s edges prove troublesome Clone Stamping on an overlying pixel layer may help.
Not exactly a 'fully sunglare removal' but hope this helps.
Clone Stamp tool, Color burn and Curve Adjustment with Tone, Color & Contrast adjustments in under 5 minutes.
This is what I came up with:
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100% MAX Quality 5.9 MB JPEG at: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57727070/DSC04203_optmzd_MAX.jpg
As Lundberg02 says, you need to learn Photoshop.
Image> Adjustments> Almost Everything. Also Crop Tool.
A little better. The problem with the photo was mostly blown out clouds and white balance.
Here's my try. The glare spot in the sky is burnt with 0 color values, I guess due to the 8bit compression and can't be pulled out without creating new values. I tried Content Aware fill and it worked well on a rough selection of the spot. I only had to paint touch the wall at the left.
The shirt, I painted over. Depending on the image and detail, I often spend less by painting over than using global adjustments. I just selected the shadowed (front) part of the tshirt use levels to darken a bit on a new layer and smoothed the transition with a soft brush, Then I painted some wrinkles with the brush referring to the original in a window beside. Then I added some sharpness and lighting on additional layers masked them out then reveal partially the mask by painting with the soft brash to lighten and sharpen some areas like the faces. I also pulled some details from the sky by using the shadows/highlights. Played about 15 min with this.
That's a design on the shirt? Ha ha. I know it is not a cast shadow from the girl and the light is from the left but I thought it is part of the defect - what ever it is glare, dirty lenses, splattered bugs, etc. LOL
Anyway if its only the sky the content aware fill does it nicely in one go. And for those like me who can't stand the so called "design" on the shirt can paint it over.
tillitea1,
The concept here escapes you. None of the examples shown here are meant as the successful "solution", as you call it. Each one merely hints at one or more of the infinite variety of editing possibilities offered by Photoshop.
To borrow your own terminology, there's no single "answer/tutorial/protocol etc" to correct this poorly-lit snapshot presented here as a JPEG from a consumer point-and-shoot Sony digicam.
A complete, final, "successful solution" is going to require substantial work and a combination of techniques.
The image below combines a variety of the techniques mentioned here. If it were my image and I considered it valuable enough, I'd work on it a while longer to improve it considerably.
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Full-size image at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57727070/DSC04203_optmzd_MAX.jpg
If the image had been shot as a raw file from a camera capable of recording raw images, there would be a lot more latitude to recover the blown parts.
If you feel you have been insulted I hope you can forgive those you feel wronged you, but I sure hope neither Marian nor Lundberg will be banned, because I think their knowledge (and humour) are of value for this Forum indeed.
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