How to remove a shadowed area from a photo

[Pamela306608222hbd]

I have a photo that is poor quality and has a shadow over part of the image. Is there a way to remove this? See attached photo.

[Bojan Živković]

This is a challenge for experienced users. You need to select the shadowed area and then use curves, for instance, to lighten the shadowed area, followed by Hue/Saturation to adjust the temperature, as the non-shadowed part of the photo has a yelowish tint.

Perhaps someone else can devise a quicker and simpler method. This is what first occurred to me after viewing your photo.

[AxelMatt]

Another idea is to the correction as @Bojan Živković mentioned. Create a group of all of these adjustment layers and create a black mask for this group. Paint with a white brush to make the corrections visible in the shadow areas.

But I think you can't eliminate the shadow area complete so you don't see it.

[Lumigraphics]

Use a Luminosity mask to select just the shadowed area. That should make a curves adjustment much easier.

[c.pfaffenbichler · Accepted solution]

The edges may need to be additionally corrected.