This tutorial mainly introduces how to repair photos with strong light on the face or other places. Principle: We can understand a picture illuminated by strong light as the superposition of highlights and the original photo. We only need to create a highlight area and fill it with highlight color, and then it is easy to restore the original image through special overlay of layers. This is just a bold attempt!
Original picture
final effect
1. Open the original image and press Ctrl + J to copy a layer. Change the blending mode of the copied layer to "Difference", then fill the background with black, then create a new layer above the background layer, and set the foreground color to : #FFE8BF, and then use the brush tool to paint on the overexposed areas, as shown in Figure 1
<Figure 1>
2. After painting, create a hue/saturation adjustment layer and set the parameters as shown below.
<Picture 2> 3. Create a new layer, press Ctrl + Alt + Shift + E to stamp the layer, and use the stamp or smudge tool to smear out the traces on the face, the effect is as shown in Figure 3
<Figure 3>
4. Press Ctrl + J to make a copy of the painted layer, change the layer blending mode to "Screen", and change the layer opacity to: 60%, the effect is as shown in Figure 4
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<Figure 4>
5. Merge all layers, then modify and sharpen the overall effect to complete the final effect.
<Figure 5>
