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Originally Posted by R_Fredrick_Smith
In addition to the ideas about lighting of the subject, you can also rememdy any photos that are good, but have a few specular problems, by using one of several techniques in Photoshop. One method that I often use involves one of two approaches. If shooting RAW, I do two conversions, one for good overall skin tones and let the speculars blow out and a second where I convert to make the speculars as good as I can in the RAW converter, and let the rest of the photo go bad. Now I combine the two images in Photoshop by dragging the one with the good speculars over the over while holding down the Shift key (for perfect alignment. Now add a layer mask while holding down the ALT key which gives you a layer mask that is all black so you'll see the well exposed overall image. Now use a white brush to paint the specular areas. Start at 25% opacity for a soft brush and gradually build up the specular areas to where you want them.
I would have posted an example, but the ones that I had at hand were nudes, and I'm not sure we can post nudes in this forum anymore.
Note: for futher refinement you can play with the blending modes of the top layer.
Cheers,
rfs
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Guess I need to be snapped back to reality. Kristianna realized she needs to change her makeup for photoshoots.
After thinking about this problem ......and your post I realized post production is going to have to be the solution for this shoot. Next shoot we will have to fix problems as we shoot.
We didn't use camera raw in school, but we used multiple layers to fix problems.
What you are suggesting is not much different than usuing layers. I guess I knew what to do all along, but my brain has been stuck in react mode for the past 6 months. Time to wake up don't ya think?
Biog Tthanks!