how do you reduce glare on water photo

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Jerry Hunt Jr
Jul 10, 2003
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using elements how do i reduce or remove glare or light reflecting off of a water photo? next time i will use a filter on my digital camera to help with this.

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Phosphor
Jul 10, 2003
If the glare is so severe that there is no information – the white is completely burnt out – then apart from cloning from less overexposed parts of the image there isn’t much you can do. I have added a polarising filter to my G3 which helps a bit. But with digital cameras it can be hard to fit in the full range of contrast in a sunlit scene. Particularly under Australian lighting conditions! It’s best to underexpose so that some detail is left in the highlights and then use Elements to bring up the shadow detail.

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Nancy S
Jul 10, 2003
Jerry,

You might try; pulling up a Levels Adjustment Layer and move the bottom scale inwards (the Output) on the right hand side. Moving the white point to a lesser value will redefine your brightest pixels to ‘less bright’. Since your histogram will extend all the way to the right edge of graph, this is a method for compensating that maxed out situation which sometimes yields decent results, it depends on the image though.

Edit: Depending on the image, you could also try selecting that overly bright area with the lasso tool (with a feather) and applying the above. Best done with a mask to ensure ease of change.

Nancy

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