How to remove red flare?

"Biscuits" <[/email]> wrote in message
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Hi,
How to remove these red flare and looks naturally?

Thank you very much!

Switch to LAB mode and note that the damage is all in the A channel. With the other channels switched off, blend out the flare using the Burn tool on 'Midtones' range with fairly low Exposure. Needs a bit of trial and error but it works.
HTH
R.

"Ragnar" wrote in message

"Biscuits" wrote in message

Hi,
How to remove these red flare and looks naturally?

Thank you very much!

Switch to LAB mode and note that the damage is all in the A channel. With the other channels switched off, blend out the flare using the Burn tool on 'Midtones' range with fairly low Exposure. Needs a bit of trial and error but it works.
HTH
R.

Thanks Ragnar!
It seems that the red flare is more serious by burn tool. Maybe I did some steps wrong, right?

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"Biscuits" wrote in message

"Ragnar" wrote in message

"Biscuits" wrote in message

Hi,
How to remove these red flare and looks naturally?

Thank you very much!

Switch to LAB mode and note that the damage is all in the A channel. With the other channels switched off, blend out the flare using the Burn tool on 'Midtones' range with fairly low Exposure. Needs a bit of trial and error but it works.
HTH
R.

Thanks Ragnar!
It seems that the red flare is more serious by burn tool. Maybe I did some steps wrong, right?

Worked all right when I tried it. Are you sure you're using the Burn tool and not the Dodge tool? they're both on the same button (at least they are on CS8). And don't forget to switch back to RGB mode afterwards. Here's my quick effort (you will be more careful than I was) https://picasaweb.google.com/113281819203935297926/24Novembe r201203#5814296559841377810
R.

"Biscuits" wrote in message

"Ragnar" wrote in message

"Biscuits" wrote in message

"Ragnar" wrote in message

"Biscuits" wrote in message

Hi,
How to remove these red flare and looks naturally?

Thank you very much!

Switch to LAB mode and note that the damage is all in the A channel. With
the other channels switched off, blend out the flare using the Burn tool
on 'Midtones' range with fairly low Exposure. Needs a bit of trial and error but it works.
HTH
R.

Thanks Ragnar!
It seems that the red flare is more serious by burn tool. Maybe I did some steps wrong, right?

Worked all right when I tried it. Are you sure you're using the Burn tool and not the Dodge tool? they're both on the same button (at least they are
on CS8). And don't forget to switch back to RGB mode afterwards. Here's my quick effort (you will be more careful than I was) https://picasaweb.google.com/113281819203935297926/24Novembe r201203#5814296559841377810
R.

You are nice, thanks a lot!
Please read the 2 attached images and the "History". The red flare became deeper.
What's wrong with that?

Although you had only the A channel visible, you still had the other channels selected so the Burn tool was acting on all of them. ONLY the A channel should be selected. Click on the channel name, not the eye icon.
Hope this sorts it out.
R.

"Ragnar" wrote in message

"Biscuits" wrote in message

"Ragnar" wrote in message

"Biscuits" wrote in message

"Ragnar" wrote in message

"Biscuits" wrote in message

Hi,
How to remove these red flare and looks naturally?

Thank you very much!

Switch to LAB mode and note that the damage is all in the A channel. With
the other channels switched off, blend out the flare using the Burn tool
on 'Midtones' range with fairly low Exposure. Needs a bit of trial and
error but it works.
HTH
R.

Thanks Ragnar!
It seems that the red flare is more serious by burn tool. Maybe I did some steps wrong, right?

Worked all right when I tried it. Are you sure you're using the Burn tool
and not the Dodge tool? they're both on the same button (at least they are
on CS8). And don't forget to switch back to RGB mode afterwards. Here's my quick effort (you will be more careful than I was) https://picasaweb.google.com/113281819203935297926/24Novembe r201203#5814296559841377810
R.

You are nice, thanks a lot!
Please read the 2 attached images and the "History". The red flare became deeper.
What's wrong with that?

Although you had only the A channel visible, you still had the other channels selected so the Burn tool was acting on all of them. ONLY the A channel should be selected. Click on the channel name, not the eye icon.
Hope this sorts it out.
R.

Thank you very much! ^_^

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On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 23:02:41 -0000, "Ragnar" wrote:

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"Ragnar" wrote in message

"Biscuits" wrote in message

"Ragnar" wrote in message

"Biscuits" wrote in message

Hi,
How to remove these red flare and looks naturally?

Thank you very much!

Switch to LAB mode and note that the damage is all in the A channel. With
the other channels switched off, blend out the flare using the Burn tool
on 'Midtones' range with fairly low Exposure. Needs a bit of trial and error but it works.
HTH
R.

Thanks Ragnar!
It seems that the red flare is more serious by burn tool. Maybe I did some steps wrong, right?

Worked all right when I tried it. Are you sure you're using the Burn tool and not the Dodge tool? they're both on the same button (at least they are
on CS8). And don't forget to switch back to RGB mode afterwards. Here's my quick effort (you will be more careful than I was) https://picasaweb.google.com/113281819203935297926/24Novembe r201203#5814296559841377810
R.

You are nice, thanks a lot!
Please read the 2 attached images and the "History". The red flare became deeper.
What's wrong with that?

Although you had only the A channel visible, you still had the other channels selected so the Burn tool was acting on all of them. ONLY the A channel should be selected. Click on the channel name, not the eye icon.
Hope this sorts it out.
R.

I have learned a few new things about removing stray colors from your posts. Using the Burn tool on the A channel is new to me and much appreciated.
What other hot secrets do you have? I have used PS for years but never caught this trick.

Is this a primary way to remove these kinds of imperfections? ns

"no spam" wrote in message

I have learned a few new things about removing stray colors from your posts. Using the Burn tool on the A channel is new to me and much appreciated.
What other hot secrets do you have? I have used PS for years but never caught this trick.

Is this a primary way to remove these kinds of imperfections? ns

No I don't think there's a primary way. You sometimes have to dabble around with alternative tricks and see what happens. I did not look at the image and think "Whoops! Big problem in the A channel!". What I did was look at all the RGB channels, then switch to CMYK and look at all those channels, then finally into LAB. None of the other channels showed an obvious 'fix', but since the L and B channels looked fine and the A channel was damaged, it automatically suggested the remedy.

The danger with RGB and CMYK is that it can sometimes be difficult to correct a blemish which occurs across all channels.

In LAB lots of exciting possibilities occur. For an example look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhfRynutmQM where the great Dan Margulis shows an astonishing trick of changing a red car into green in a couple of seconds. Everything I know about Photoshop is thanks to Dan who has written several books on different aspects of Photoshop.

R.

On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:01:25 -0000, "Ragnar" wrote:

"no spam" wrote in message

I have learned a few new things about removing stray colors from your posts. Using the Burn tool on the A channel is new to me and much appreciated.
What other hot secrets do you have? I have used PS for years but never caught this trick.

Is this a primary way to remove these kinds of imperfections? ns

No I don't think there's a primary way. You sometimes have to dabble around with alternative tricks and see what happens. I did not look at the image and think "Whoops! Big problem in the A channel!". What I did was look at all the RGB channels, then switch to CMYK and look at all those channels, then finally into LAB. None of the other channels showed an obvious 'fix', but since the L and B channels looked fine and the A channel was damaged, it automatically suggested the remedy.

The danger with RGB and CMYK is that it can sometimes be difficult to correct a blemish which occurs across all channels.

In LAB lots of exciting possibilities occur. For an example look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhfRynutmQM where the great Dan Margulis shows an astonishing trick of changing a red car into green in a couple of seconds. Everything I know about Photoshop is thanks to Dan who has written several books on different aspects of Photoshop.

R.

Thanks - good info. Good honest comments also. I will do more Googling in this area. Until now I have either had good originals or gotten by with the more traditional methods. This is worth looking at.

no spam wrote:

I have learned a few new things about removing stray colors from your posts. Using the Burn tool on the A channel is new to me and much appreciated.
What other hot secrets do you have? I have used PS for years but never caught this trick.

Is this a primary way to remove these kinds of imperfections? ns

Burn Tool can be a pretty useful tool, but may not work well with all situation especially with the photo posted here.

Me? I probably using Layer Mask option to replace it with different parts of the photo. May be with the combination of Clone Tool but not Burn Tool (but I never try to know for sure how well the Burn Tool works with this photo).