flare removal

thebaz

What is the easiest way to remove sunshine flare using Photoshop cs ?
or can it be removed , can't see anything obvious !

Thanks.

Fenster

There's a couple of way, can you show us the photo in question?

thebaz

I like taking shots with a shining sun, and flare is a persistent problem , sometimes its fine and blends in but i'd like to know how to rid it when required .

Anyway i've uploaded one as an example, you can see flare to the right of the shot -- when shooting into sun i use a lens hood , but flare still persists.
Thanks.

Fenster

A lens hood won't do squat when you're shooting directly into the light source - it's only effective at an angle. That jagged white blob is a point that your camera simply couldn't handle and there's not much I can do about it.

thebaz

is it by cloning you would usually try and patch up the flare ?

the flare i'm talking bout on this image is green not white !

Fenster

http://www.bhalash.com/files/pics/DSC_1670.JPG

There's too much of a gradient around it for a fast fix without a whole lot of effort, so I turn this photo over to others. I did straighten it, remove the other flare, crop it and fixed the whole white blob thing.

Some cloning, some painting, a lot of lassoing and copying areas whole.

thebaz

Thanks anyway -- i guess i'll experiment a bit with the clone stamp , to fix other flare i have in other photos -- i'm newish to photoshop !