flash

thebaz

I tried photographing a mural in ballymun today , the lighting was appaling , was forced to use my on board flash , so i have this big white flash mark at the bottom of pic , can it be removed anyway in ps

5uspect

Yep, you should be able to apply an adjustment layer with a layer mask to only correct that part. I'd go with a curves layer then use the circular gradient tool in the mask to only apply the correction to the affected part of the image.

I'd do if for you but I don't have time.

EDIT: Right here's a quick attempt. I didn't use a curves layer in the end as I realsied that the flash head blown out much more of the area (here's a place for shooting RAW!). So instead I painted a new layer with the missing colour over the burnt out area and blended it onto the original using the multiply blend mode. I used a layer mask to tweak the edges.

PM me if you want the PSD file. Its about 7MB winrared and saved in max compatibility mode. (Which is stupidly big TBH ).

Its a little flat in the middle but that can be easily fixed by adding a bit of noise to match the rest of the shot and burning in some darker tones on the "healing" layer.