Is it possible to rescue a blown picture?

[mcflurry]

When taking pictures indoors, as there is no bracketing on my phone camera, I was wondering if it's possible to remove the "fog" effect you sometimes get near windows? I have PSP X2 and PSE9 on the pc, and PS CS3 on the mac.

An example picture is below



Thanks in advance

[RobDickinson]

You can fix some of that with processing, real blown data is unrecoverable ( max in each colour channel) the over exposed/hazy stuff can be recovered a fair bit with some carefull photoshopery

[d1d215]

here you go ! . 1minute photoshop.

Edited by d1d215 on Monday 29th March 20:51

[d1d215]

maybe try to use your hand as a "lens hood" to cover direct powerful light.

[GetCarter]

I'm afraid what's blown is blown. As for 'fog' - well it's just damage limitation.

[mcflurry]

d1d215 said:

maybe try to use your hand as a "lens hood" to cover direct powerful light.

Good thinking

d1d215 said:

here you go ! . 1minute photoshop.

Thank you - I guess the question should be, which filters / actions / sliders are best to use, so that I can try and fix up a batch of them? Without wishing to appear ungrateful, the example image was to show my problem, if that makes sense?

Muchus gracias in advance

[d1d215]

well - this doesn't look like one-in-a-lifetime shoot. so just take a normal camera and shoot again . as Carter said - you can't actually make something from nothing.

[GFWilliams]

mcflurry said:

I guess the question should be, which filters / actions / sliders are best to use, so that I can try and fix up a batch of them? Without wishing to appear ungrateful, the example image was to show my problem, if that makes sense?

Muchus gracias in advance

Image>Adjustments>Shadows/Highlights

If it is possible to recover it, you will see detail appear where the highlights were when you increase the Highlights %.

HTH