How do you get rid of glass glare?

[brewdog]

I have a few of these I need to get rid of the glare. I have burned some but did not like the results. What do you do?

[Allen]

What is the glare coming from? I can see it, but can't tell what it is exactly. It almost looks like an overhead light.

[Nevyn]

It's a reflection.
Looks like the ceiling.

[satyr]

BB gun...

[Abel]

hmm.... im not sure of the best way to fix it in post processing... maybe some of the other wedding photogs might have some tips or tricks..

[brad]

Don't know how to do it in post.. maybe cloning, but its such a large area, that probably won't work...

During shooting, a polarizer might have helped....

Originally Posted by satyr

BB gun...

That, too.

[evil4blue]

Converted it to Lab color, used the lasso tool to select the areas that I wanted to clone out, cloned out the areas in the lightness channel, then adjusted the colors of the foliage in the A and B channels (in the same selected areas) with curves, converted back to RGB, and saved. Total time 2 minutes. If you take your time you can probably do it better, but at least you CAN do it. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

OBTW, was that a Lamborghini causing the glare...maybe a Nissan 300Z?

[Steelsun]

Nice, this is a great place to learn some new way to fix things every day.

[swanny338]

nice job on the fix, and thanks for steps :-)

[Ben]

Christ, I have no idea what the heck you did, but I'm going to try it later on in the month once Finals are over with. :(

[brewdog]

Thanks I will give it a try later today. MPIX had a fix for glare for a price, so I knew it could be done.
Thank You

[Roy]

It takes me two minutes to do a crop, resize and save as......... LOL!
Nice work Evil!

[ndsimm]

I'm glad this was here because I was having the same problem on an image.....any ideas on how to fix this one???

[evil4blue]

Originally Posted by ndsimm

I'm glad this was here because I was having the same problem on an image.....any ideas on how to fix this one???

Wow, this one isn't for the faint of heart. Ndsimm, your photo is a lot harder to work with because of the detail in the framed drawings. The wedding photo was easy because cloning greenery doesn't need to be percise to look realistic. Unfortunately, aside from a lot of cloning, I don't know of a quick short cut. You may think about cloning the frame out entirely, or going back to the office and reshooting the frame with a polarizer and then cut and pasting it into the original. Either suggestion would be the easier fix then trying to clone out the glare.

I would use the clone stamp and go slow. The only problem with the clone stamp is at some point you have to makeup the detail in the indian in the top left window. If I can come up with a quick fix, I'll post it.

[ndsimm]

don't you just love a challenge?
I'll probably end up cloning out the picture completely and I'll post either way
I tried copying the same image from another shot tell me what you think