Glare from Glasses?

[BrandonH]

I'm new to post processing and am having trouble figuring something out. I have both Elements and Lightroom, but can't figure out how to remove the glare from a pair of glasses. I would appreciate any help.

Thanks,

Brandon

[kb5kjn]

Not to be rude, but not capturing the glare in the first place is the solution.
Have the person that is wearing the glasses drop them down a bit on the nose. That generally changes the angle enough to stop the glare.

[Frazzled LaShawn]

I have yet to find a way to do this in PP...at least to remove it well. I agree that not capturing the glare is the solution. I am working on paying attention to those details when shooting.

[Mindy H]

I pay Miller's five bucks to do it......WELL worth the time saved. Toddlers with glasses don't usually cooperate well enough to keep strobe reflections out completely for me.

[QRasco]

In elements I'd try the clone stamp to start with. Zoom in tight and take your time.

[Fireball]

I've also read where you can have the person tilt the ear pieces of their glasses up a bit behind their ears and that helps remove it.

I spent hours with the cloning tool, etc. on a couple who renewed their 20th wedding vows and both of them wore glasses and when I took them outside, the man's glasses turned into sunglasses! Ugh! And he didn't want to remove them (wouldn't look like him) and what little shade there was around the church wasn't enough to make the tint go back to normal glasses. Needless to say, it was a nightmare trying to fix that!

[ChuckW]

As already stated the best solution is to have the subject tilt their head and/or glasses to minimize the reflections. Or, use a polarizing filter. Having said that I managed to rescue a shot one time (where I didn't follow my own advise!) with reflections that almost totally obscured one eye. What I did was clone the unobscured eye flip it 180 degrees and use that replace the obscured eye.

[bondarnes]

If you know that you may have a problem take a couple of shots without glasses for each different setup. Then in PhotoShop you can select the eyes from the no glasses shot, move those on to the glass glare shot, free transform to line them up, and blend until it looks normal. I can usually do this in five minutes or less.

[Cajungaltx]

this is the best suggestion that I've known to do - one other that I've read is to have the client pick up a pair of 'frames only' from they eye doctor. Sometimes they will loan them out and just use those for photos.

No glare to erase.

Or - make all your clients get anti-reflective coating on their glasses. One of my latest sessions had a guy with glasses... and NO reflection...it was phenominal.

Originally Posted by bondarnes

If you know that you may have a problem take a couple of shots without glasses for each different setup. Then in PhotoShop you can select the eyes from the no glasses shot, move those on to the glass glare shot, free transform to line them up, and blend until it looks normal. I can usually do this in five minutes or less.