Mom, I wanna horse :)

[coopmj]

Hi Everyone,

Please put your eagle eyes to work and let me know what still needs correcting.  Thanks!!

Mary

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[Jo Ann Snover]

I think you've done a grand job on the damage and my suggestion is about trying to recover some of the nearly-blown highlights, something like this:



I added two Curves Adjustment layers. The first was set to multiply blend mode with a black mask. I then painted in lighter & darker shades of gray on the very bright areas and blurred the mask to soften edges more. The other curves adjustment layer was to add a little contrast overall (an S curve).

See what you think. You can tell you've darkened too much when you get a flat gray instead of the colors jumping back. You can Shift Click on the black mask of the multiply blend mode layer to see what's possible - the truly blown areas will stay blown even with everything around them darkening.

[coopmj]

Awesome--thank you Jo Ann!  I'll see what I can do (and I'm going to start a folder with all your suggestions)! :up:

Mary

[Lynnya]

With Jo Ann's tips it'll blow it away Mary.. great job :up:

[Shadow]

Really nice cleanup Mary. Yep. Jo Ann's tips will put it over the top.