Hi Tony,
Have you tried re-processing the RAW file with a much darker exposure and blending this onto the correctly exposed shot? It may pull back a little detail, if there is any there to be had.
HTH,
Tim.
On 16 Jul 2004, at 11:44, Anthony Harrison wrote:
Probably very basic for those who retouch skin constantly, but I'd like a tip. An otherwise acceptably toned raw file showing a waiter's bare arm reaching toward a table has the back of the hand horribly bleached from a stray sunbeam: detail is all but burned out. I'm working on it in 16-bit conversion using CS on a PC. Painting the hand darker looks naff & artificial; I've tried patching bits of adjacent hairy arm on to it, and using (for the first time) the clone stamp tool, but without success. How would others tackle this - re-shoot another hand and copy/clone, or what?
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