Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

REMOVE THE GLARE from eyeglasses
Portraits of people with eyeglasses can be particularly
challenging. Even the so called nonglare lenses can
cause reflections, glare, and ghosting across the
lenses in a photo. Professional photographers try
to avoid the glare by repositioning the lights or
even angling the eyeglasses slightly by tipping
up the earpieces, so the plane of the lens is not
pointing directly at the camera and lights. They
might also photograph the subject both with and
without glasses at every head position, so they
can correct the glare in Photoshop by copying
pieces of the eyes without glasses onto the image
with the glasses.
If you have only the one photograph, you can use this
cloning technique along with a bit of digital dodging
and burning to remove the glare. You should work on
a duplicated Background layer and zoom in as far as
needed, even more than 100% if necessary to sample
areas with a small brush from the sides of the glare.
By working on small areas on a separate layer you
can slowly build up the photo to conceal the glare and
then dodge and burn to blend the pixels.
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1 Click and drag the Background layer
over the New Layer button.
2 Click the New Layer button to add a
new layer.
3 Click the Clone Stamp tool.
4 Select a very small soft-edged brush.
5 Set the Mode to Normal and the
Flow to 100%.
6 Set the opacity to 80%.
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7 Click Aligned ( changes to ).
8 Select Sample All Layers.
9 Click the Clone Source panel toggle
to open the panel.
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0 Click Show Overlay ( changes
to ).
! Press Ô+spacebar (Ctrl+spacebar)
and click and drag over one side of
the glasses to zoom in.
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@ Option+click (Alt+click) on one side
of the glare to set a clone source.
# Click and drag a tiny section over
the glare.
$ Repeat step 12 and 13 multiple
times, working in from each side of
the glare.
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