Fixing a Photograph

[jpmk214]

Hello!
I know this is not media ministry, but I need suggestions on fixing a photograph. I did photography during the final dress rehearsal for our local high school's Fall Musical production (my son was part of the production). I've been going through the photos to sort out the good ones and make minor corrections as needed to get them ready to share.

The problem I have is with about 20 photos from a scene from the musical Wicked and one of the characters was green. Whoever did the makeup that night left her with ALOT of shine - which is reflected in the photos. I did use a flash on most shots because of the dim green lighting during the scene. I've been playing with making adjustments in photoshop and can not find what will fix the shine while leaving her looking natural.

I have attached one photo as an example to see if anyone can suggest what tool/tools I should try to use in photoshop to remove some of the shine as I am probably overlooking the obvious. (For the actual performances - we had them dust her with translucent powder and the problem went away, but I could not do photography during the actual performances due to the stage layout.)

Thanks for any suggestions!
Phylis

[Unicyclist]

Here is a quick try. I used the spot healing brush and the patch tool.

[kbob]

that doesn't look bad at all...lots of work ahead though if you go that route.

[NdEd]

I'd also play with the smudge tool at a lower strength setting.

[rbcyouthdude]

I use the color picker and pick the color you want to keep, create new layer and use the brush with a low opacity say %15 and brush over it carefully on the new layer.

michael

[Dean]

I would go with the Healing Brush tool, but after each usage of that tool go to edit>Fade Healing Brush (shift-ctrl-F)and adjust to the desired blending. This is also a great way to remove wrinkles, etc. from faces.

[theagro]

I took and selected a green that matched closest to the green around the glow and then created a new layer with the opacity set to around 85 - 90 %. This will still give her face some depth of field without making her look too cartoonish.

[arctic954]

I realize this thread is how to fix the images......

I started using a large flash bracket....from Stroboframe --- called the PRO-TL. The putting a small softbox/reflector on the flash. Getting the flash higher above gets rid of 90% of these types of gremlins.