Removing Glare from Eyeglasses?

[pthrift]

How can I go about removing glare from eyeglasses in photoshop? I shot a pic without flash but caught a lot of glare in the eyeglasses I guess from overhead lighting. I've looked and failed in my search....

 

[tirediron]

VERY carefully! I generally do it by selecting the glare area, dealing down the glare colour, boosting the clarity and cloning when as required.

 

[Light Guru]

Best thing to do is address it when shooting. Move the person, move the lit whatever it takes. A little trick I had a photographer ask me to do once is lift the glasses above the back of the ears 1/4-1/2 inch. This causes the glasses to tilt down just slightly and thus not catch as much glare.

 

[gsgary]

Learn how to use light so you don't get glare in the first place

 

[bratkinson]

Glare from eyeglasses is somewhat akin to 'red eye' when using flash. For red eye, the flash is too close to the centerline of the lens, so the flash gets 'reflected' by the subjects' retina.

Eyeglass reflections are similarly caused. The source of the reflected light is in the 'wrong' place relative to camera placement...say...directly behind you and a little above. The simple solution is to have the subject look at a slight angle to the camera, or, you and the camera move left or right a couple of steps. It's like following a pickup truck or some cars when the sun is low and behind you. The glare from their rear window hits you smack in the eyes. Moving left or right, or going up/down a hill removes the glare as you and/or the truck is at a different angle to the sun.

The biggest problem is recognizing that there will be glare from the subjects' glasses when taking the picture. As mentioned above, having someone with their glasses on tip them up a bit will handle the problem. Alternatively, a circular polarizing filter (CPL) should also correct the problem, but may introduce other effects that have to be dealt with, such as less light.

 

[pthrift]

thanks for the advice ya'll. I can only assume at this point then that removing it in photoshop is difficult and beyond my current skill set.

 

[Big Mike]

thanks for the advice ya'll. I can only assume at this point then that removing it in photoshop is difficult and beyond my current skill set.

It should be easy enough to make the bright spots darker, but that doesn't really fix the the problem.

When you want to remove something in a photo, the way to think about it, is that you have to replace it with something. So the usual method to removing something like this is to get in close and take pixels from right beside the spot, and copy them 'over top' of the spot you want to remove.

The usual tools for this in Photoshop are the Healing Brush/Patch tool, or the Clone tool/stamp.