White Halo In Old Photo

I have an older b&w photo of a girl in a white dress, but she has a white
halo from her neck up and around the outside of her head that I'd like to
eliminate. Does anyone have any ideas on how to reduce or eliminate this
white halo? If you need me to post the photo, I'd be grateful if you would
let me know how I can do that. Thanks.

Pedro

Re: White Halo In Old Photo

Why so complicated? You do not have to select only the halo, it's enough
to select everything but the figure. So select the figure, invert the
selection and start cloning.
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Nomail@please.invalid (Johan W. Elzenga)

Re: White Halo In Old Photo

If the halo is the same size all around, select to the outside of the halo
and save the selection. Then shrink the selection to the area of the figure
(SELECT>MODIFY>CONTRACT) so the selected area is at the outline of the
figure. You may have to experiment with how many pixels to contract the
selection. When you have it to your satisfaction, save the selection into
the same name you used for saving the original selection, but SUBTRACTING it
from the original selection. Then load that selection into your picture.
You can then use the clone stamp to darken the halo with information from
outside the halo without affecting the figure. To get a smooth job you may
have to experiment with feathering the final selection.


John Forest

Re: White Halo In Old Photo

umm ... I mean BURN tool !


Randy

Re: White Halo In Old Photo

Figures, found it after I posted. The freehand dodge tool works pretty
good to darken areas like this. Anyone know of any better technique?


Randy

Re: White Halo In Old Photo

I have basically the same problem. I have a picture where I am wearing
a white shirt. It was a blasting sunny day. The shirt is completely
over-exposed and "halos" into the background before. I am standing in
front of John Lennon's house, so I would really love to fix it up. I
can post the picture if need be. Quite a few pictures turned out like
that so I hope someone has some ideas for minimizing the effect.
Randy


Randy

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