Removing a shadow

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If you shot in raw can you make a few different exposures and blend them using layers in Photoshop?
 
You can improve it but it would be a lot of work to fix it completely. This was a quick 10 minutes.

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ziggy©;2545371 said:
I wish i shot it in RAW :)
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RAW editor will let you open jpeg files too and edit them in a similar way!
 
Here is my ten minute go at it. i thought it may look less obvious that it is a shadow if the foreground was evened out a bit and I removed some of the brighter spots too.

Think it looks a bit better and could be made much better, just take your time and explore the tools that potoshop has available... :thumbs:

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sleepo said:
Buy Photoshop CS5 and try content-aware fill :-)
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But the OP said "using CS3" not even CS4. I am looking forwards to having a play with photoshop CS5 though....
 
Thanks guys for your efforts. I think it is probably impossible to edit it without it looking processed. Maybe i should go back to the site and this time watch out for the shadows.. :)
 
Certainly worth a re-shoot if it's easy. The way I would do this in CS4 would be a new layer, set to soft light blend mode, filled with 50% grey. Then mask the shadow area, and fill that with lighter greys until the brightening effect takes out enough of the shadow. I would also agree with abooth that it will look less obvious if you even out the foreground, so in this method you could paint with darker greys on the new layer where you want it darker.

Main problem is that as you lighten the shadows you are going to enhance any noise.
 
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