| Mark,
Good suggestions.
One thing I do that I've found to be very helpful when using the healing brush is to use the paint brush first to knock the color down then heal it...this way the healing brush doesn't pick up so much of the color of the shadow, but rather the actual skin tone.
In your case, without seeing the photo, of course, I'd sample a skin tone from the face of the subject near the shadow, color over the shadow with 80-90% opacity then heal that. Careful of your hairlines as getting too close to dark edges will muck up the skin.
Hope this is of some help to you.
Lea
Two things First the shadow. I think CS2 has the healing brush or tool. You can select another spot on their face and click over the shadow area on the face and the software will blend everything together using the lighting ect to come up with what it thinks you need. It usually works well and likely would get rid of minor shadows. Another option is the clone tool which picks an exact color which you select and puts that color where you click. You can select an area just outside of the shadowed area you want to cover and whala, the shadow is covered. Healing brush blends, the clone tool doesn't. That's the easy part.
Now you might get lucky, but I never do with the auto color in photoshop. It can be done, but it will take some time an patience to get it close. You can add different amounts of red green and blue to see what gets the color back as close as you can. One thing you might be able to do is to look for a specific plug in for photoshop that does this. I am not sure which one might work well and now that some time has passed CS2 might be an issue. Plug ins often do much of what you can do anyway in the program, but they make life a lot easier to do it.
One more thing. You are using CS2, but be advised that if you do not upgrade to the newer version now at CS5, after the next upgrade comes out you will be rebuying the full version at mega dollars again. Used to be that once you bought the full version, you could upgrade to the current version no matter how old it was but that changed.
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Subject: Edit software for pics
From: Redsponger < redsponger@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, October 10, 2011 8:25 am
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
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Dear Group: I am having great difficulty in editing a photo a friend gave to me to try and improve. It is a faded color picture of her parents on their wedding day in Jamaica. What I found when I zoomed in on the image is that they both have a shadow on their foreheads from a tree branch. Any ideas? I do have Photoshop 6 and CS2 - but so far no luck Thanks so much. Barbara
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