How to remove glare from glasses in Photoshop
Jun 4, 2020
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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The best way to avoid glare in glasses is to simply position your lights and your subject in such a way that they don’t reflect off the surface of the lenses in the glasses they are wearing. In the studio, this is relatively easy to achieve. Out on location, where you have no control over the ambient light and sometimes your subject, we might have to resort to cleaning it up in post.
In this video, Unmesh at PiXimperfect shows us a method we can use to restore detail hidden behind glare and reflections in glasses in Photoshop. He does stress that you do need to have some detail there to begin with that you want to try to bring out.
If the glare is too overpowering and you have absolutely no detail there at all, then this video won’t help you much. You’ll have to try alternate methods at the time of shooting which Unmesh mentions in the video. But if the glare isn’t incredibly strong, and you can still see some detail behind the reflections then this should help you to eliminate it somewhat. You’ll still want to keep some there, just to help with the realism, but you can massively reduce it.
Again, ideally, you want to position your subject relative to the light sources that you don’t get glare in glasses, to begin with, but if you have no choice, then this is a good (if not particularly quick) technique to help you solve the problem.
How do you deal with glare from glasses in environments you can’t control?
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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14 responses to “How to remove glare from glasses in Photoshop”
Or be like Korean TV Dramas and make people wear frames with no glasses!!!
Take two photos with glasses on and off. Photoshop frames back on.
It’s something you can’t do during let’s say a wedding.
Patrick Mayon you can if you pose up a few photos in similar light after. Would make life much easier than photoshopping glare out of every photo.
Use Polfilter
pola filster…
Here’s a Novel Idea
How about YOU learn how to be a photographer and use a proper filter so you won’t need PHOTSHOP???
Richie Vela ???
You made my day. You are the one, who interrupts parts of the wedding ceremony, because you want to readjust the flash. ?
Benjamin Stolle going by the comment, I’m pretty sure he’s not making money with photography…
Benjamin Stolle typical you are wedding Martha Stewart boy…ONLY someone whom LACKS the PROPER KNOWLEDGE/EDUCATION/EQUIPMENT TO BE PREPARED for ANY job a REAL PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER takes on…WOULD MAKE that asinine statement or a fool that would even consider INTERRUPTING any EVENT…
Ya DON’T INTERRUPT anything…if your not prepared your out of luck and YOU buddy cannot live up to what you promised your clients in the first place
INTERRUPT what a loser…
But then YOU probably only have ONE CAMERA!!!
Which is the case because only a one camera-boy would ever suggest interruption…haha haha
Richie Vela the concept of sarcasm is a hard one… well done Benjamin – i loled ?
Um, have them tilt their head down slightly before you take the shot?
Or you could just use a polariser. It’s what they were designed for.
nice