My church wants a pic for its directory. Sometimes I look good, I doubt I would tomorrow.
Pastor said theres a lot of glare, especially in background.
How would I fix this?
This is a photo on my phone.
Trying to make your subject line match your content, do you have a photo that is so overexposed the colors are washed out? Because otherwise you seem to be asking two different things.
Either way, this is a situation where if you don’t know the answer, then the answer is “pay/ask someone with skills in this area to fix it”. And the worse the problems, the more skills needed to fix it.
But the really real solution to a bad new photo is to take a better newer photo.
Its a selfie, but theres light coming from the window. I know there are young people who know how to tweak pics to remove that.
And the answer is, ask one of them to do it. Nobody is going to be able to teach you a skillset learned by extensive work at it in a text reply on a message board. Making bad photos look good isn’t one button that you press in an app.
You can try some of the AI services too. It might not give you the best quality output, but worth a shot if you don’t wanna pay a human to do it.
But Darren’s right, better to just get a photographer to take another photo for you. Or take another selfie where there isn’t so much glare.
PhotoLemur can do a remarkable job but silk purse and sow’s ear applies. Taking any photo backlit by sun in a window is tough. Photos taken at golden hour around 4-6pm always look good.
After struggling with selfie attempts, I had to ask a coworker to take some pics for my passport photo. The selfies were ok but not the same as a portrait.
Even if you give that photo to a photoshop expert it’s easier to work with an underexposed photo than an overexposed one. If it’s too blown out, there’s nothing to pull back.
Yeah, if you just want a decent head shot of yourself, it’s almost always going to be easier to take another photo than to clean up one that was badly exposed. Get a friend to take photos of you. I find a really good method is to chat with a friend about something you both like while the friend snaps shot after shot. Then pick one that looks good and discard all the others. The “chatting about a pleasant topic” is a good way to get a photo that looks natural, not posed, and where you look relaxed and happy. If a formal posed photo is what you need, that’s even easier. Just find a place with decent lighting and a neutral background, and have a friend snap 3-5 to pick from.
Yes. Take another photograph in better conditions (ie no backlighting). This is advice coming from one of our resident photographers. Apps and filters can’t fix everything (maybe a skilled Photoshop artist can), and it’s a waste of time trying to fix from a bad starting point when a much easier solution exists.