How to Reduce Glare in Photoshop
All too often, when you take a photograph of a window or a person wearing glasses, you find that when you load the image onto your computer that some part of the glass has an obvious reflective glare. You have two options: you can reshoot the photo (more time and money) or you can try to fix the photo you have. Fortunately, you can reduce glare using Adobe Photoshop's various tools.
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Instructions
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Open Photoshop. Select "File," click "Open," then browse to the image you want to repair and click on it.
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Look closely at the image and you will see that the glare points in one direction. This means that in a photo of a pair of glasses, if the right lens is glaring on the right side, the left one is glaring on the right as well. If the right side of a plane of glass is glared, the left one isn't.
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Use the "Lasso" selection tool to select an area on the left side that corresponds to the area on the right that is glared.
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Select "Edit," and then click "Copy" and "Paste." A copy of that section has now been pasted into a new layer. Select "Edit," then "Transform" and click "Flip Horizontal." Move the section over to the glared area on the right. It won't quite line up.
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Select "Edit," then "Transform," and click "Rotate." Rotate the image until it lines up a bit better. Then under "Transform," select "Distort" and move the points if you need to improve the alignment. Go to "Layers" and click "Merge Down."
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Select the "Clone Stamp." Hold down the "ALT" key, and click on a section near the repaired area (that wasn't changed) to get a source point. Run this tool along any seam that might still exist between the original image and the repair. You may have to reselect your source point as you work. If you are doing this for glasses, when you are finished, use the same technique to fix the other lens.
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