Photography – Photo Correction

This is a picture of my Nephew, Ryan, from several years ago.  I never liked it, because his glasses caused spots of glare all over his face.  I decided to use this image as my portrait.  The process I used was slow but it worked pretty well.  I used the spot healing brush a lot along with the clone stamp, all around the eyes.  Once I removed the spots his eyes looked strange and I needed to do some copying.  I used the lasso tool and selected around in different places on the lids and eyeglass frames.  I copied the eyes from one eye and pasted them on another layer.  Then I flipped them horizontally so they would fit correctly.  I then used the free transform and puppet warp to place the eyes correctly.  Once the eyes were fixed I noticed his cheeks were a bit red, so I created a hue & saturation layer and turned it black.  I then used the brush tool on his cheeks with 25% opacity until they looked good to me.

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