Softening hard branch shadows
- Retain the eye socket shape.
- Soften the hard shadow edge.
- Lift the shadow interior gently.
- Keep the face shape.
- Maintain the outdoor light.
- Blend the shadow transition.
- Keep skin texture visible.
- Preserve the nose shadow.
Fictional travel-print example: the trip is over and she wants to keep this expression and the Bristol park setting for a family print. Only the cast branch-shadow bands on the forehead and viewer-left cheek are reduced. In the after photo the branch-shadow stripes are gone from her face; the normal eye-socket and nose shading, her expression, hair and earrings stay. The face is redrawn in the edit, so it is close to the original but not pixel-identical. No hidden identity detail is invented, and the park, clothes and light direction remain unchanged.