Retouching - saving a pet photo (crushed shadows or blown highlights)

[Stoic]

Hi All, I'm doing some retouching of old 'pet' photos. Frequently I'm finding say there's a black dog or a white cat, and parts of either the black fur is solid black, or the white fur is blown out completely white.

Can anyone either advise or point me to a source that shows a Photoshop technique how to add in some lost fur texture.

I'm sure it's easy when you know how 

Thanks!

[digitaldog]

The original you have is raw (or rendered data like a JPEG/TIFF)?

[Peano]

Hi All, I'm doing some retouching of old 'pet' photos. Frequently I'm finding say there's a black dog or a white cat, and parts of either the black fur is solid black, or the white fur is blown out completely white.

Can anyone either advise or point me to a source that shows a Photoshop technique how to add in some lost fur texture.

I'm sure it's easy when you know how 

Thanks!

Hard to tell without seeing the photos, but Generative Fill might work. Below is an example of what it can do. If you don't have raw files, that might be your only recourse.

[dgberg]

Hi All, I'm doing some retouching of old 'pet' photos. Frequently I'm finding say there's a black dog or a white cat, and parts of either the black fur is solid black, or the white fur is blown out completely white.

Can anyone either advise or point me to a source that shows a Photoshop technique how to add in some lost fur texture.

I'm sure it's easy when you know how 

Thanks!

In Lightroom it is real easy. Maybe 10 seconds for all.
Texture-Slide texture to the + side
Blocked shadows-Slide shadows to the + side
Blown out-Slide whites or highlights to the -

[Peano]

In Lightroom it is real easy. Maybe 10 seconds for all.
Texture-Slide texture to the + side Blocked shadows-Slide shadows to the + side
Blown out-Slide whites or highlights to the -

The OP (apparently no longer with us) said "parts of either the black fur is solid black, or the white fur is blown out completely white." If he's working with jpegs, those areas contain no image data, so there's nothing Lightroom could recover from them.

[digitaldog]

Exactly (and why I asked); LR can't magically fix data that doesn't exist (blown highlights/shadows).
GIGO: garbage in, garbage out.