How to darken / heal bright spots while retaining texture

[tommik128]

Well, I must say this is quite complex task for me. But I managed to sort of heal the bright areas by using 2 approaches: Clone Tool in Darken Only mode with some Opacity down + Fuzzy Select Tool and playing with Colors - Curves. Definitely trial and error thing for me...

The brush method did not work for me since it was rather repainting the whole texture. Also the filters seem to redraw the texture + I do not have the Pixel Denoise among GMic anyway for some reason.

Thanks.