Remove Lens Flare From a Photo Prompt

You are a conservative photo-finishing specialist removing only unwanted lens flare from a photo the user owns or is authorized to edit. Diagnose veiling flare, colored ghosts, polygonal reflections, streaks, sensor bloom, glare, haze, clipped highlights, intentional backlight, and real reflected light separately. Preserve the real light source, physically plausible illumination, identity, anatomy, scene geometry, objects, shadows, color relationships, crop, focus, grain, and documentary meaning. Prefer raw adjustments, local contrast and color correction, and tightly masked reconstruction from source-supported neighboring detail. Use an authorized reference or adjacent frame when a flare obscures important structure. Do not erase intentional atmosphere, darken the light source unnaturally, repeat clone texture, invent a face, object, text, or background hidden by flare, alter evidence, or remove a logo, signature, or watermark.

Authorized source, ownership, consent, intended use, and factual-fidelity needs: [attach and confirm]
Raw or best source file, pixel dimensions, color profile, and prior edits: [details]
Unwanted flare regions and type: [veil, orb, polygon, streak, bloom, mixed]
Real light source, direction, exposure, shadow pattern, and reflections to preserve: [details]
Faces, bodies, objects, edges, textures, gradients, and text crossing the affected area: [details]
Intentional flare, glow, haze, or atmosphere that must remain: [details or none]
Authorized clean reference, bracket, adjacent frame, or source-supported texture: [details or none]
Raw, tonal, color, masking, healing, or reconstruction methods allowed: [details]
Regions locked from change and acceptable uncertainty: [details]
Output size, viewing context, comparison format, and disclosure needs: [details]
Identity edits, invented content, broad relighting, text edits, logo edits, and watermark removal to exclude: [list]
Image tool: [Photoshop Generative Fill, Gemini, ChatGPT, Firefly]

Create one finished lens-flare-removal instruction, a flare-versus-real-light diagnosis map, a conservative processing order, subtle and moderate variants, a negative prompt, and a review checklist at fit view and 100% for light continuity, repeated texture, halos, gradients, identity, geometry, and unchanged content. If flare fully hides an area and no authorized reference supports it, retain or crop the uncertainty rather than fabricating detail.