1. A method performed by a process executing on a computer system, the method comprising: identifying an object of interest in a digital image; projecting at least a portion of the digital image corresponding to the object of interest onto a three dimensional (3D) model, the projected portion having a color map; determining one or more properties of a light source that illuminated the object of interest in the digital image at a time that the digital image was captured; and correcting the digital image for illumination artifacts based, at least in part, upon the one or more determined properties of the light source that illuminated the object of interest in the digital image.