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KenB Senior Member Registered: July 2002 Location: Michigan Posts: 186 users gallery	Let me apologise right up front, I thought this one was going to be a cakewalk...it wasn't and I didn't keep very good track of the steps I took. There was an awful lot of experimenting done on my part. First thing I did was look at the individual channels and took note that the red and blue channels showed a lot of damage. I converted to CMYK and looked at those individual channels also, but there seemed to be no advantage so I converted it back to RGB. I duped the image and converted to to lab mode. From this I replaced both the blue and red channels with the lightness channel from the lab version. I played with curves tryign to get back some decent coloring. I got it close and then used nik pen palette and did some hand tinting. I selected the little boys jacket and incresed the saturation a bit. The lines running the inside edges I eliminated with the healing tool and I used that on spots that still showed up in places also some cloning. At one point I did run it through neat image also, but not enough to remove all the texture, personally I liked the look of the texture. Resized and saved. This ones going to haunt me because I'm still not real happy with the colors. Ken
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svsg

Member

Registered: June 2003
Location: 13.1358* N, 77.6058* E
Posts: 57

6/22/2003 2:04am

great job! You have removed a lot of noise from this picture.

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lesbones

Junior Member

Registered: January 2003
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 3

6/22/2003 4:02am

Wow! You did a nice job with the color.Very vivid and sharp just like it was printed yesterday. I am impress with how clean it is too. Great job!

pjb

Member

Registered: August 2002
Location: Casselberry, Florida
Posts: 74

6/22/2003 2:19pm

Yes very good job. Clear and very little noise

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I try to take one day at a time but sometimes several days attack me at once.

Matt Roberts

Junior Member

Registered: December 2002
Location: Australia

6/23/2003 12:26am

Great, Such strong colors and sharpness. And the rich skin tones.
This retouch jumps out at you,
I like it a lot.

col
Junior Member

Registered: June 2002
Posts: 10

6/23/2003 6:11am

Nice job Ken.

TwinbNJ

Senior Member

Registered: February 2003
Location: NJ
Posts: 375

6/23/2003 1:20pm

Ken - excellant! the sharpness and colors are wonderful. Great job.

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Jill

KenB

Senior Member

Registered: July 2002
Location: Michigan
Posts: 186

6/23/2003 6:41pm

Thank you all for your comments.

Ken

vijayan

Member

Registered: January 2003
Location: Trivandrum, India
Posts: 73

6/24/2003 12:40am

As you said may be some unpleasant colour cast occured there but your effort is worth for a reference to others to come along..
Actually i also inspireed..
That is why I turned other way and desided not to touch with a brush.

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Thanks,

Vijayan
vijayan@nova-concepts.com

aspi
Junior Member

Registered: April 2003
Location: Washington State
Posts: 12

6/24/2003 3:16am

Ken,
Wow! Great job on a really tough challenge. The colors, skin tones and crispness really make for a reclaimed treasure.

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Chris K.

Cvandever

Junior Member

Registered: May 2003
Location: Crossville, TN
Posts: 3

6/25/2003 5:25pm

great job it looks as if the picture was taken yesterday.

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