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Tom Trevelyan
Junior Member
Registered: May 2002
Location: North Wales, UK.
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This was a terrible experience. The photo seemed so degraded that almost any intervention made it worse. Desaturation and Auto Levels for example revealed a grainy mess lacking in detail. Everything I did turned to dust and scratches.
So I thought – what the heck, this is a memory, not a candidate for an art gallery. So I decided to accept the grain and blur and concentrate on bringing the figures out of the background.
I created a mask that blacked out the figures and the margins and had a black to white gradient in the background. I used the new Lens Blur filter to smash out the cows. Then I used the Lighting Effects filter to highlight the figures and cast a directional light across the image from the lake. Then I desaturated it, added a Levels Adjustment Layer in Hard Light Blending mode and fiddled around with the usual Clone Stamp, Dodge, Burn and Patch tools. Finally I brought a copy of the original to the front and used Color Mode and a low opacity to add back the sepia.
I’m a novice, see, and although the result is cr** it taught me a great deal. Mainly how to use the minimum number of steps possible to get the result you want or you end up making things worse and correcting your corrections – a well as getting no sleep.
I’ve had enough now. I’m off to catch rabbits. Is there a counselling service for Post Photoshop Stress Syndrome?
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| · Date: 7/8/2004 · Views: 4744 · Filesize: 38.7kb, 219.8kb · Dimensions: 1482 x 1435 ·
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Keywords: Restoration Challenge #68
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Gary Richardson
Moderator
Registered: March 2004
Location: Yorkshire, England
Posts: 2,717
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We've all been there Tom, don't beat yourself up. It's all part of the photoshop learning experience. By the way did you catch any rabbits?
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Gary
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Doug Colwell
Senior Member
Registered: October 2003
Location: Alberta
Posts: 157
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Not a conventional restore, but I really like this. All of the elements (grain, detail, tones and blur) work very well together. If you covered up the clone tracks on the left under the cows, (and maybe evened out the shadings on the border), I think it would be the perfect (nostalgic) restoration.
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Marc
Junior Member
Registered: January 2004
Location: Leverkusen, Germany
Posts: 8
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Uncommon solution, indeed. But the idea is cool.
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Tom Trevelyan
Junior Member
Registered: May 2002
Location: North Wales, UK.
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No I didn't catch any rabbits. I had to make do with pedigree chum.
By the way, I've discovered something about the lighting effects filter. Instead of applying it to the target layer I applied it with the same settings to a grey layer in overlay mode above the target layer. To my surprise the effect was very similar, but the result more malleable. I am also trying it out on white layers in multiply mode and black layers in screen mode. A new take on painting with light.
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