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WWII Dad in Semi-Color

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Phillip Whitt Junior Member Registered: February 2003 Location: Columbus,GA Posts: 2 users gallery	I wanted to give this photo a slight hand tinted look while maintaining a sepia quality. I plan to upload a restored version more closely resembling the original photo soon. My steps were: 1. Split image into RGB channels 2. Kept the blue one. Duplicated background layer, set blending mode to screen, and lowered opacity to 50% 3.Masked the man and replaced the background-it's usually faster for me to replace backgrounds than to repair them 4.Used render clouds filter using two shades of gray close in value. 5.Repaired some of the larger cracks/tears with AKVIS Retoucher-a real time saver ( check www.akvis.com for more info on this plugin) 6.Selectivley used dust and scracthes filter on face, uniform and hat. 7. Used clone tool to clean up misc blemishes 8. Used hue/sat/brightness command to colorize picture to a nice sepia tone 9. Colorized buttons, face, etc for the light tinted effect
	· Date: 8/1/2004 · Views: 5314 · Filesize: 38.4kb, 405.2kb · Dimensions: 704 x 839 ·
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Doug Colwell
Senior Member

Registered: October 2003
Location: Alberta
Posts: 157

8/1/2004 3:11pm

This looks great Phillip - subtle coloring and very fine detail work.

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havril
Junior Member

Registered: March 2003
Location: Haifa Israel

8/1/2004 3:33pm

Excellent use of color without losing that old look.

pjb

Member

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

8/1/2004 7:01pm

Wonderful job on color and detail

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Neve

Senior Member

Registered: July 2004
Location: Australia
Posts: 836

8/1/2004 7:57pm

This is excellent. I always seem to obliterate natural textures but you've retained those on his jacket and hat. Thanks for the link to AKVIS, I'm happy to check out anything that saves time with restoration...!

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Pauline

Chris and Nic

Junior Member

Registered: July 2004
Location: UK
Posts: 2

8/2/2004 1:49am

Great work. I love the depth of field created by the blurred background and realisic jacket texture

Chris

steve glomski

Junior Member

Registered: June 2004
Location: Chester UK

8/2/2004 5:09am

Hi Phillip,indeed ,very high quality restoration, fantastic idea with the yellow color.

Phillip Whitt
Junior Member

Registered: February 2003
Location: Columbus,GA
Posts: 2

8/2/2004 8:11am

Thanks very much, everyone!

Timbo

Junior Member

Registered: July 2004
Location: Sheffield UK

8/2/2004 12:38pm

Very nicely done.

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FrannyMae

Member

Registered: July 2004
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Posts: 92

8/2/2004 7:57pm

You did such a great job on this...the colorization is subtle yet effective. You have managed to maintain great texture as well...I strive for results like this, but haven't gotten there...yet! Super job.

Matt Roberts

Junior Member

Registered: December 2002
Location: Australia

8/2/2004 8:38pm

Great work Phillip,

Like the other members I like the light touches of color.
And the right side of the face is really well done.
The only suggestion I can make is -
The soldier's face and uniform have a fair amount of grain.
Yet the background is very very smooth.
Add noise-amount 3 – gaussian - mono - applied to the background
would even out the grain over the whole photo.
This is just my opinion.
Many people may prefer a smooth background to a grainy one.

Matt

Phillip Whitt
Junior Member

Registered: February 2003
Location: Columbus,GA
Posts: 2

8/2/2004 8:56pm

Thanks everyone for your comments. I agree, Matt-the background is smoother than I intended. I did add a very small amount of noise and used the gaussian blur.
It basically cancelled out what I was attempting.

Phillip Whitt
Junior Member

Registered: February 2003
Location: Columbus,GA
Posts: 2

8/2/2004 10:17pm

I went ahead and added noise to the background because it really needed it, and I brought out a little more contrast in the badge on his hat - I think it's a bit better

ckc108

Junior Member

Registered: August 2003
Location: Singapore
Posts: 1

8/2/2004 10:44pm

I can never get such smooth comlexion on the face. Very detailed restoration and thanks for the excellent steps.

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dandelion

Junior Member

Registered: March 2004
Posts: 3

8/4/2004 3:00am

Very nice, like your retouch!

Mosha

Member

Registered: July 2004
Location: Monterrey, México
Posts: 50

8/6/2004 1:03am

Phillip:
Every time I get into RP I get sooo depressed...When am I going to be able to do what you all do....!!!!

I would like to ask you some questions and see if I understood:
After step 7., I imagine you merge back the channels...yes?
Then you used Image>Adjusments>Hue/Saturation/lightness, to get the sepia tone (can I use Image>Adjustmens>Variations instead...?)
Finally you isolated the buttons, face, etc. to colorize.....yes?
How do you colorize a picture, I've never done it...do you again do it with Hue/Saturation or use other tools.
This question goes to all the experts that can teach me how to colorize an image.
Please be thorough in your instructions.
Thanks

Mosha

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