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edgework
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Registered: July 2004
Location: Brooklyn
Posts: 474
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Tried a few tricks but wasn't happy with the believability of the color. Seemed, however, that there was enough remaining from the original image that it could be brought back, so I did it the old fashioned way: masks and adjustment layers. Mostly curves, though with the dress I desaturated and then used a curve in luminosity mode to bring out the detail, particularly in the upper portion. I also made a copy of the image (well into the process, not the original) that I converted to CMYK. The black plate gave me a dandy selection that I brought back to my image to give depth to the shadows, and subtracting the inverse of the magenta plate from the Cyan plate in Calculations gave me a decent mask for the tree. Face, arms, hair and dress were quick masks.
Some retouching, though with an image like this it's hard to know what is grunge and what are simply JPEG artifacts.
Overall I like the color. It's not possible in an image as degraded as this to regain the full color profile, but with careful local corrections a fairly believable image results.
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Timbo
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Registered: July 2004
Location: Sheffield UK
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Really nice work, nothing overdone. I really must learn masks and adjustment layers properly, they have definitely paid off here.
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It's better to burn out than fade away!
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edgework
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Registered: July 2004
Location: Brooklyn
Posts: 474
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Thanks for the comment.
Regarding masks: there are some advocates (myself included, at times) who would say that whatever the problems in an image, they affect the image as a whole and it should therefore be possible to reverse engineer the damage, so to speak, with global moves. Once everything is masked out, the reasoning goes, you've lost all continuity between the various elements and no longer have a believable image.
On the other hand, there are others (myself included, at times), who would consider that position idealistic but naive. The truth, as always, lies somewhere in-between. You don't want to jump in and start cutting masks for everything that has an edge; a lot can be accomplished with global moves. But when you need more red in a certain spot, or you want a specular highlight, or some such, nothing works like a mask.
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It doesn't have to be right; it just can't look obviously wrong.
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dslinger
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Registered: February 2004
Posts: 25
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Given the scanty color information you had to work with, I would say you used just the right technique here to bring back the color without making the photo appear colorized or false. The woodgrain and green and red of the tree are especially natural and well defined. Nice work 
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Cheers,
Donna
art intimidates life
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