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Loving Sisters with Little Brother

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ckc108 Junior Member Registered: August 2003 Location: Singapore Posts: 1 users gallery	This is a re-submission. I've made a level adjustment to enhance the colour. Many thanks to Tom's and Franny's comment. I also tried to centralised the little brother and sisters. Open file in PS7. Duplicate the image & changed mode to Lab Color Saw that the damage is more in channel b Run the Dust & Scratches Filter with radius set at 25 on channel b. This got rid of the yellow blotches. Change mode back to RGB Saw that the Blue is still in bad shape. Selecting only the blue channel. Click Image-Apply Image Source is the Green Channel Target is the Blue Channel. And the Blending mode is Multiply at 100%. With this I got quite a good start point for colour restoration. Added a Level adjustment layer to correct the yellow color cast by using the white & black dropper from it. Pick the white shirt from the little boy with the white dropper and the pick a dark point from the mouth of the little boy with the black dropper. Enhance colour using separate layers with blending mode changed to Color.
	· Date: 8/11/2004 · Views: 3882 · Filesize: 41.7kb, 821.5kb · Dimensions: 800 x 988 ·
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Matt Roberts

Junior Member

Registered: December 2002
Location: Australia

8/12/2004 12:38am

Great work ckc108,

I like the texture and the colors are vibrant.
You did a top job removing those nasty yellow spots.

Matt

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Tom Trevelyan
Junior Member

Registered: May 2002
Location: North Wales, UK.

8/13/2004 10:59pm

I was fascinated by your effort as your technique was so similar to mine, using Lab mode and correcting the blotches in the a and b channels. I invented a novel mode of eradicating the blotches, though I guess I could have used the dust and scratches filter.

Only one amall constructive criticism. Your image has a color cast. I downloaded it and scrutinized it with the Eyedropper tool. The skin tones are stronly magenta and if you look at, say the collar of the little girl top right it comes out not as white but around C 25% M 20% Y 19% K 0%. The big girl's eyeball whites are around C 29% M 23% Y 3% K 0%.

ckc108

Junior Member

Registered: August 2003
Location: Singapore
Posts: 1

8/15/2004 7:17pm

Thanks Matt. I saw yours too. It was very well done too. In fact I saw all your work. It occurs to me the choice our challenges are quite similar and mine is only a subset of yours.

Thanks. Tom. I learn the technique of removing yellow blotches from a book by Katrin Eismann, Title: Photoshop Restoration and Retouching.

Will take a look at your work later to see the smilarity.

If you happens to see all my work in the forum, you'll know that I'm weak in adjustment of colour. I guess my eyes aren't really train for seeing the cast untill someone like DJ or you pointed it out. I really welcome your comment. I am trying to train my eyes to see the cast though.

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FrannyMae

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

8/27/2004 1:36am

ck108, nicely done! This is a much tougher challenge than it first appears in my opinion. The texture just makes things that much more difficult. I like the method you used to get rid of the yellow blotches...quite effective. Your color does seem to be a bit off, as Tom pointed out. I have a terrible time with color as well, and am learning to do it "by the numbers" and not by my eye! I think your picture looks a bit blown out, too. It is just bit to washed out to my eye. Nice work!

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