Found this picture of an uncle of mine. It was in an ice chest in a very wet basement. Thank goodness the somewhat air tight chest protected this and other pictures of my family. Not much to do with this photo in restoration but as you can see after scanning it in color mode it shows up some serious mold and other unknown growths. I also scanned it in a grayscale mode and no change only the mold is not in color. Question is this -- if the picture was cleaned before scanning I know it would be better but I don't know a safe way to do that. So any help with that would help. Then if I do try working it as is what procedure is going to give me the most sucess removing the colored creatures growing on the face of Uncle Dan?

bcarll

This is my try

-Started with channel mixer set to monochrome: R (+29), G (100), B (-44) This went a long way to correct many of the color problems.
-Painted out the hot spot on forehead and then went over the area with the healing brush to give it matching texture.
-Brun tool
-Clone
-Healing brush and patch tool
-Contrast adjustment


dc

After checking the channels, all them got noise individually different of amounts, the red was the best so it got least after this it was desaturated and despeckled together and colorized

saby

DCobb, and Saby, Both are really nice work!

this was a very good picture to work with. wasn't much damage to repair. I thought i would try my hand a coloring. I haven't done to much coloring but it was worth a try.

excellent job, dc.

and great coloration, saby, though i dont quite agree with the coat color choice.

also nice, unimatrix. a bit yellow in the face. i'd say your suit color choice is fairly close also, though a tad light, i'm thinking.

you guys been taking skill pills or something?

also, if anyone can answer the original question by bcarll that would be great.

Very nice work

zganie

excellent job, dc.

and great coloration, saby, though i dont quite agree with the coat color choice.

also nice, unimatrix. a bit yellow in the face. i'd say your suit color choice is fairly close also, though a tad light, i'm thinking.

you guys been taking skill pills or something?

also, if anyone can answer the original question by bcarll that would be great.

Hi Craig,

You've right, these kind of work needs more aware, I've been waiting for the scanner when i've done. Hopefully at the weekend i'll do it againg. This is a great picture to practice. :grin: I prefere something instead of skill pills, like Villányi Cabernet Frank:grin:

saby

If you are talking about physically cleaning the print, this might help.

Here is the site for PEC 12 a cleaning product.
http://www.photosol.com/pec12.htm

You could also use Google for answers to your topic. If you are near a major city with a museum, they might have someone that could give you help.

dc

saby, i dont understand the reference but i do understand the jist of it :)

thanks, dc :)

Craig, in Hungary "skill pill" a word with double meaning one of them when teacher tells to student after excellent examination other is the dope

saby

I couldn't resist.

This is such a great picture and I love to colorize.

The stains live almost entirely in the Blue channel, I removed them with a channel blend of the Red and Green.

A little cloning and patching fixed most everything else up nicely.

Then a couple of different sharpening moves.

To add color I converted to LAB and painted directly into the A & B channels.

The last thing was back to RGB for a luminosity blend to add shape.

Regards,

Michael

saby,

ah, i would have never guessed. i simply meant it to mean that you all did a good job on this one :)

graphics23,

a bit splotchy in the face and some distinct red in the beard. otherwise looks pretty good.

Craig, I've never thought You are talking about dope, It was my far-fetched comparison for a joke

saby

hehe, no, not talking about dope. and i think i get the joke now :)

bcarll:

Like DCobb I used a Channel Mixer layer, and selected the monochrome option which got rid of the mold. I did a little cloning to remove the other spots.

Then I colorized the face, tie, put a little yellow in the hair, and a slight wine color to the background.

Alan

nicely done, alan.

Everyone did great jobs here 's what I could do

I just painted all of it

looks good, dmax. would prefer it in a larger format, though. hard to get in close to see detail when they're that small.

yeah I am also willing to show its high resolution file but due to limited file size :( ,, I have much bigger version if you wanna see I could send you on your email

yeah I am also willing to show its high resolution file but due to limited file size :( ,, I have much bigger version if you wanna see I could send you on your email

don't U have some place at Your gallery?

i wonder too

saby

yeah I am also willing to show its high resolution file but due to limited file size :( ,, I have much bigger version if you wanna see I could send you on your email

To save the picture for posting, instead of using 'Save As', use 'Save For Web'. You'll get a much smaller file size that retains the dimensions of the photograph.

Janice

What a beautiful portrait and everyone's renditions are marvelous.

I gave this a try too and followed (I forget who mentioned using the channel mixer thing) but this was my first try at using that and I was very happy to have discovered its usefulness :) .

From there, I think I just did my usual cloning (very little needed) and then I think I ... I did some dodging and burning to get the b&w to a good point. Then I began colorizing with different layers for the few different colors, all with layer masks and I think that most of them were set as "overlay" with different opacity values. Then, I saved as "for web" and decreased the quality of it so that it would reduce to the 100kb size.

I think that minus many, many interruptions, this probably took me 2.5 hours to do. How bad is that for a semi-newbie? Or, maybe I should ask, how much faster should I be and learning techniques that could quicken the time? Also, not happy with the beard-border on the side left side, not sure what I needed to do to make it blend better.
(Please be kind.)

Thanks!

Thanks everybody i dinnt know about save for web option well its very cool to show images to web .. thanks again now here it is the bigger version

dmax, much better! and a very good job.

i'm still of a mind that that coat is a gray, but nice job regardless :)

and one more thing Icramer53 these type of photos need maximum 10 minutes spending more time on this is total waste..

Thanks Dmax, I definitely need to practice more :) .

:) well I love to tell you may be it help you out somewhere I used soft brush blending mode =color uses different colors coating 1st A0410A then FDC689 with different opacity to give some shine aloso add little red color then again orange red color to bring shine

Dmax, thanks for sharing your technique, I've never used the soft brush blending mode but can see that I need to try it out. You did a beautiful job and I really like the colors you used too. :)