Washed Out

[Cumbrian]

Can anyone do something with this photo of my Gt Grandad and some of my aunties.its a bit washed out.Thank You.Cumbrian

[Cassidy]

Created a duplicate of the pic and set the blending mode to multiply and then masked off the areas I wanted darkened

[Cumbrian]

Thank you Cassidy,thats a lot better.Would you like another more awkward challenge.Cheers.Cumbrian

[Cassidy]

Everyone very helpful here Cumbrian

[DCobb]

This is my try at this. I started with the original image. Then in addition to what has been done I tried to improve the focus and did a little smoothing of the skin on the ladies. The focus adjustment produced some small artifacts.

dc

[des151]

Hi Cumbrian,
I like the old b&w pictures. Also your Gt Grandad has a great mustache.
Ray

[Swampy]

I selected the luminacity (Mac Option+Command+Tilde) and jumped it to a new layer, set that layer for Multiply. (Dupe the multiply layer one or more times to make the white areas darker). Ran a highpass on a merged version.

[chillin]

I duplicated the layer, adjusted levels to match the sides of the original & use masking to blend with the background layer. Some high pass filter & toning.

[Cumbrian]

Thank you DCobb,Des151,Swampy and Chillin for your excellent results,much better than my own effort,i am now practicing with some of your techniques.Thanks Again.Cumbrian

[Alison]

Hi Cumbrian,

Here is my effort, but I can't remember all of what I did Got some artifacting going on in the blown out areas.

[Cumbrian]

Alison thanks for another excellent effort,i am amazed how well you have all done with this photo.Thanks Again.Cumbrian