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#1
05-23-2005, 10:12 AM
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| what do you think? Well 1st of all how do I add my attachment picture so you can look at it. I'm trying to figure this out but I have a screaming baby here.  I have uploading it and it is on a page that says Attachments Posted by jenjen, But i'm not sure how to put it on here. Jen            |
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#2
05-23-2005, 10:50 AM
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| Hi Jen, if I haven't done it yet, Welcome to RP!  In both: Restoration, Retouching, and Manipulation and Help Forums there is a link to instructions on "Attaching Files or Images to Threads or Posts" Otherwise just follow the first link under my signature ... Also, very, very important are size and resolution of the images attached ... (it's impossible to give advice/help on images slightly bigger than postage stamps ...  ) ... so, before attaching any image to your post, please, follow the second link under my signature for help on size and resolution ....Hope this helps.... |
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#6
05-23-2005, 12:35 PM
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| Hi Jen, You did it!!! The attachment is perfect!!!  One more thing ... you can attach up to 5 images (100 KBs each for a total of 500 KBs) to the same post ... This means you could post original and your correction separately on the same post ... keeping both pictures bigger and easier to work on .... |
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#8
05-23-2005, 02:39 PM
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| this was a little tricky. the more i adjusted the face for hue/saturation/light, the worse the hair got, so i had to create a mask over everything but the hair and treat that separately in another channel. i still had that dark red mark on the side of the child's left cheek and on that, i simply did some hand work with the clone tool, smudge, and jpeg artifact removal and texture preserving smooth. the overall facial color was done on a layer with hue/saturation/light and another on automatic color corrections with the skintones button checked. you could prolly leave a bit of shading on that left cheek. i took most of it out, but it might look more natural with some in. i also did a little blending on the hair line after combing layers. all in all, about a 30 minute job. K. |
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#9
05-23-2005, 03:13 PM
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| Hi, Jen, thank you so much for your kind words!  Quote:
I also found this picture 'tricky' to restore .... as Kraellin said Quote:
When I was happy with the result, I used Hue&Saturation, Selective Colors Adjustment Layers and blank Layers set to 'Color' to fix the colours ... Kraellin, Lacks a bit of texture in my opinion, but great job! |
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#10
05-23-2005, 03:40 PM
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| flora, thank you.... and i agree smudge and clone are not the best tools at times, but i'm still something of a novice when it comes to the 'smarter' tools. and with most of the tutorials aimed at photoshop, it's hard to 'translate' them over to paint shop pro. for instance, what is 'LAB'?i prolly could have also added a bit of noise to get some more texture. faces are a bit difficult for me yet.... as you've seen before  but i is workin on it, m'am.i'm always impressed with your work and always grateful for your encouragements, so thank you K. |
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#11
05-24-2005, 02:48 PM
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| I tried to fix it again but I can't seem to get it down. I did learn something from you two though, i never knew you could put a blank layer to color blending mode and just paint a new color on your picture. Anyway here it is. I tried.  |
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#12
05-25-2005, 04:07 PM
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| that's pretty good, jenjen. trying to match flora's quality is always a trick you might try another layer of hue/saturation/light and nudge it a bit towards the red. it is a bit tricky and skin tones can always give me fits, but you're on the right track! K. |
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#13
05-26-2005, 04:34 PM
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| I agree that with an image this degraded, serious surgery is usually called for. However, it's not impossible to recover a sense of the original colors before going in and cutting masks for everything. This image used a slew of curves and other adjustment layers but retained all original channel information. I moved into lab initially and used three different curves, one violent move to suck the red out, a second to neutralize the background (and bring the rest of the image into some kind of balance) and a third to enhance and separate the colors that remained. I then went back to RGB. I converted another copy to CMYK and used the black channel from that file as a layer mask on a curve adjustment layer in the RGB file and jacked up the master curve. (That's always a good way to enhance "blacks", if the RGB file is deficient in the shadows). Then I applied a host of saturation and selective color and curve layers. This wouldn't be considered a final copy; it is, however, a decent starting point to begin working on things like dress color, background, skin tones, and the resulting moves at that point would be subtle, rather than violent. |
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#14
05-30-2005, 05:30 AM
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| Hi, sorry to get back this late, but I've been away a few days .... Kraellin, thank you so much for your kindness!  In Photoshop, LAB is a colour 'Mode' ... divided in: Lightness/Luminosity Channel A Green-Magenta Channel and B Yellow-Blue Channel. I use the LAB Lightness Channel very often for 'brightening' images up a bit, for substituting damaged RGB channels when necessary (you have to tweak it with Levels or Curves for this), or for sharpening whitout affecting colours... jenjen, very good job!! I agree with Kraellin, though, it needs a bit more red in the skin .... edgework, nice start .... |
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#15
05-30-2005, 08:26 AM
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| Flora, you're most entirely welcome thank you. if i ever get photoshop, i'm going to have a lot of terminology like that to clear up, i'm guessing. in the meantime, it makes it a bit rough trying to follow others' explanations of things when i dont have that particular function or tool. but, despite all that, i'm learning K. |
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