Photo Restoration - - Orange spots

Nan · #1 12-06-2006, 11:47 AM

Is there any way to get rid of the orange spots on this photo?
It's already blurry and I'm not expecting to be able to correct that but I would like to improve the orange spots if possible.
I'm using Paint Shop Pro and I just don't know the best way to tackle this.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Nan

Nan · #2 12-06-2006, 11:50 AM

Sorry, forgot to send the url.
i120.photobucket.com/albums/o174/Nan18_photos/James.jpg

philbach · #3 12-06-2006, 01:26 PM

Well there were a lot of spots. The blue channel seemed to be the most involved. I used Neat Image which helped some and a dash of levels to increase contrast.

Another approach which seemed to work almost as well was to select the blue channel and run surface blur on it.

Nan · #4 12-06-2006, 01:44 PM

Thanks Phil,
That's a lot better than what I got. I tried Neat Image but I must need to play with the settings some more. I'll also work on the levels for the contrast.
I know it's a pretty bad photo to start with so I appreciate your time.
Thanks again,
Nan

jeangab · #5 12-06-2006, 02:08 PM

hi,
same as philbach,
but i used noiseware, and adding a layer with hight pass filter in softlight mode to improve more details.

irshgrlkc · #6 12-06-2006, 02:45 PM

I switched the photo to LAB mode and gently blurred the a and b channels to get rid of the color noise. Then I changed the photo back to RGB and did levels, hue/sat adjustments. Used Neat Image at very light settings to chuck the rest of the noise. Added an overlay layer with high pass applied to slightly sharpen. Finally did some minute cloning/healing to get rid of last little white spots.

It's not perfect, please let me know if you want my exact settings.

philbach · #7 12-06-2006, 07:08 PM

Nice restoration. It looked a tad blue and the white parts of the checked shirt checked out to be blue on the info palette. So I took your image and ran image/autocolor on it.

irshgrlkc · #8 12-06-2006, 09:10 PM

Thanks Phil. Your tweak makes it much better.

I tend to over blue things I work on for some reason, I guess I just like the color blue.

Kraellin · #9 12-06-2006, 10:10 PM

psp's digital camera noise removal, light to medium settings, no sharpening.

unsharp mask.

polaroid's dust and scratch removal, the white specks only.

clone for more specks.

fix his arm with lighten/darken and some very light cloning.

high pass sharpen.

more clone and airbrush to fix a number of other small items.

you could also do a sharpen more on this, but you're going to add a lot of problems with more spots and specks if you do, so i left that out.

i'd also suggest cropping. you dont need all that space above his head and off to the side. this will bring him out more.

Daviskw · #10 12-07-2006, 06:46 AM

Hi there

I blurred the a and b channel in lab then back to RGB for a noise filter. Not sure but I neutralized the white in his shirt and it seemed to remove a lot of red. I am not sure that this is the correct color but it is one that works...lol

Butch

Kraellin · #11 12-07-2006, 09:06 AM

butch,

i looked at yours and mine back and forth and i think i'll go back and look at mine in psp again. i hadnt even paid any attention to the red, even though it's so obvious in his face. thanks and nice job. boy, i gotta quit posting these on the first look-through

Kraellin · #12 12-07-2006, 09:47 AM

ok, i corrected the reds. a bit of color balance, hue/sat and curves (for the black and white points). i also masked the background and ran hue/sat on it and the foreground separately. i didnt want to lose the reds in the paneling while i reduced them on his skin.

i also cropped the shot, both for a better look and to give a better posting here.

Cupcake · #13 12-07-2006, 02:54 PM

Color Balance, Fix all channels.
And sharpen.

Nan · #14 12-07-2006, 05:47 PM

Everyone here worked wonders on this one. I've redone it about 10 times now. I think I'm finished but not completely happy with it.
I was having a problem with chair ending up with no texture left to it so I did some selections. Selected James and ran Neat Image on him. Used curves on him, just used PSP automatic color balance then unsharp mask.
It's probably not the best way but I also did a hue to target on the chin area that was looking too yellow.
I then selected the paneling and did a mild amount of Neat Image on it.
I left the chair alone. I think I also added a very small amount of noise back.
His face still looks a little plastic to me and maybe there's too much contrast.
I'm really loosing perspective on it at this point.
I'm using Paint Shop Pro so the methods some of you used with such good results are foreign to me but thank you so much for all of the input.
Nan

Kraellin · #15 12-07-2006, 05:53 PM

looks good, nan.

one thing, though. if you're using psp 9, 10 or 11, i'd substitute the neat image for psp's own digital camera noise removal tool. it's easier to work with and will get as good, if not better, results as neat image. and it's generally better to err on the side of under-doing noise removal tools. they leave a distinctive blur effect which is evident on your rendition.