[Bill Cotter]

I'm sure that this question must have come up before, but I couldn't find any posts on this, so please bear with me. I would appreciate any help in learning how to fix slides or negatives that have been exposed to light, probably during the loading of the film, like the one attached. This was probably a case of not advancing the leader enough after loading the camera. If anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.

Thanks

Bill

(larger image at http://www.billcotter.com/misc/braniff.jpg if that helps)

[Daviskw]

Just for fun I duplicated the file then cropping to the right side.

Then used match color with the original...got it pretty close.

Then a little healing brush and clone and noise reduction.

Butch

[Cameraken]

Hi Bill

Welcome to Retouch Pro

If you look at the channels you will see the right side of each channel is lighter than the left side.
I used levels to equal the right and left sides

Once this is done you will notice that the red channel is poor.

I used channel mixer to make a new luminosity layer from the green and blue channels.

Once the colour was put back I added a new layer to colour in the damaged areas

If you need more help take a look at the bottom of this page where pictures with similar faults are listed.

Hope this helps

Ken.

[Swampy]

Ken, that is amazing! Would love to see you do a tute on this!

[Daviskw]

Very good job Ken...I was too lazy to recolor but even if I had I could not match yours.

Butch

[Cameraken]

Hi

Thanks for your comments Swampy and Butch.

I looked in the tutorial section and there is no tutorial on light leaks so if Bill gives his permission to use this picture I guess I could write one.

Would anyone else be interested in a tutorial?

Ken.

[Gary Richardson]

Nice work Ken, I'm sure there's a number of people would like to see a tutorial on what you did.

[grannysdc]

Originally Posted by Cameraken

Hi

Would anyone else be interested in a tutorial?

Ken.

YES !!

You make wonderful, comprehensive, well written, easy to follow Tutorials, so Yes cubed!

[katew]

Yes please!

[mistermonday]

Ken, you did an outstanding job! I find a really high % of images requiring restoration have the problem of "tone damage", sometimes with and without color shift. Light leaks are one cause but you find the same effect on images which have liquid spills, fading due to asymetric light exposure, camera lens flare, and others. I think a tutorial would be well received and appreciated by all.
Regards, Murray

[dmrdm]

Ken, your retouch was great. Attempted to re-create but failed, so I hope you are able to do a tut. Hope Bill wasn't a 1 time poster & visitor and returns to give you permission to use the pic. I'm going to continue to bang my head against the wall until then and keep trying. Searching a few of my books to see if I find the topic discussed in one of them also. Again, great job!

[chillin]

Bill asked the question & with this tutorial you would give your answer.
Nice work, Ken.

[Swampy]

I PM's Bill, so hopefully he will come back and give a nod to Ken.

[Bill Cotter]

Wow! That is impressive, to say the least, Ken. I would love a tutorial on how you pulled this off, so please feel free to use the photo as part of it.

Thanks to the other posters who added advice or suggestions as well - all input has been appreciated. I'm learning just how little I know about Photoshop. Like many others, I tend to use the same tools over and over and don't touch 99% of the capability it has, so having my eyes opened like this has been something.

Bill

[Swampy]

Look forward to the tutorial, Ken! :-)