can these light/color bars be removed

Edfishing · #1 02-08-2008, 06:21 PM

Hello Everyone Thank you in advance for helping me. First off I use PhotoShop 7.01 to work with Photos. Second I'm a newbie only been useing Photoshop about 6 months. Can any one tell me whats wrong with my picture, is this light bleed through. I did a little reading on your site, need to learn terminaligy and spelling. Can anyone look at my pic and point me to a tutorial so I can learn how to fix pictures.Thank you all ED

mistermonday · #2 02-08-2008, 07:57 PM

Edfishing, welcome to RetouchPRO!
Your image looks like it took a couple of detours in the developing / printing process. Roller marks in several different places all very different colors.
One suggestion is to crop the image and extract the people so you can replace the background. Channel mixer or curves or level adjustments can help restore the color in the faces. The clone tool can be used for the small solid lines running across the faces.
Here is a quick pass without any fine tuning.
Regards, Murray

Edfishing · #3 02-09-2008, 12:26 AM

MisterMonday Thank you very much for your advice. I will try your tips. This pic is of a friend and his wife. He is here in ohio, but his wife is in Kenya where their from. I,m trying to fix the pic for him. Thank you for your help Ed

Gary Richardson · #4 02-09-2008, 01:20 PM

This is about as good as I could get it, still needs some work but I'm a bit short of time at the moment.

Basically I took it a channel at a time, copied the channel I was working to the alpha, selected bright areas and adjusted it with levels to get even tones, then copied the alpha back into the channel i was working on. Did this for each of the R,G and B channels.

Little bit of cloning to hide edges, and a little colouring in selected areas.

0lBaldy · #5 02-09-2008, 03:41 PM

Took the blue channel evened the balance with levels and cloned and healed the two debarkation lines
Played with blending options found one that worked well with the blue channel copy (think it was screen)
cloned out the remaining faint lines
levels and sharpened some

Daviskw · #6 02-09-2008, 05:43 PM

Color layers...cloning... dodge and burn.

Butch

chillin · #7 02-09-2008, 06:55 PM

I used the curves to carefully fill in the bands, rest healing cloning, smoothing levels & some more curves adjustments… basically no quick fix.

Edfishing · #8 02-09-2008, 07:45 PM

Thanks everyone for your help. I stumbled upon your site in the hope of finding some tutorials on how to fix pictures. I am surprised at your fast response, and you guys worked on the pictures. This site is first rate. Thanks to all of you for showing me what you did, and the process you took. Now I,m off to your library to read, read, read. Thanks you guys your the best Ed