Heat damaged from 1971

[hawkeye60]

I've had this photo for many years and just decided to tackle it...I'd be curious to see if anyone can do any better with it.

[curtism]

I converted to LAB mode and gave it a try, but I like your effort better.


Curtis

[0lBaldy]

Not better... just a different, quickly done version. Painted on color layers

[leanan`si]

Tired eyes here and I got sloppy with the FIREWORKS signage colour replacement exercise. Good practice though, thanks

Leah M

[Cassidy]

Thought I'd have a play with this, used HSL and reduced the saturation of the yellows, made an adjustment layer for the grass and gave it back some colour, did a colour replacement on the sign, sharpened and then fixed a few holes and stripes it revealed with the healing brush

[captnblack]

Hi all

New member, first post.

Just the basics on this photo.

Levels, desaturation to get rid of the yellow, re-colorization, and then deconvolution with IA.

[Kraellin]

looks good, captnblack.

and welcome to RP.

[lurch]

Here's my take on the photo. Duplicated the image and, on the duplicate, increased yellow saturation until the discoloration clearly stood out. The blue channel from that duplicate, inverted and with a contrast boost from a curve, became my mask for the yellow discoloration. Back on the original image, I did one layer of global yellow reduction (sampled the yellow in a 'neutral' area, filled a soft light layer with that color and inverted it) followed by a new yellow-reduction layer using the discoloration mask. This produced a fairly even, bluish, washed-out image. Used a couple of curves to set neutral points and skin tones. Then masked selective color and hue/sat layers to tweak colors. Burned the vertical light streak. Did a modest smart sharpen. Made a black/white adjustment layer set to luminosity to improve tone (I think it was MarkZebra who gave us this tip). Finished off with an unadjusted soft light curves layer.

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