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| | Photo Restoration Repairing damaged photos | 
05-03-2008, 03:04 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 3
| | | Help needed restoration 70´s picture Hi all,
I´ve benn following the forum for over a year now, always with no stress or oppertunity in my mind.
Now the sister of my wife gets married suddenly in 14 days and we want to put together a collage...And guess what al old pictures turned ...well uhh old.
So while i´m trying to fix these pictures with the little knowledge i have i´m asking you if you can give me some directions the you would restore these pictures!
Thank you already and i´ll keep you posted reagrding my own progression! | 
05-03-2008, 03:42 AM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Northern Hemisphere
Posts: 496
| | | Re: Help needed restoration 70´s picture Used auto levels and removed noise
Total time: 30 seconds
I'm sure it can be done better... Quote:
Originally Posted by mauricep Hi all,
So while i´m trying to fix these pictures with the little knowledge i have i´m asking you if you can give me some directions the you would restore these pictures!
Thank you already and i´ll keep you posted reagrding my own progression! | | 
05-03-2008, 12:09 PM
|  | Junior Member | | Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 2
| | | Re: Help needed restoration 70´s picture Less than 10 minutes. Levels adjustment layer - adjusting RGB levels separately; color adjustment layer to tweek color (to get the diaper white); Neat Image filter to clear noise; then minor cloning.
Not perfect, but better maybe.
Hayhill | 
05-03-2008, 06:12 PM
|  | Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: somewhere over there
Posts: 5,896
| | | Re: Help needed restoration 70´s picture very nice, hayhill 
__________________ Craig
(primarily using paint shop pro photo xi) | 
05-03-2008, 08:08 PM
|  | Junior Member | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: North Carolina
Posts: 10
| | | Re: Help needed restoration 70´s picture Here's my try:
Digital Roc
Amphisoft sharpen
Imaginomic noise removal | 
05-03-2008, 08:32 PM
|  | Member Patron | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Raleigh, NC
Posts: 70
| | | Re: Help needed restoration 70´s picture Mauricep,
It sounds as if you may have a lot of photos to deal with. Since we can safely assume they are of different ages and quality, you may be better off creating an "action" that uses an "automatic" correction method, rather than a "fixed" one... similar to what Frank suggested above. The advantage would be that the "automatic" correction would compensate for differences in the photos. By creating an "action", you only have to open the photo, then apply the "action". This also saves a lot of time. You can then selectively make additional corrections to only those photos that need it.
So, use the "help" menu to read up on "actions". It is much like recording your keystrokes in any other application. Once created, you can apply it on demand. You can even use the "batch" command to apply the action to an entire folder of images. (I'll let you read up on the "batch" command.) But, to get you going I have copied/pasted the method to create an "action" here from the help menu in Photoshop: When you create a new action, the commands and tools you use are added to the action until you stop recording.- Open a file.
- In the Actions palette, click the New Action button , or choose New Action from the Actions palette menu.
- Enter a name for the action.
- (Photoshop) Choose a set from the pop‑up menu.
- If desired, set one or both of the following options:
- Assign a keyboard shortcut to the action. You can choose any combination of a function key, the Ctrl key (Windows) or Command key (Mac OS), and the Shift key (for example, Ctrl+Shift+F3), with these exceptions: In Windows, you cannot use the F1 key, nor can you use F4 or F6 with the Ctrl key.
- (Photoshop) Assign a color for display in Button mode.
- Click Record. The Record button in the Actions palette turns red .
- Important: When recording the Save As command, do not change the file name. If you enter a new file name, Photoshop records the file name and uses that file name each time you run the action. Before saving, if you navigate to a different folder, you can specify a different location without having to specify a file name.
- Perform the operations and commands you want to record.
- To stop recording, either click the Stop button, choose Stop Recording from the Actions palette menu, or press the Esc key. To resume recording in the same action, choose Start Recording from the Actions palette menu.
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05-04-2008, 05:23 PM
|  | Senior Member Patron | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: GrandPrairie.TX
Posts: 393
| | | Re: Help needed restoration 70´s picture Here is my try. Pretty much the same as the others, only I did an extra levels adjust on just the left side. | 
05-07-2008, 09:51 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 3
| | | Re: Help needed restoration 70´s picture Hi all,
Thank you for all your help. My results reflect perfecty the input you all gave me! And it gave me a good opty to gain on my Photoshop knowledge!
Greetings from
Belgium! |
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