Help needed restoration 70´s picture

[mauricep]

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!

[Frank Lopes]

Used auto levels and removed noise
Total time: 30 seconds

I'm sure it can be done better...

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!

[Hayhill]

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

[Kraellin]

very nice, hayhill

[womanmarine]

Here's my try:

Digital Roc
Amphisoft sharpen
Imaginomic noise removal

[TommyO]

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.

1. Open a file.
2. In the Actions palette, click the New Action button , or choose New Action from the Actions palette menu.
3. Enter a name for the action.
4. (Photoshop) Choose a set from the pop‑up menu.
5. If desired, set one or both of the following options:
6. 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.
7. (Photoshop) Assign a color for display in Button mode.
8. Click Record. The Record button in the Actions palette turns red .
9. 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.
10. Perform the operations and commands you want to record.
11. 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.

[Dave.Cox]

Here is my try. Pretty much the same as the others, only I did an extra levels adjust on just the left side.

[mauricep]

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!

[lilysharon]

Originally Posted by womanmarine

Here's my try:

Digital Roc
Amphisoft sharpen
Imaginomic noise removal

That looks amazing.
Just missing a little details in the diaper but other than that, great!

[Kraellin]

i had a go at this and found this one fairly easy:

color balance adjustment layer (mostly killed the red completely in the shadows)

brightness/contrast adjustment layer (very little here)

copy merge and paste to new layer

digital camera noise removal medium to strong with a touch of sharpness added.

a little 'clarify' and another color balance adjustment layer to fine tune things.

[philbach]

I used curves to partially correct the color and contrast. I then used Lab to adjust saturation and tone. I used neat image to decrease grain also.

[secretagents]

I have Photoshop 5 since very recently and I am just experimenting a bit with this awesome piece of software at the moment.

So here goes my attempt at restoring this pic. Although it is by far not perfect I am quite pleased with the result.

[philbach]

Good job secretagents. I looked at your retouch and compared it to mine. I haven't looked at my retouch for a few days. I think mine is too blue. Yours may be a tad too yellow. My guess is that the best color would be just a little bluer than yours and quite a bit more yellow in mine. Just a thought

[secretagents]

Yeah I think it is quite alright overall. There is maybe a yellowish tone but I quite like the overal color balance and vividness I got (to my taste). There are greenish areas I am not happy with on the baby but I could not fix them without messing up the feel of the entire pic so I left it like that.

Yours is not too fantastic IMO.

[carb]

used picture windows pro to take out red cast, than to Photoshop to adjustment curves. still has a green cast.