Need help removing damage spots from a photo

[seekinghelp]

Hello,
I have a baby picture that has orange colored damage spots on it and would like to know if they can be removed or digitally edited? I have attached the picture. Any help would be great appreciated! Thanks so much...




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[alanH2o]

Hi,

Just cloned with photoshop and a bit of neat image to reduce the noise, would be better working on a larger image but hope its ok for you

[seekinghelp]

Oh my goodness...it looks great! Thank you so much!! I really appreciate your help.

[Kraellin]

very nice, alan!

and welcome to RP to the both of you

[philbach]

I like Alan H20 used the clone tool but also the patch tool. In addition I used a curves adjustment layer to increase the contrast.

[Gary]

The discoloration is only visible in the green and blue channels. So. on a duplicate layer, I selected (generally) the colored areas with the lasso tool then clicked on the blue channel so that it was the only one active. I then applied the red channel to this selection in Lighten mode. I did the same in the green channel. I duplicated the new layer, used the healing brush tool to get any stains missed, denoised. used Selective color adjustments for color, curves for lighting and contrast then added some selective sharpening.

[philbach]

Good Plan and a good job, Gary. Its important as you know to check out the channel info to see if you can use the Apply Image feature in Photoshop

[Gary]

Thanks Phil. I try to make it 'retouching S.O.P'.

[jaxx]

How are the steps to take in order to apply the red channel to the blue. I don't understand how this works.

[Gary]

Originally Posted by jaxx

How are the steps to take in order to apply the red channel to the blue. I don't understand how this works.

Sorry for the delay.

Set a duplicate over top then in the channel palette, click on the blue channel to make it active so that your project now looks desaturated, Image/Apply Image with these settings: Layer= layer 1 copy, Channel = Red, Blending = Lighten, Opacity = 100%. Do the same with the green channel selected then activate the RGB channels. Now you have blended the red channel into both the G and B channels and the results look discolored completely .. if you did not have the yellowed areas selected. If so, then apply a hide-all mask which reveals the original (pre-apply image) and simply paint out the marks with a white brush.

Hope this helps.


Cheers.

[seekinghelp]

Wow, I haven't logged on for awhile and had no idea so many people had fixed the photo for me. Thank you all so much, it looks wonderful! I really appreciate the time you put in on it. Could you possibly look at one more for me. This is a picture of my family that I would love to frame. However, my husband had just turned his hat around so he has a big red mark on his forehead. Any way to remove that? Any help would be very appreciated! You guys do great work!

[Gary]

Originally Posted by seekinghelp

Wow, I haven't logged on for awhile and had no idea so many people had fixed the photo for me. Thank you all so much, it looks wonderful! I really appreciate the time you put in on it. Could you possibly look at one more for me. This is a picture of my family that I would love to frame. However, my husband had just turned his hat around so he has a big red mark on his forehead. Any way to remove that? Any help would be very appreciated! You guys do great work!

I have a larger version on file if you like.

Cheers.

[seekinghelp]

So great...you're amazing!! Thank you very much...
Would you mind sending me the larger image? Just the edited one. Thanks! I'd appreciate it!

[Gary]

You should have mail. If not, I have uploaded and should be available to you here.

https://www.yousendit.com/download/d...cTIwVWxMWEE9PQ

Cheers!

[seekinghelp]

You're SUPER! Thank you so much for your time and help!