After severe water damage, years later

[Ron_H]

This is a section of a photograph covered with rippling of emulsion. First: what is this phenomenon commonly called? I keep thinking there is a means to just pulling off thr data sans linear noise. I have no idea how to go about it. Does anyone else. The stuff around the hat I could clean up by hand and have, but the face of the old man is a show stopper. Any ideas? Anyone? n I'd like to salvage the facial characteristics

Ron_H

[Chain]

I don't think there is any easy way to clean this up. Only lots of manual work...

[Kraellin]

the problem with cleaning up the face is that this was a bad photo to begin with. the eyes are heavily shaded and it's slightly out of focus. so, you can clean up all the damage but you've still got a bad photo. if you really want to do something with the face it's going to take a bit of artistry. you might want to think about 'borrowing' some eyes and pasting them in or drawing them yourself.

[learninlady]

Heres a try.

[Kraellin]

that's close, kate. the eyes are a bit weird yet. i know; it's tough

btw, how do you like psp 12?

[learninlady]

Ya know Craig, when yer right yer right.
I have big issues with eyes along with my shadows. Is this any better?

[Mysterious_Em]

I'm curious to know what resolution you scanned? Sometimes, when I have an area with important detail that's been damaged, I find that getting a higher resolution can get more information to work with.

As in, I normally scan at 600, so I try 1200, especially if it's a small photograph to begin with. Then again, I've been told I scan at needlessly high resolutions. I just can't seem to get the results I want any other way. :P

[learninlady]

Actually after posting that redo, its just awful. It looks fine on my program and then when I post it here, its different.

[learninlady]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

that's close, kate. the eyes are a bit weird yet. i know; it's tough

btw, how do you like psp 12?

psp is good, Ive recently been playing and learning cs4.

[Ron_H]

I knew this was a bad photo, but no one in the family even knew it existed. It was passed on in a box that later was in a basement flood, years ago. When going through the box I realized how bad a shape it was in and scanned it at 1200 dpi. I managed to get rid of most of the lines, but I'm really bad at eyes to begin with. Kate helped a lot. I passed it around the family that remembers what he looked like, and they didn't notice the replacement eyes. Just showed their kids what their Great-Grandfather looked like.

[Chain]

Originally Posted by learninlady

Actually after posting that redo, its just awful. It looks fine on my program and then when I post it here, its different.

Probably your color management gone wrong. Make sure your image is converted to sRGB before posting it online (or it will view wrong in the browser - as it has no color management).

In Photoshop to convert to any profile, go to Edit->Convert to profile... you can also use the Save-for-web function from the menu and it will by default convert it to sRGB and compress it more efficiently than the regular "save as...".

[learninlady]

Originally Posted by Chain

Probably your color management gone wrong. Make sure your image is converted to sRGB before posting it online (or it will view wrong in the browser - as it has no color management).

In Photoshop to convert to any profile, go to Edit->Convert to profile... you can also use the Save-for-web function from the menu and it will by default convert it to sRGB and compress it more efficiently than the regular "save as...".

Thats fantastic to know! thank you so much for that advice, very useful to say the least!

[Kraellin]

psp is good, Ive recently been playing and learning cs4.

traitor!

[learninlady]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

traitor!

AH Craig! now play nice....lol
Its not too hard to use, its learning all the tricks all over again, seems I was just getting to the ends of the psp software and now ah, oh well. it is more pristine thats for sure.

[Kraellin]

it's fine, kate. i actually have elements 4.0 and photoshop cs3, as well

[learninlady]

There are still many tool I love on the psp that I cant seem to find the same on cs4. so I will go back an forth between software. as I just like the psp. probably cause Im more familiar with it. Its like a comfortable pair of shoes Craig, just like em! hehe

[Kraellin]

yup, i do all my cloning in psp. photoshop and gimp just dont come close. fade correction and clarify are other examples of psp's tools i like.

[learninlady]

I find I use the scratch remover the most. clone in cs4 is really much better in some ways, and not in other ways, just not familiar with it enough.

[learninlady]

So theres probably not much difference between cs3 and 4 is there?

[Kraellin]

ah, good