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11-03-2009, 06:26 PM
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| Help! Can anyone help me to restore this photo of my great grandfather it is the only one there is and I don't use photoshop only picasso  |
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#4
11-04-2009, 02:52 PM
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| Re: Help! Hiya Shirley, Welcome to RTP. You've picked a doozy to start on  ...To be honest there's not much of an image to work with under the tape, and I think you'll be very lucky to get anything out of it, without physically painting it in freehand, which would be nigh on impossible, being as you've no idea what he looked like exept for this photo.I had a quick play with it using selections and levels adjustments to try and even out the tone of the image, as you can see I only did a little around his face. Regards....John |
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#5
11-04-2009, 04:06 PM
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| Re: Help! I've had pretty good luck removing old tape very slowly and then getting a better scan. It might help with this particular photo. I would start out by using darken/lighten over the tape area to gain consistency to overall photo. Then select torn area and move to more closely match pieces together. Then use scratch removal to remove most of the tape edges. See sample of what you should have once you do the above mentioned suggestions along with suggestions on information framing. From there, you can clone some area and then reduce fade and add sepia. You may have to settle for less than you may want in order to keep it from turning into a cartoon character. Well worth putting the effort into it if you want to keep it for family historical purposes and maybe a wall hanging with information on an added lower border, like name, date ect. Good Luck! Edit: I agree completely with what TommyO says below. Last edited by aartist; 11-04-2009 at 09:02 PM. |
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#6
11-04-2009, 07:32 PM
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| Re: Help! Shirley, Anyone attempting it would certainly like to have a higher resolution scan to work with. Otherwise, neither they nor you will be pleased with the end result. As the others said, it is a difficult restoration and would easily take a few days to get it right. I toyed with some quick scenarios to check the potential, and there is quite a bit that can be recovered. Unfortunately, it will take longer to match the damaged areas to the undamaged, and of course clone in the missing parts. If you get someone to do this for free, more power to you. Unfortunately, not many will choose to do so. We normally get so many people posting just once to ask for free restorations, that is why the site has a general rule not to do so. But, it's certainly up to the individual members. Best of luck with it, and we would hope that you would be interesting in learning restoration. If so, check out the free and very powerful GIMP software. It has many similar features to Adobe Photoshop or Corel Paint Shop Pro. Simply google them. |
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#7
11-05-2009, 12:56 AM
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| Re: Help! Quote:
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Dunno if he had a goatee or not but he got one now.. used copies of the channels in lighten and darken mode and adjusting opacity to get a pretty even tone then some cloning in lighten and darken modes plus some healing to even things out a bit after I screwed em up.. I'm not a very good artist so the hair looks pretty bad.. some of you smudgers out there could probably fix it fer her.. Oh well, here is my attempt at your picture |
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#8
11-05-2009, 02:29 AM
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 Re: Help! Thanks very much anything would be an improvement. I started my photoshop course today When I got there I found out it was for Macs and I use a PC. Alot is the same but the one thing that I notice is that I don't know how to smudge it must be different. Oh well I will go back tomorrow it can't hurt. |
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11-06-2009, 06:03 AM
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| Re: Help! Hi Cuocake His name is Garnet Worsley |
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#13
11-09-2009, 11:48 PM
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| Re: Help! this would be pretty close to my stage one, find the image. i used a lot of tools to get to this. first, i did a channel mixer. "huh?" you might say. channel mixer? yep. you can use channel mixer to get some contrast going between the channels. i dont use it often, but this image needed all the help it could get. channel mixer added a bit of a color change and an overall color tint, so, i thought i'd make use of another 'trick' by contrasting color to black and white. for this, i used to 'change to target' brush in psp x2 and painted the gentleman but not the background. i also did a fade correction, contrast/brightness adjustment layer and a curves layer using the contrast setting and then doing a mild S curve. i also did a color adjust HMS (highlights/midtones/shadows). to correct the banding across his face, i used psp's lighten/darken brush, darkening the light band while lightening the darker areas till they fairly closely matched. i also used the 'change to target' brush some more for this. from here, i would probably clone the background first. this is easy work and cleans things up rather quickly making the rest of the job easier. from there, take your pick, but it would probably be pretty much my standard fare of clone, airbrush and push (heavy smudge). |
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