How can the pinkish stuff be removed

[John L Gray]

Have done a number of restorations but this one really has me stumped. I use PScs3 with my restorations. Would appreciate any advice on how to proceed to removed the pinkish stuff.

Thanks, John

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1ZlQ...n4a1_thumb.jpg

[tawnidilly]

The picture needs to be larger please.

[sergio2263]

Originally Posted by John L Gray

Have done a number of restorations but this one really has me stumped. I use PScs3 with my restorations. Would appreciate any advice on how to proceed to removed the pinkish stuff.

Thanks, John

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1ZlQ...n4a1_thumb.jpg

Yes picture is too small a larger file would help and be easy to work with.

[John L Gray]

Thanks for input. Here is a larger image


<a href="http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1aZsFDYx4m3ByhODMXOztaU2BpTPo0"/><img alt="Picture hosted by Pixentral" src="http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1aZsFDYx4m3ByhODMXOztaU2BpTPo0_thumb.jpg" border="0"/></a>

[0lBaldy]

Originally Posted by John L Gray

Thanks for input. Here is a larger image


a href="http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=13VJHoJviSrGEZSSDCl61VMpvP0FTb"/><img alt="Picture hosted by Pixentral" src="http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/13VJHoJviSrGEZSSDCl61VMpvP0FTb_thumb.jpg" border="0"/></a>

Still just shows the thumb

This address might work better: http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?pi...n5tg2SY3ACAYH0

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sort of like this

[John L Gray]

Thank you OlBaldy

John

[0lBaldy]

Originally Posted by John L Gray

Thank you OlBaldy

John

Yeppers YW!

Guess I was a little late in responding though... Your last address shows an even larger picture @ http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?pi...DCl61VMpvP0FTb

Hope you get an answer.. I want to know also!

[Tony W]

Found this one quite difficult - not sure what the 'pinkish stuff' is but hope not to see it again

Tried a couple of techniques without success then getting frustrated by lack of progress (and knowledge) came up with the following - only concentrating on the face and hair -although not really happy with the result I think with a lot more care and finesse it could work quite well.

1. On background copy use Color replacement tool on face and hair sampling best colours
2 Apply curve layer to hair and adjust for near match
3.Apply curve layer to face and adjust for near match
4 New layer Clone & heal blemishes
5 Final layer D&B on face

Hope that it may give you some inspiration (even if it is not to try this way ).
I do hope that someone will step up and offer a more elegant solution.

[John L Gray]

Thanks for your help with this image.
John

[lurch]

Easy way - I converted the image to L*a*b and made a mask of the pink area; added the inverted a channel to the b channel with offset -75, scale 1.3, saved it as a channel, and upped the contrast hugely with levels. Then Gaussian blurred the mask about 5 pixels. Then converted back to RGB.

The key here is remembering that a color image has luminosity and it has color. If the luminosity is right it's a cinch to correct color. So I created a grayscale layer for the photo and set its blending mode to luminosity. Clipped an adjustment layer with the pink spot mask to the luminosity layer and darkened the area that was pink-stained with a curve until the tones matched. That left pattern on the man's shirt somewhat lacking in contrast, so I used another masked, clipped adjustment layer to correct that. Fixed the edges of the masked area, mostly with Photoshop CS5's content aware healing brush. Doesn't work for everything, but when it does it's wonderful.

The last step, on a layer set to color mode, was to brush away the stain by painting with a color mode brush using a color sampled from nearby. Flesh tends to vary in hue and/or saturation, so it's best to use a low-opacity brush and sort of blend colors. Clothing is more forgiving.

Here's my result. Took about as much time as it took to type this one-handed

[rv1589]

Hey Lurch! I have a question for you. I am fairly new to Photoshop retouching, but have come across many occasions when seniors advice to change to different color modes like you have advised to move to lab mode initially here. The thing is how would I know for myself when to change to which color mode and for what kind of image.

[John L Gray]

Hi Lurch,

Thanks for the directions to correct the pink on the image. I going to apply your directions today.

Thanks again,

John

[chillin]

Unfortunately, there isn't a quick fix for this one.
I selectively applied different settings of HSL & curves to different parts of the picture + Some cloning & D&B. It still need some work...

[lurch]

@John - after I went to bed last night I remembered one omitted step. That was to invert the mask channel so it would reveal the correction in the right places. That's best done before contrast enhancement.

@rv1589 - The first thing I usually do is look for channels with contrast in the stained areas. If RGB doesn't have any, I check the Lab and CMYK modes, with an eye to what I can get out of the calculations command. Unfortunately there isn't any rule of thumb to guide this; just fiddle around - play with calculations and you'll learn what works. Cricket1961 is a master with calculations. Check out his blog.

[Kraellin]

lurch, chillin,

very nice, both of you

[Tom_M]

Hi All - I haven't read this forum in a few months, but decided to swing by this morning and spotted this old thread. I never had to deal with this particular type of damage before, so decided to try my hand at this restoration.

My approach was to:

1. Import the image using ACR 6. Brighten, remove some noise, reduce contrast (used "recovery" to reduce oily shine, "fill light" to fill in the deep shadows), tweak the areas of good color, and a bit of sharpening all in this one initial step.

1. Select the discolored areas using Asiva Select.

2. Use a combination of color balance + hue / sat adjust to remove most of the pink / magenta cast from the selected areas.

3. Fix, as needed, any remaining pink with the clone tool set to color, and/or reduce the effects of step 2 by painting in black on a mask for step 2.

4. Down-rez for web, sharpen using smart sharpen.

5. I didn't feel like dealing with recovering part of the hair, so I just ignored that part of the restoration, but introducing hair texture is pretty straightforward.

It was an interesting challenge. Certainly not trivial.

Cheers,

Tom M.

PS - Sorry for the quality=3 jpg. If I went any higher, I would have exceeded the 100k limit, and I didn't feel like down-rez'ing below 800 px wide. Arghhh.

[unimatrix001]

The shirt could use more work... ran out of time this morning have to head out for work. but thought i would post my results so far.
I used many selective color and levels adjustment layers.finally had time to finish this picture. The second picture is the finished version

[kevinashworth]

Hi John here's my two-penneth worth..

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/7351/finishedv.jpg

I'm pleased with the lady's face, but the gentleman's shirt was very tricky.