I Need Some Help

[Aqua4ever]

Hi. I'm new to this site, this is actually my first post. But I was needing some help with how to restore this photo. (It was one of the challenge photos) I am wanting to start learning how to do photo restoration but this is my first try and have never been taught before. I would also like some info on how to go about coloring this...

Thanks,
Aqua.


Original Image: http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/.../Challenge.jpg

Retouched Image:http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/...gestarteds.jpg

[crfbillmann]

Hi Aqua

Looks like you have pretty much overdone it. A Restoration to me means, to clean it, remove scratches and keep as much of the Original Look and Coloring of the Image as possible.

I can´t give you an advise that will work for every image. But if you want i can send you a psd-file with were you can try to see my single steps.

Just let me know.

Regards Chris

[rbrum]

Originally Posted by crfbillmann

Hi Aqua

Looks like you have pretty much overdone it. A Restoration to me means, to clean it, remove scratches and keep as much of the Original Look and Coloring of the Image as possible.

My first post but I agree with crfbillmann! Maybe you should try just to remove the "yellow" spots and the scratches and live the rest as it is...

rbrum

[Aqua4ever]

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I wanted to remove the texture from the background, but when you do that you lose a lot of detail.

[Southbay]

^ FFT for the bgnd. Info here http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/pho...oshop-cs4.html

[chillin]

You could use Image Analyzer for the paper texture, frequency separation for the spots, curves adjustments for the dark half of the face, again FFT (Image Analyzer)... & then a fine tune work & colorization.
I have attached a sample after the first steps.

[Aqua4ever]

I don't understand how to get it on a Mac..

[chillin]

Here you can find a link for MAC.

[rbrum]

Originally Posted by Aqua4ever

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Sorry!... English is not my main language, I'm from Portugal.