Photo Retouching - - Over exposed picture

jenjen · #1 06-07-2005, 09:18 PM

Hi all! My mom gave me these pictures of her when she was little and wanted me to fix them up. My only problem is that this particular picture is too light and when I try to lighten it up it doesn't look right. I attached before and after with only adjusting the tone of it. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Jen

jenjen · #2 06-07-2005, 09:23 PM

Sorry that they are so big, their not that big in photoshop.

Kraellin · #3 06-07-2005, 11:24 PM

just as a quick reply, without actually pulling your picture and playing with it a bit, try adding some rather strong contrast filtering. this shld compensate for the washed out effect. that would be a first step.

K.

Gary Richardson · #4 06-08-2005, 12:18 AM

Hi Jen, try copying the image onto a new layer, set the blend method to multiply, now duplicate this layer till the image has a bit more body to work with.
Now apply a levels or curves adj layer to up contrast.

Any further improvement will need some hand touching with local curves adjustments or dodge and burn adjustments.

Below is your image after a few multiply layers and a general levels adjustment.

Hope this gives you a start, best of luck with your restore.

Lioth · #5 06-08-2005, 05:32 AM

Here is another way to get you started. Duplicate background layer, apply image>adjustments>equalize. Adjust opacity, I used about 80.

jenjen · #6 06-08-2005, 02:17 PM

Thanks for your input. I'll start working on it when it cools down in here. I'm for ohio and it is about 90 + in my house right now.

Jen

Kraellin · #7 06-08-2005, 03:41 PM

i took a look at this in psp 7. this is one using just the histogram adjustment tool. i dont recall the exact settings, but what you want is to move the curved line over to the right over to where the image graph is showing data. if you need the exact settings, i can prolly retrieve them. just play with it a bit.

Craig

jenjen · #8 06-08-2005, 10:00 PM

oK what do you guys think? I set the layer to multiply and dublicated it 4 times. Then i think i added a level Adjustment layer and set the white and black points. Then i put it through the neat image filter and did some cloning.

I don't have 7.0 so i couldn't use the histogram tool.

Jen

Kraellin · #9 06-08-2005, 10:31 PM

pretty good jenjen. wish there was a way to bring out those faces more, but couldnt find much detail when i split out the color channels. you certainly got it cleaner.

Craig

jenjen · #10 06-09-2005, 10:44 PM

Ok here is the deal. I guess there is 2 versions of this photo. She want just one picture of everyone together. So this version here (2nd) I couldn't fix it because it lost too much info where it was light. So I copy and paste the far right onto the other. The problem is that I can't get it to look natural. Any tricks that I don't know about? I'm using PS 6.0. Thanks!

Jen

jenjen · #11 06-10-2005, 04:24 PM

Does Anyone know how to add detail back into faces?

Jen

Racc Iria · #12 06-10-2005, 05:01 PM

You can't add detail back in if it wasn't there to begin with. The only thing you could do in that situation is create it from scratch (manually paint it in) or take it from another source (other photos from the same time period).

Otherwise, all you can do is clean it up as best you can and mayble try to sharpen it a little.

--Racc

jenjen · #13 06-11-2005, 09:15 PM

Does anyone know of a website where if you need to replace a body part you have it. Pictures of people close up.

Jen