If you color correct by the numbers, you should be able to recover much of the natural color balance. You need to set your highlight, shadow and mid points so that the RGB values are as close to equal as possible. The attached gave me the following values: Highlights - 244/242/244 Shadows - 15/14/14 Mids - 131/130/129. You should be able to see the anchor points when you open the picture and go to curves. Let me know if you need more info.
Also, I ran image thru Neat Image and agree. I wasn't overly impressed.
Cheers
Duv
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Thanks for the link... I've tried a few suggestions from that thread to no avail... I think the filter they suggest may not be very effective with such a high resolution original.
I am also looking for methods of adding color other than working with hues... For example, if the volkswagon in the image was originally light blue instead of white, how would I go about changing that? I effectively converted most of the white areas of the photograph into greyscale, as the original colors were lost in development/over time...Leave a comment:
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You might find this thread useful in dealing with the hexagonal texture...Leave a comment:
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What am I doing wrong...
I've been working on restoring a photo from the 1970's and frankly, I have no idea what I'm doing wrong/right/etc... Included are links to a before and after shot... Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks!
Before: http://www.13kingdoms.com/images/postpro/before.jpg
After: http://www.13kingdoms.com/images/postpro/after.jpg
Higher Resolution Before (for editing): http://www.13kingdoms.com/images/postpro/higherres.jpg
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Prior to color correcting a photo, how to you assess it to determine the color correction needed? I have a heck of a time determining whether a photo has too much cyan or whatever. I know how to correct by finding a spot that should be neutral and using the eyedropper in PS7 curves, but I need to have...12-22-2003, 04:55 PM -
Hiya,
Trying something a little different this time but yet another old photo. Not as badly damaged as the last one and this time absolutely no negative. Pic of someones uncle long since gone, but i want to enhance for his mother.
I've got bigger pic but i've resized for...05-05-2005, 03:45 AM -
I am still new to the repair, retouch and colorizing of old pics.
can anyone tell me why when i try to colour part of an image it dose not
show up as the colour i choose, it shows up much lighter or not at all.
any help at all would be great.
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Hello guys,
I am currently working on this image where the model has a black outfit. What do you think would be the best way to change to the color of the belt around the neck and the dress to white ( as in the image below), while retaining the texture (of course).
I was thinking...08-02-2014, 03:50 PM -
Hi Everyone....I'm aspiring to break into the world of retouching. I have been dabbling with retouching for a few years now....nothing professional, mostly personal self potraits and friends & family. Over the past year I have started to really dig into all the techniques and seeing which work...10-09-2008, 02:02 AM
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