I just wanted to share this with everyone. I received this pic from a friend of mine. An old family photo that was about 2x4 printed on metal and hand colorized. Its not complete yet, but I was just so happy that it took me about 15 minutes to get to this point. I guess this was a good day. I have also been reading Katrin Eismann's "Restoration & Retouching" as if it were my bible. I suggest it to everyone.
I scanned in the image at 600 dpi and 8x10. The first thing I did was duplicate the original layer, create an adjustment layer and select levels, moved the sliders way to to left and threw away some unnecessary information, which brought out the colors and contrast that cannot be seen in the original. It also brought out all of the scratches in the background. I selected the upper background, and ran dust & scratches on it until most of the scratches and spots disapeared. Now I have some minor (maybe not so minor) clone stamp work to do and work on the edges. Normally I would have fiddled with other adjustments which would have taken alot more time to get to this point. I have others if anyone is interested.
I do have a question - I always scanned my images in at 600 or 720, then I am afraid to reduced them. Result is my 30G harddrive is filling up fast. Is there any rule for this?
I scanned in the image at 600 dpi and 8x10. The first thing I did was duplicate the original layer, create an adjustment layer and select levels, moved the sliders way to to left and threw away some unnecessary information, which brought out the colors and contrast that cannot be seen in the original. It also brought out all of the scratches in the background. I selected the upper background, and ran dust & scratches on it until most of the scratches and spots disapeared. Now I have some minor (maybe not so minor) clone stamp work to do and work on the edges. Normally I would have fiddled with other adjustments which would have taken alot more time to get to this point. I have others if anyone is interested.
I do have a question - I always scanned my images in at 600 or 720, then I am afraid to reduced them. Result is my 30G harddrive is filling up fast. Is there any rule for this?
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