Flora,

I am always in awe at the work you do. You cleaned that image up real nice. How did you bring out the detail in that image?

I have a question on the technique you recommended. When using the brush, do I paint on the layer, or do I paint on the channel?
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AAARRRGGGHHH!!!!

After posting a reply IE crashed on me and couln't apply the post. I had to come back a do this again. I hate it when that happens!

OK. Let me try this again. I followed your advice Leah so the picture is smaller.

However, for everyone...

Thought I would post the image to give you an idea of the problem.

Also, I would like to know if I was correct. Is this mold? In Photoshop click the magnifying glass, then click Actual Size. The alleged mold will be found around their mouth.

I'm sorry this has taken me...

I have a photo that I am suppose to restore, however, on some of the subjects faces they patches of black specs on them. I am assuming that is mold.

However, the mold is scattered in tiny little specs. Can anyone recommend the fastest way to remove this problem? If possible I want to...

I keep think about this thread that I started and I wanted to clear up any confusion it may have created.

Nothing that I tried solved this problem. In the end I only did 3 of the many pictures that were given to me to restore. They turned out to be horrible, I returned them back to the...

(sigh) Has anyone seen my dunce cap?

Doug,

I tested your first theory of your first reply in Photoshop. It was of a picture of a woman with an orange color cast. My printers print preview didn't display the color cast. That is when I decided to view my color settings...

Doug,

Uhh...The answer to your questions are;
Yes.
Yes.
Don't know.
Haven't tried it.

Vikki,

You might me on to something. How can I tell if my printer is auto adjusting? I saw something in the printers color management...

Vikki,

I have tested that possible theory a long time before my previous post on this subject that you replied to.

It didn't solve the problem. I unchecked all of my printers photo enhancement features because I thought just what you did. That my printer was taking control...

Here I go again.

I give up! No matter what settings I try. No matter how much I learn. I just can't do photo restoration with this printer. It never prints what I see on the monitor. In addition to that, any changes I make to improve the print image end up ruining the photo....

Vikki,

That solved most of the problem. Now if I add a Hue Saturation adjustment layer to give it more color, my printer will now recognize the changes that are made.

The remainder of the problem was due to a editing technique I have learned. I work in the RGB format,...

I have some old photos that a friend of mine gave me to restore.

It really was not a large assignment, because the photos were not in bad shape. They just needed a basic color correction and she wanted her husbands face to be a normal color. His face was really red from years of drinking....

Whew!! False alarm.

It turned out that my printer has the features that were checked. One of them is called Image Optimizer and basically what it does is correct colors, brightness, and tones.

So, it looked at my photo and said, "Oh, you really messed this up bad;...

A friend of my mothers has given me some photos of her and her husband.

I am doing a good job on that part, however, when I print the photo I don't have the same quality that is being displayed on my monitor (i.e. a great looking dark photo may be to bright in print; a good skin color...

john_opitz,

Thanks for the additional information on sharpening. I didn't even know that you could do it that way. That is cool.

However, about the blend it options for sharpening. How is that done? I didn't know about that as a sharpening method either.
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First I would like to apologize to everyone for leaving this topic hanging in the air like this. However, I just received my first assignment.

Unfortunately, it is not a paying one but I'm OK with that. I really need the experience. The person gave me several photos to restore and cr...