Julie Hartman
Leading Member
my parents? i have clone stamed, painted, cropped, blurred and history brushed and i cannot seem to help this picture at all. suggestions appreciated!
thanks,
julie
thanks,
julie
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Hi Julie:
I spent a little time on this, but it has a long way to go. I think this picture could be restored to a very good state with some time and effort. Is this looking any better than you were doing?
Bitplayer
To err is human, to post-process -- divine.
I spent a little time on this, but it has a long way to go. I think this picture could be restored to a very good state with some time and effort. Is this looking any better than you were doing?
--my parents? i have clone stamed, painted, cropped, blurred and
history brushed and i cannot seem to help this picture at all.
suggestions appreciated!
thanks,
julie
Bitplayer
To err is human, to post-process -- divine.
Julie Hartman
Leading Member
hi Bitplayer. yes, this looks SO much better than my effort. can you give me a summary of your workflow? how did you get the background so clean? i can't seem to get the yellow cast out of it. thank you so much!
I spent a little time on this, but it has a long way to go. I
think this picture could be restored to a very good state with some
time and effort. Is this looking any better than you were doing?
--my parents? i have clone stamed, painted, cropped, blurred and
history brushed and i cannot seem to help this picture at all.
suggestions appreciated!
thanks,
julie
Bitplayer
To err is human, to post-process -- divine.
mwelli
Member
Converting it to B&W eliminated most of the staining. I added a few touch ups, plus a sepia tone. Might not be what you're after, but it sure was easier than fixing the color version. 
Mike
Mike
Julie Hartman
Leading Member
hey Mike. that looks pretty good too! you're right about b&w. i think that is the most success i had with it after hours and hours of stamping. thanks for giving it a try.
julie
julie
Converting it to B&W eliminated most of the staining. I added a few
touch ups, plus a sepia tone. Might not be what you're after, but
it sure was easier than fixing the color version.
Mike
Julie:
Photoshop did most of the work with auto color correction. I increased the saturation in one layer to bring out the colors in the foreground, but masked out the background and anything else that had too much cast. I made a yellow adjustment layer and set it to "difference". I then masked this and used it sparingly to subtract out some yellow, especially on your mother's dress and father's shirt. The rest is cloning.
There's plenty more cloning to do. Also, I would use a skin color cast to bring back some color in the faces. Then I would use Painting with Light to re-establish shading. Except for the yellow subtraction, I didn't do much with your father's shirt. The vertical pattern will make cloning difficult. I think I would play with the yellow subtraction there more carefully and perhape add another color adjustment layer to paint in the shirt color. I think that may be the greatest challenge. Finally, I would try slightly bluring and darkening the background to establish the foreground (people). You'll do better with the original, hopefully higher resolution image.
Good luck with your efforts.
Bitplayer
To err is human, to post-process -- divine.
Photoshop did most of the work with auto color correction. I increased the saturation in one layer to bring out the colors in the foreground, but masked out the background and anything else that had too much cast. I made a yellow adjustment layer and set it to "difference". I then masked this and used it sparingly to subtract out some yellow, especially on your mother's dress and father's shirt. The rest is cloning.
There's plenty more cloning to do. Also, I would use a skin color cast to bring back some color in the faces. Then I would use Painting with Light to re-establish shading. Except for the yellow subtraction, I didn't do much with your father's shirt. The vertical pattern will make cloning difficult. I think I would play with the yellow subtraction there more carefully and perhape add another color adjustment layer to paint in the shirt color. I think that may be the greatest challenge. Finally, I would try slightly bluring and darkening the background to establish the foreground (people). You'll do better with the original, hopefully higher resolution image.
Good luck with your efforts.
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Bitplayer
To err is human, to post-process -- divine.
Wilkev
Senior Member
Hi Julie,
Skin tones could be better, but I wanted to post it tonight. A lot of stuff went into this; before anything, I applied noise reduction (Neat Image), then overall color adjustment in curves using the eyedroppers, then tweaking the histogram in levels, more curves, adjustment layers (selective color and hue/sat) for fine tuning, slight background blur, and of course, cloning and healing for the stains. The framing effect I just threw on at the last moment. Thanks for letting me work on the photo.
Bill
http://www.pbase.com/wvphoto
Skin tones could be better, but I wanted to post it tonight. A lot of stuff went into this; before anything, I applied noise reduction (Neat Image), then overall color adjustment in curves using the eyedroppers, then tweaking the histogram in levels, more curves, adjustment layers (selective color and hue/sat) for fine tuning, slight background blur, and of course, cloning and healing for the stains. The framing effect I just threw on at the last moment. Thanks for letting me work on the photo.
Bill
http://www.pbase.com/wvphoto
my parents? i have clone stamed, painted, cropped, blurred and
history brushed and i cannot seem to help this picture at all.
suggestions appreciated!
thanks,
julie
George45
Senior Member
I think I gave up after an hour O'man I applied everything but chicken soup haha Bill sure did a good job That is what I was after??
Looks like he used a prime lens with the good colors he got and I really like his Frame wish I could remember what action it was he used on it? I got so many it would take me a hour just to find it?
Well here is mine
George Rosema
http://www.pbase.com/grosema
20D and L Lenes from 1.2 and up
Looks like he used a prime lens with the good colors he got and I really like his Frame wish I could remember what action it was he used on it? I got so many it would take me a hour just to find it?
Well here is mine
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George Rosema
http://www.pbase.com/grosema
20D and L Lenes from 1.2 and up
my parents? i have clone stamed, painted, cropped, blurred and
history brushed and i cannot seem to help this picture at all.
suggestions appreciated!
thanks,
julie
Wilkev
Senior Member
Thanks, the frame only took me about a minute at the end. No action, I like to do them myself although I have a zillion frame actions, too. There are, of course, lots of ways to make frames but here's my favorite way: after you're finished post processing, flatten image and unlock the background layer. Make a copy of that layer. Drag and drop the copy layer below the unlocked original layer. In the bottom copy layer, do the expand canvas technique, 50 pixels height and width on an 800x600 is a good start. You can now fill the canvas with anything, solid color, gradient with two colors from your pic, for example. You can add texture to that fill, adjust levels, and adjust hue/sat too. Gradients look nice. In this example, after expanding the canvas, I grabbed the Free Transform tool and expanded the image out in all directions beyond the canvas by grabbing the anchor points. Still in that bottom copy layer now, apply Gaussian Blur. That's it. Another forum member had a lot of trouble with the Free Transform tool step so I posted some screen shots for her here at http://www.pbase.com/wvphoto/framing_instructions . As a final step, optional, you can add styles (drop shadow, narrow border, or bevels for example) to the inside image itself. Do this by working in the top unlocked original layer to apple the styles. This photo has a drop shadow and bevel. All this can be done in PS Elements too!
Bill
Bill
Julie Hartman
Leading Member
Wow Bill. that is so beautiful! thank you so much for working on it. i guess i need to invest in Neat Image or some other noise software too. you are very talented.
my parents? i have clone stamed, painted, cropped, blurred and
history brushed and i cannot seem to help this picture at all.
suggestions appreciated!
thanks,
julie
Julie Hartman
Leading Member
you guys did such a good job. much better than the mess i made of it!
julie
julie
my parents? i have clone stamed, painted, cropped, blurred and
history brushed and i cannot seem to help this picture at all.
suggestions appreciated!
thanks,
julie
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