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I've been asked to "fix" this old photo of my daughter-in-laws uncle who is since deceased. I've done all of the touch up I can do in PSPXI, but can't get any features in the face to look like I'd like them too. It just looks washed out still.

Anybody want to take a shot at it??? Please let me know what PP you used.

Thanks in advance...

Here's the original:



Here's the fixed one:



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Jim....
Las Vegas....but it's a dry heat.
 
james kilpatrick said:
Oops....grabbed the wrong ones. Hope these are better.

Original:



PP'd as far as I can go:



Thanks again...

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Jim....
Las Vegas....but it's a dry heat.
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Conrad 'Bye Bye' Birdie
'Aspire to inspire before you expire'.
 
Very good. Definitely the face had to be quite a lot darker to give it its shape.

I don't like the posterized gradient in the OPs "after" image, with it being a simple background to repair I'd leave it true to the original also.

Andrew
 
Here is my attempt, the mash is pretty crappy so sorry about that, Also there is still colour casts in the buttons and hair that need correcting. The skin dones is also too washed out/saturated certainly needs tweeking/overpainting.

The basic work flow was mask the seperate areas, correct the colour/levels/curves in each, dodge+ burn a background, clean up noise, then a little USM sharpening.
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I looked up pictures of Army dress uniforms and none of the colors were ... uniform. This version has less yellow in it. Still just guessing, though.



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~ Peano
 
Here is my try, using PSP9. Much cloning, smudging, PWL, HSL, and colorizing. Not sure if the uniform color is exact, but I was in the Army during the 60's and this is how I remember my uniform.



Regards...

Allen
 
james kilpatrick said:
I've been asked to "fix" this old photo of my daughter-in-laws
uncle who is since deceased. I've done all of the touch up I can
do in PSPXI, but can't get any features in the face to look like
I'd like them too. It just looks washed out still.

Anybody want to take a shot at it??? Please let me know what PP
you used.

Thanks in advance...

Here's the original:



Here's the fixed one:



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Jim....
Las Vegas....but it's a dry heat.
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This is one of those photos that I would really love to see what Scott Deardorff's smuding techniques could do. Anyone seen Scott lately??
Conrad 'Bye Bye' Birdie
'Aspire to inspire before you expire'.
 
Peano said:
I looked up pictures of Army dress uniforms and none of the colors
were ... uniform. This version has less yellow in it. Still just
guessing, though.



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~ Peano
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I do like what you have done, especially with the background and colors, but the hair (to my eyes at least) still has too much green. What do you think?
Conrad 'Bye Bye' Birdie
'Aspire to inspire before you expire'.
 
Conrad Birdie said:
I do like what you have done, especially with the background and
colors, but the hair (to my eyes at least) still has too much
green. What do you think?
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Yes, on my monitor, it does have a yellowish tinge, sort of green. See if this took care of it.



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~ Peano
 
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