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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: jakky on Tuesday 04 April 06 16:59 BST (UK)
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Hi,
Hoping for some help please
Jakky
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I'll try my best, but we're all going to say, bigger scan please, that ones tinnie tiny.
Sharon
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Here is one at that size, not much could be done.
Sharon
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The stripes were easily removed by blurring the a and b channels in Photoshop Lab mode. There were almost no stripes in the L channel (luminosity). Since this was basically a b&w image, the a and b channel could be blurred completely without damaging the image as such. A little work with retouching and patch tool also and a slight toning. All in all less than 5 minutes.
Pity the scan is so small and very damaged by JPG compression.
(http://www.minneboken.com/rkaa/sailor.jpg)
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This was a prime example of how important it is to use color scans. If the image had been converted to B&W, or scanned in B&W, the luminosity channel would have been damaged with stripes, making it very hard to repair.
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Thank you for letting us know how it was done Rkaa, it is my something new learnt today ;D
Sharon
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Thank youso much,
you are all so clever, in my feeble defence I was given a paper photocopy and that is what I scanned, I have no idea where the original is,
I am thrilled with the results
Thank you again
Jakky
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I'm not really sure which apps do Lab mode. I use PSCS2. I know Elements doesn't have LAB. But with a little more work, a similar approach can be used in CMYK color mode, where the K channel represents the "blackness" of an image. Allthough coarser, it does resemble the Lab mode's L channel.
(Remember to convert to RGB before you save as JPG. And always save at maximum quality.)
R.K.