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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: Jean_UK on Sunday 27 August 06 17:35 BST (UK)
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Hello
I have often browsed this forum and wondering if some one might advise me so I decided to join.
This photo looks as if it must have got damp at some time. What is the best way to remove the orange patch.
Jean
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ooops silly me clicked the wrong button
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Here is my attempt hope its ok. :)
Euro.
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Hi Jean
I am unable to advise you on removing the stain from your actual photo but I am sure others will.
Here is a cleaned up version for now.
David
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One more for you
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Hello Euro and David
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I am amazed how quickly you have done it.
Now I can't decide which I like best but I will print each and see which is best once printed.
Thank you both.
Jean
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Hi Jean :)
I would advise you not to touch the original photo, it seems to be doing alright apart from the discolouration, and any attempt to interfere with it will probably cause irreparable harm. Store it well, wrapped in a pH-neutral paper (note: not buffered/alkaline! pH must be 7.0 or slightly lower) or, if you live in a low-humidity area (say, below 60% on average) you could store it in a plastic sleeve (polypropylene or polyethylene). That should keep the photo happy for a long time to come :)
Prue
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Here's my attempt. One B&W, the other sorta sepia ;D
Di
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Hello Prue and Di
To Prue, I shall certainly take your advice and not touch the original and thank you for the advise how to store photos.
To Di, thanks you so much. I have printed all of the them and will have a time deciding which is best.
Thank you all for your considerable efforts.
Jean
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Heres a cleaned up version !
Carolyn :)
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This photo looks as if it must have got damp at some time. What is the best way to remove the orange patch.
Hi Jean, welcome to RootsChat.
The quickest way to deal with this sort of colour mismatch problem is to look at the different colour channels. In the RGB colour space you have three channels, one each for red, green and blue. If you look at these channels one at a time you will see that one of the channels will look better than the other two depending on the colour of the stain in the photo. In this case the best channel I found was the Red channel. I copied this channel onto it's own layer then I adjusted the levels to lift the brightness and contrast. I then clean the scratches an tears and run a noise removal filter to smooth out the grain. Finally I added a sepia tone to give the photo that period look.