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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / CMYK mode also kinda works
« on: Wednesday 05 April 06 02:07 BST (UK)  »
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.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / One more thing..!
« on: Tuesday 04 April 06 21:04 BST (UK)  »
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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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can you make my dad better please?
« on: Tuesday 04 April 06 20:53 BST (UK)  »
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.



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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Help with Grandpa Richard please
« on: Monday 03 April 06 00:39 BST (UK)  »
A little better

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Clean up and Colour
« on: Sunday 02 April 06 14:55 BST (UK)  »
Funny... the public domain image we've used here (also used in Wikipedia) is probably a handmade copy of an older engraving:
http://www.jiten.com/media/1/20050415-Noah%20Webster3.jpg
This last one is much better

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Clean up and Colour
« on: Sunday 02 April 06 14:46 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Andrew123 on Sunday 02 April 06 12:21 BST (UK)
Nice work rkaa (you actually made him look normal!), but did you read my second post? :D

Andrew

Yes.. I read it ;)
It's an engraving of Noah Webster, born Oct. 16. 1758, West Hartford, Connecticut. He wrote a dictionary. Found the image here and downscaled:
http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/public/webgrey.JPG

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Clean up and Colour
« on: Sunday 02 April 06 05:16 BST (UK)  »
Just a quickie.. Some retouching of the eye area which seemed to be slightly damaged

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: A HUGE thank you to all those who give up their time to help
« on: Thursday 12 January 06 21:49 GMT (UK)  »
I did one of them, so thank you for your enthusiasm, always nice.
I guess you hit the magic button with your images: They are not too small and not too damaged by jpg compression - always more tempting to give it a try then.

R.K.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can anyone add some colour to this photo?
« on: Thursday 12 January 06 02:53 GMT (UK)  »

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