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Offline jakky

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Can you make my dad better please?
« on: Tuesday 04 April 06 16:59 BST (UK) »
Hi,


Hoping for some help please



Jakky
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Re: Can you make my dad better please?
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 04 April 06 17:18 BST (UK) »
I'll try my best, but we're all going to say, bigger scan please, that ones tinnie tiny.

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Re: Can you make my dad better please?
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 04 April 06 17:31 BST (UK) »
Here is one at that size, not much could be done.

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Re: Can you make my dad better please?
« Reply #3 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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One more thing..!
« Reply #4 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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Re: Can you make my dad better please?
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 04 April 06 21:25 BST (UK) »
Thank you for letting us know how it was done Rkaa, it is my something new learnt today  ;D

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Re: Can you make my dad better please?
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 04 April 06 21:53 BST (UK) »
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
Thomas.  Wigan Bolton & Fleetwood
Wilcox. Liverpool & Fleetwood.
Lamplough. Hull.
Hallam. Wigan & Bolton
Jordan. Hackney.
Burtonwood. Wigan,Bolton
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CMYK mode also kinda works
« Reply #7 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.