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Re: Restoring partially faded colours and lightleaks in photographs
« Reply #9 on: Friday 27 March 15 12:48 GMT (UK) »
This is the same image I posted above, just finished off with balancing the colours a bit.

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Re: Restoring partially faded colours and lightleaks in photographs
« Reply #10 on: Friday 27 March 15 13:03 GMT (UK) »
....and for those that might be interested, here is another version of this I did for fun to try out a different technique on it.
I did this one by using the blue channel which is the only channel that is undamaged by the original discolouration. I used "apply image" in normal mode to replace the red and green channels with the blue. Then adjusted the channels individually using levels. Then a few adjustment layers to adjust the colours as needed. A D&B set of curves to finish off.
Interesting I though and it seems to have worked ok.
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