Very good. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jostein Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 2:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: To rescue a family photo
Okay, I have made an attempt at Lasse's photo. I use Photoshop 7.01 Lasse's original is at: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2187459 Mark Dalal's suggestion is here: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2187853 I had already started looking at Lasse's image when Mark posted his. Mark used colour balance to adjust for the blue tint, which was what I tried first too. I was not very pleased with my result (not as well tweaked as Mark's), so I went for another method. I realised that the different colour layers in the film had probably aged at different speeds, so the blue tint was actually a lack of the other colours. With this in mind, I looked at the separate R, G and B channels, and applied Auto Level Adjustment to each. This landed me at a much better image, but with a blue/magenta tint. This tint was easy to correct, using the same as technique as Mark; to adjust Colour Balance. Here's the actual numbers: Shadow: no adjustment Mid-tones: Cyan-Red: +26, Magenta-Green: +12, Yellow-blue: -23 Highlights: Cyan-Red: +2, Magenta-Green: +17, Yellow-Blue: -28 The result of this was an image with colours I liked, but looking very gritty. The process so far took 5 minutes, just like Mark's. Then I loaded the file into NeatImage, and did a noise reduction based on data from the dark coat of the woman to the left in the picture. Finally, I spent some time removing scratches. All together, I used about 15 minutes. Here's my result: http://home.online.no/~jooksne/wow/wow1.html Comments are most welcome. Jostein
