Shel I missed a lot of this and this technique may already be known to you, but if not here it is. The best technique I have found in Photoshop is to use the automated tools and place the history brush memory on that history event. Then back up a step prior to the automated event in history. Select the history brush and set the settings. Simply now brush in the effects of the automated tool only where it needs them thus not damaging the quality of the good parts of the image.
Email me off list if your interested in some plug-ins. Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 6:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: WOW - Suggestions for Cleaning Up a Scanned Negative > > > It's actually coming along rather well, although it does require a lot of > detail work. Imagine scratches across faces, big white splotches on skin, > lots of specks on clothing, all combined with a poorly exposed (burnt > highlights, deep shadows, bright sun) and badly processed negative. 'Tis > quite a challenge. At some point I'll put up the original, if ever I get > it completed. > > Shel > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Jostein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Actually, I think that your best friend will be planning, but it's > > hard to give any specific advice from the small section you posted. > > In principle, I would have tried to work within each structure in the > > pic first, and then do the edges between them last. > > If not pixel by pixel, it looks a big job no matter how. :-( > >
