Hi Bruce - I scanned a lot of photos a few years ago and restoring the colors was nowhere near as easy as it has become these days. In the past I usually resorted to adjusting each color channel with levels or curves in Photoshop or PictureWindow.
These days, if there is anything even close to neutral in the image, the Lightroom white balance eyedropper tool can make the basic adjustments with a click. It's uncanny how many times it gets the photo close on the first try. After that, if you still need to "adjust to taste" the individual channel adjustments are available in the curves panel. But it's usually easier and good enough to use the hsl sliders. The time consuming part is correcting all of the dust spots. There is so much crud embedded in the emulsion of these old slides. I rarely have the patience to fix anything but the biggest most annoying spots. These will never be works of art, but I can at least restore a few to remind me of that vacation trip. gs George Sinos -------------------- www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.com On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > It's good to have this shot of it though, in case the canyon gets lost > or damaged. > > The restored image's patina really adds something special to it, I > feel. I like it. > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:46 AM, George Sinos <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> This image was restored from an old transparency. Almost 40 years >> old, badly faded, the slide had almost reached the end of its life. >> After scanning and a little work with Lightroom, the image will be >> around for a few more years. I'm sure after the picture is long gone >> the canyon will still be there. >> >> <http://georgesinos.com/blog/2013/7/22/grand-canyon-1975> >> >> gs >> >> George Sinos >> -------------------- >> www.GeorgesPhotos.net >> www.GeorgeSinos.com >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
