Hi Mark, Thanks for taking a shot at it! That's probably really close. The stair color was "aqua". I don't know if anything there was gray. But your skin tones look pretty spot on.
On Sun, Oct 3, 2021 at 3:23 PM Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Gonz - > > I pulled your photo into Photoshop CS6, cropped out the margins and then > applied auto colors. After that, slightly darkened the midtones in > levels. The result: > > https://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/old-photo-touchup?blog=9 > > It's hard to judge the colors - skin tones, the wooden chair back, the > wooden picture frames look OK and the ceiling in the upper right is > white, which seems logical. If there was something in the image that I > knew was gray I'd open levels and click on it with the midtone > eyedropper. That usually helps restore color balance. > > I inherited a bunch of very old faded prints a few years ago, and it was > amaze how much info would pop out of them just using auto color. > > Mark > > On 9/30/2021 11:52 AM, Gonz wrote: > > Scanned an old negative. Played around with the usual knobs, but cant > > seem to get it to look decent. There is not enough dynamic range here > > it seems. I've seen articles somewhere where they make old photos > > like this pop out almost to new. How does this work? > > > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/66982297@N02/51535604096/in/dateposted/ > > > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- --Gonz -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
