When I was trying to restore old photos a while back there were several
where it looked like one color faded much more severely than the others
which would throw off the whole color balance. The only solution as to
manually boost the color that was out of wack. But I was working with
prints, not negatives.
Have fun!
On 10/3/2021 7:24 PM, Gonz wrote:
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/
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