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Restoring Old Photos

The Black Oil · 2007-06-11 13:12:20

Hey all, Just curious of anyone has any good tips about restoring old shots. We dug out some old one's from my uncle's 50th and scanned them into the computer. Then I scanned them into the PC and mostly just messed with the levels as the shots were quite faded or had bits of sellotape on them. Here's an example:…

11-06-2007 1:12pm

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The Black Oil

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Hey all,

Just curious of anyone has any good tips about restoring old shots. We dug out some old one's from my uncle's 50th and scanned them into the computer. Then I scanned them into the PC and mostly just messed with the levels as the shots were quite faded or had bits of sellotape on them. Here's an example:
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m236/basementa/FADED.jpg

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m236/basementa/PIC9.jpg

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#2 11-06-2007 4:09pm

5uspect

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You could do a bit of noise correction, some selective levels?curves correction to particularly faded areas (tho it doesn't seem bad) and a good bit of sharpening.
You've done the biggest bit tho and got the colour channels back to giving something decent.

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#3 11-06-2007 4:18pm

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Nice bit of work.

There was another thread recently too: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055098124

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#4 13-06-2007 3:18pm

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Hi there,

Yep definitely one of the quickest ways to improve an older picture with Photoshop is to use the Levels command. It can dramatically change the contrast immediately. For the little white dots, if you have Photoshop CS2, the spot healing brush is amazing.

All the best,

Jennifer

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