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Antique Photos Pt. 1 / Antique Photos pt. 1
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Let us start now with the part of the tutorial that I have been waiting for ever since we started this project and that is a labor of love for me and that is repairing old photographs. And I hope it becomes that for you, too. This is really the fun for me in Photoshop and I am hoping that it will be for you, because this is the kind of thing that really means something to people, not that the other the stuff doesn't. But when you go into an old photograph like this and these people are all long dead and you know the people that are left that remember these folks, when you get an old photograph like this, you take all the tears out of it, and repair all the stains and take out all the scratches and enhance it and make it look like the day it was taken. Then you frame it; you present it as a gift on a holiday or a birthday to a grandmother or grandfather, and you look at the emotion in their eyes and the tears that come to their eyes when you give this to them, and it makes all that worth it. This is a labor of love, that is about the best way I know to describe it. But getting to the technical end of things, this photograph was taken in about 1915, now do believe, 1918, somewhere in there. It is a photograph of my paternal grandfather, who is here, and my grandmother, who I knew very well. This is the extended family; I don't know who these folks are or anything, but this is a photograph that meant a great deal to my dad. When I fixed it up and presented it to him, it was a very, very emotional time. So what we are going to do is we are going to zoom in on my Grandma Hawkins and Uncle Johnny and let's bring it a little tighter, and let us take a look at what we have to deal with. Of course, you can obviously see all the scratches. One of the reasons I chose this photograph is that it has got everything wrong with it that can be wrong with an image: Stains, it has got faded dark areas, it has got scratches, it's got just everything you can imagine. Quite a bit to be done with this photograph. But the first thing that you want to do when you are approaching one of these projects is, the first repairs that you want to make are global repairs. Do the things that affect the entire photograph and improve the entire photograph first so that you can then concentrate on those other areas and it makes the detail of photograph repair that much easier. So what we are going to do is try to do something with these scratches. One of the major tools we use for that is the dust and scratch filter and let us just demonstrate how it works, and yes we are degrading our image, but that is okay. I am just showing you how this thing works, and yes we are turning our image up, that is okay, it looks like a demonstration. See how it removes those scratches, and yes you are correct, the battle you fight is how to remove the scratches without also degrading your image, and I am going to show you how to do that. So we do not apply that now. The thing you want to do, if you understand the concept in audiotape of Dolby noise reduction and what the basic concepts of that are, it works on a concept of emphasis and then deemphasis and that is basically what we are going to do with this image. What we are going to do is accentuate the sharpness and the contrast in the image and then we are going to invoke the dust and scratch filter to get rid of the scratches and then bring the contrast down to a level that should be normal. So let us go to our unsharp mask, and yes you can see where those scratches are now worse than they were and that is okay. We are going to get rid of those later. But you also see where the image is being emphasized quite a bit and sharpened; it's contrasted and it is really bringing out the detail on the eyes, on the hair, all those places that we want to boost. So we are going to go ahead and keep that and then we are also going to give this just a little bit more contrast, We are going to put a little bit of an S curve on this image, not much, just enough to bring out the hair; this really does a lot for the hair. We are going to keep that and we are emphasizing the sharpness and contrast in the image. And now we are going to put in the dust and scratch filter and watch what happens. You've got to tweak it; you've just got to play with it until it looks right. That is before and after. So let us go down to zero threshold. Look at that, before and after. And we go to two pixels, well one and a half or maybe that is where we need to be, that seems to be striking the best balance. And we save that, then we go back out and we take a look at before and after. So you start your corrections with the dust and scratch filter, if you have dust and scratches, and do it globally so that when you start working on smaller portions of your image, it becomes a lot easier and you have less work to do.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration |
| Author: | Phil Hawkins |
| SKU: | 33473 |
| ISBN: | 1932072705 |
| Release Date: | 2004-01-27 |
| Duration: | 4.5 hrs / 77 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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