Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration Tutorials
Antique Photos Pt. 1 / Antique Photos pt. 2
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Alright the next thing we are going to do on this photograph is we are going to do a sweep and take care of the larger areas of degradation and then we will work on the small things, the tedious small corrections around the faces and the upper body, the upper torsos of the subjects in the photograph to really clean it up. One thing that I want to point out to you, maybe make a suggestion, this is a personal opinion, but I think there is a case to be made for, when you get down in to here around the feet at the bottom of the photograph, that there is a case to be made for leaving some of the artifacts, some of the degradation. The reason I say that is of course now up here where the faces are and the upper torso of the bodies, you really want to clean this up as good as you possibly can and this is where you want to concentrate your attention when you are doing the tedious work. When you get down here, you leave the degradation for two reasons, number one, this is not where people are going to be looking, and I think also that if you leave some of the antique photo degradation around the feet in the bottom of the photographs, it's kind of like the scratches in fine leather, it really gives the antique photo an air of authenticity, it gives it a character, a flavor that I think is useful. Now I want to direct your attention over here to the navigator, I'm sure you saw me moving the photograph around and this is a very handy device to navigate around the photograph, so we are going to use this quite a bit in this particular process. We are going to sweep across, come down, sweep across, come down, sweep across and do a complete sweep of the photograph and take care of larger areas of degradation first. Now also we are going to point out to you the zoom tool; we can zoom out and take a look at the results of our work. Zoom in to get real tight and we have got the pixellation, we will see a lot of that along way away. What we want is basically a 100% magnification. We will come all the way over here, and then we are just going to start to go over here. Right, now one of the great, giant, huge improvements in Photoshop 7, and you do not have this on earlier versions, is the healing brush and patch tool. Now the patch tool I have not showed you yet; I have not used it too much. It is a very handy device when you have large areas of a photograph to correct. It is a huge time saver and you simply make a selection, you drag around and make a selection and then drag it to a clean portion of the image that you want to duplicate and look what happens. Let us go down on the right here, there is a big old gash, you'd be forever clicking and moving doing the a-pack tool or the clone tool; it is a lot easier to make a selection, drag it to a cleaner area on the image and let go and automatically it takes care of itself. All the reason to upgrade from whatever version of Photoshop you are using to version 7 and version CS. See how that cleaned up? Be sure that when you are using this, you are dragging it to an area that is clean and that you want to see replaced because see this little doodad right here on the image? It is an exact duplicate, now we will go back and we will correct that. You know it is not that big a deal in this particular photograph. But just be aware that wherever you drag it to, it is going to be replaced in this area. This patch tool is a great time-saver when you are doing the restoration for the antique photos.
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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