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Antique Photos Pt. 1 / Antique Photos pt. 8
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We have one more area we are going to experiment with here just a bit, Uncle Johnny really kind of faded out here as you can tell. I have done some touch up here and I didn't bore you with the process because I think you have seen enough to know pretty much how to proceed. So I went ahead and jumped ahead with a point at which I did most of my major corrections. Now let us take a look at these eyes, see if we can bring those out a little bit and I think the first thing we want to do, make a selection, and then go here to curves, you can improve the contrast on those eyes, that improved the contrast just a bit, but notice the saturation is a little bit off, go up here and reduce the saturation to match the surrounding area, see how it looks, a little better. We will leave that, it is a little bit of an improvement, we won't mess with it too much, it wont look natural. O.k. we have done most of the touch up, by no means have we finished, o.k. Now you see the cracks here, just too much to go through on this tutorial and if you really want to clean it up and get it going good, then you would sit and you would spend hours and hours and hours and hours and hours. We are not going to do that at this point because you have seen enough to where you know how to proceed from here. I mean we haven't done anything down here and as I mentioned before, we pretty much leave that, I mean I am not at all concerned with that stuff. We should probably go on and finish this, we should finish this, this stuff right here we should finish and this, I would maybe give it little more attention to smoothen up some of the cracks here, maybe mess with her dress a little more, take those out, the jacket looks pretty good around the neck area I mean definitely her, so I mean there is more work to do here, and you want to spend the time, then be my guest but we got to move along here at some point. So let us look at this as a whole and doesn't it look a lot better than it did? Take a look at the before and after. After all that work, o.k. before and after. Before and after. Lets do this and doesn't that look better? Before and after. And there is still more work to do, I love looking at before and after when I have done a lot of work on an antique photo. It's a neat thing to see. So there we have it, all right now the next thing we are going to do is we are going to play with our contrast. I don't think we want to brighten the brighter areas any more than they already are. So the way we are going to achieve contrast in this photograph is to leave the white areas the way they are and we are going to reduce the darker areas. And then we will go back and reduce the saturation because any time you darken, you have kind of got to back off on the saturation. Now there are those who say you should go to pure black and white, a gray scale on this image, my dad wants it sepia or sepia. It has got more contrast in it let us keep that, then we will go up here and reduce the saturation, looks a little dark to me, and for the most part, that is a finished product. The only thing left to do is to print it. There you have it, restoring antique photos, a labor of love for sure.
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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