In case the software/ memory card fixes
don’t work, you’ll still need to fix the pics
I figured out how to fix the landscape,
but the insect I could only save as a grayscale
because too much of the color info was corrupt
Landscape: Make a selection of the corrupt area
Promote it to a new layer
Choose Adjust>Color> Manual Color Correction
When the dialog box opens, make it small enough so that you can see the underlying image, and turn proof lock on
Pan up to the top of the image in the left hand pane… this is the area closest
to the "good" area. In the left pane of the dialog box, right at the top edge,
drag out a selection— PSP does some fancy averaging math and puts a color in the "Source" box
Click once inside the "Target" box
The Materials palette will open and your cursor will turn into a dropper Now, take the dropper to the live image (*not* the dialog box) and click on the "good" area, just above the point where you made the selection. (You’re telling PSP- Make the color I picked equal to this one…do the math on everything else.)
Look at the composite live image now. I should be pretty close, but you can use the
HSL dials on the bottom to tweak if need be.
Click OK.
You’re going to notice 2 problems– the top half is out of focus (Not PSP’s fault–
looks like you camera might be having a problem?–but we can fix now.) and there
is a thin demarcation line across the photo separating the fixed and original area.
Use Clarify on the background layer to make it match the repaired area. Merge the layers (flatten)
Use the scratch removal tool to get rid of the horizontal line!
Then I did a histogram adjustment on the final… Won’t make an art gallery, but they end up being decent travel photos.
Ta daaaa! I posted a repaired version to
alt.binaries-comp-graphics
Subject line "For Mange"
As to the insect– I split the image to channels and did a similar procedure to the one above–but on each channel
separately. I got the detail back, but the color was still off– it would only be usable as a grayscale image.
Subject line "For Mange2"
Here
"Mange" wrote in message
I recently returned from Thailand and when going through the photos I’d taken on the trip, I realized some of them were damaged. The funny thing is that as long as they are viewed as thumbnails they seem ok, but when opening them they’re cut in half, with the upper part of the photo ok. The lower part of the photo again has a blue translucent color over it. I’ve tried everything I know and come up empty handed, so I’m asking is there anyone out there that can help me fix them, I’d be very thankful.
As the images are fairly large, I’ll post a few of them as links.
http://medlem.spray.se/fishlab/IMG_1287.jpg
http://medlem.spray.se/fishlab/IMG_1355.jpg
