small spots retouching

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Marsupilami
Dec 16, 2004
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I got a problem retouching an old black and white photo
It stained with plenty of small spots (not really spots but like grey paper fibers)
I got the Katherin Eismann book in front of me
(witch is just been translated in French- Halleluya-Hossanna!!!) And just no solution from this kind of stains that covers ALL the photo and not regularly.

No way to use stamp tool for it will be too visible to clone all the details in the face and hands
No way to use channels (or channel mixer) as they contain stains the same way
No way to use the despekle or medain filters as the photo is not that sharp anyway
No way to select the stains (E.g. color range) as the same grey can be found elsewhere in the image.

No way, No way
What’s the way?
Thank you to all…

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Houba houba.
Marsu.
"Le num
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TinyJohnsonn
Dec 16, 2004
send the pic to me

http://community.webtv.net/TinyJohnsonnnnn/MyComputer
http://community.webtv.net/TinyJohnsonnnn/recentpics
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Corey
Dec 16, 2004
Can you post the image where we can look at it? Do you have a version of Photoshop with the Healing Brush? How about making a copy of the layer, inverting it (Image > Adjust > Invert) and then blending it with the original?

Peadge 🙂

"Marsupilami" wrote in message
I got a problem retouching an old black and white photo
It stained with plenty of small spots (not really spots but like grey
paper
fibers)
I got the Katherin Eismann book in front of me
(witch is just been translated in French- Halleluya-Hossanna!!!) And just no solution from this kind of stains that covers ALL the photo
and
not regularly.

No way to use stamp tool for it will be too visible to clone all the
details
in the face and hands
No way to use channels (or channel mixer) as they contain stains the same way
No way to use the despekle or medain filters as the photo is not that
sharp
anyway
No way to select the stains (E.g. color range) as the same grey can be
found
elsewhere in the image.

No way, No way
What’s the way?
Thank you to all…

—
+++++++++++
Houba houba.
Marsu.
"Le num
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Marsupilami
Dec 16, 2004
Peadge wrote:
Can you post the image where we can look at it? Do you have a version of Photoshop with the Healing Brush? How about making a copy of the layer, inverting it (Image > Adjust > Invert) and then blending it with the original?

Peadge 🙂

For the moment I cannot send any image
I just got PS6 with no healing brush nor patch tool

but I’ll try your method, I’ll be back tomorrow for feedback….

thanks..

PS:Is Branko still alive?

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Houba houba.
Marsu.
"Le num
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Corey
Dec 18, 2004
Below is a link to see what I was able to do with the image. I explain the details below the image. Mouse over the image to see the "repair."

http://home.comcast.net/~oneravenlunatic/photo_repair.htm

Peadge 🙂

—– Original Message —–
From: "Sandrine Bascouert"
To: "Peadge"
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: small spots retouching

Peadge wrote:
Can you post the image where we can look at it? Do you have a version of Photoshop with the Healing Brush? How about making a copy of the layer, inverting it (Image > Adjust > Invert) and then blending it with the original?

Sorry for posting to you only
but I made a message that seems to swim away in the tubes of the net disapeared…
And I got no place to put my images yet…
so forgive me for crash you mail box with it…
your suggestion on inverting and blending was not efficient on my image as I used it for another picture where it worked (I’ve not even think of it!)
thank you for caring,
answer to the group (if you want to)

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Houba houba.
Marsu.
"Le num
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Marsupilami
Dec 18, 2004
answer to the group (if you want to)

Thanks a lot… I’ll try…
I wanted to make a sort of mask but it seems to be impossible 😉

thank you again.
and forgive me for my UNdecent english

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Houba houba.
Marsu.
"Le num
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Corey
Dec 19, 2004
"Marsupilami" wrote in message
answer to the group (if you want to)

Thanks a lot… I’ll try…
I wanted to make a sort of mask but it seems to be impossible 😉
thank you again.
and forgive me for my UNdecent english

Your English is fine. I have great appreciation for people who know multiple languages!

Your job will probably be a tedious one, so have patience.

Peadge 🙂
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Marsupilami
Dec 20, 2004
Your English is fine. I have great appreciation for people who know multiple languages!

Your job will probably be a tedious one, so have patience.
Peadge 🙂

Thanks for my english, proud to have learnt a bit with brits and americans for you don’t know how they teach english in France. (of course absolutely the same way they teach french in USofA and GB) 😉

I finished my image just yesterday and I used a bit of your techniques and a bit of my own (make these median and gaussian blur in a new copy and use the "advanced fusion" to blend it with the "under" layer. cause I hate to "destruct" my layers.
Now I got a new image to restore, very faded, scratched all over COMPLETELY out of focus, taken in the 50’s in Vietnam.
so maybe I will have to ask for your help again, 😉
If you please tell me is there a service (free?) that allow you to put temporarly
images on a place to link , just like the way that "tinyURL" redirect a site with a simplier adress, a way to show you the images as if they were enclosures
in a mail (is it the right term?).
Thanks again

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Houba houba.
Marsu.
"Le num
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Marsupilami
Dec 21, 2004
Your English is fine. I have great appreciation for people who know multiple languages!

Your job will probably be a tedious one, so have patience.
Peadge 🙂

Thanks for my english, proud to have learnt a bit with brits and americans for you don’t know how they teach english in France. (of course absolutely the same way they teach french in USofA and GB)

I finished my image just yesterday and I used a bit of your techniques and a bit of my own (make these median and gaussian blur in a new copy and used a mask cause I hate to "destruct" my layers.) Now I got a new image to restore, very faded, scratched all over COMPLETELY out of focus, taken in the 50’s in Vietnam.
so maybe I will have to ask for your help again,
If you please tell me is there a service (free?) that allow you to put temporarly
images on a place to link , just like the way that "tinyURL" redirect a site with a simplier adress, a way to show you the images as if they were enclosures
in a mail (is it the right term?).
Thanks again

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Houba houba.
Marsu.
"Le num

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