Repairing Reticulation in a negative

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jim
Feb 12, 2005
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I am currently trying to restore a seriously reticulated negative (very cracked and rippled) does anybody have any tips on repairing this so far I have been using heal brush and a colour blend but it’s not quite good enough as it’s a portrait any help would be appreciated.

thx
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Brian
Feb 13, 2005
jim wrote:

I am currently trying to restore a seriously reticulated negative (very cracked and rippled) does anybody have any tips on repairing this so far I have been using heal brush and a colour blend but it’s not quite good enough as it’s a portrait any help would be appreciated.

thx
Is there any chance of you posting the scan somewhere for us to take a look at, Jim? I wouldn’t mind having a go at fixing it up myself as a little exercise.

Brian
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Hecate
Feb 13, 2005
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:45:50 -0500, "jim" wrote:

I am currently trying to restore a seriously reticulated negative (very cracked and rippled) does anybody have any tips on repairing this so far I have been using heal brush and a colour blend but it’s not quite good enough as it’s a portrait any help would be appreciated.

thx
Do you do things like this regularly? If so, run, don’t walk to your nearest (internet?) store and buy a copy of Karen Eismann’s Photoshop Restoration and Retouching. Meantime, look at her site on:

www.digitalretouch.org and go and look at www.retouchpro.com

—

Hecate – The Real One

veni, vidi, reliqui
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Mike Russell
Feb 13, 2005
jim wrote:
I am currently trying to restore a seriously reticulated negative (very cracked and rippled) does anybody have any tips on repairing this so far I have been using heal brush and a colour blend but it’s not quite good enough as it’s a portrait any help would be appreciated.

I would start by doing a scan that is designed to record just the reticulation pattern – if the negative is physically cracked it may be easy to do this. Use levels to create a mask that sharply delineates the reticulations.

Then dup your image to a new layer, use the mask as a layer mask, with the cracked areas pure white, and the rest pure black. Start by blurring the image to fill in the reticulated areas and you may see a small miracle. —

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

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