How to Fix Negative Damage

"Chris Stolpe" pounded on the keyboard and wrote:

I damaged a negative by rewinding it the wrong way. So when I scan the image there are greenish bars where the film buckled. It is more pronounced near the film sprocket holes and diminishes twards the center. Any Ideas on how to correct this in photoshop (V7)?

TIA
Chris

If the scratch is not near anything important, i.e., in the sky or something that is the same across a large area, you can use the clone stamp tool. Select a spot near the scratch and then make out the scratch.

Good luch

Brian
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Why not post an example somewhere & let us have a go at it. If we can do it we will tell you how! 8^)

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"Chris Stolpe" pounded on the keyboard and wrote:

I damaged a negative by rewinding it the wrong way. So when I scan the image there are greenish bars where the film buckled. It is more pronounced near the film sprocket holes and diminishes twards the center. Any Ideas on how to correct this in photoshop (V7)?

TIA
Chris

If the scratch is not near anything important, i.e., in the sky or something that is the same across a large area, you can use the clone stamp tool. Select a spot near the scratch and then make out the scratch.
Good luch

Brian
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———————————————————— —————– Brian J. Rueger | Hampton Div. of Fire & Rescue | "Who dares wins" Lt./Paramedic | Fire Communications Officer | Hampton, VA.
B.S. Comm/I/SEL Pilot | MSgt, USAF (Ret.) 49199 | NREMT-P
Check out my home page: http://members.cox.net/brueger
Some of my photography: http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/34185.html "Life’s too short to drink LITE beer!"
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Here is the picture

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cstolpe02@snet.net/album?.dir= /dc09&.src=ph&.tok=phPkWxCBwBlDWYBU

"Dave Croft" wrote in message

Why not post an example somewhere & let us have a go at it. If we can do it we will tell you how! 8^)

—
Dave Croft
Warrington
England
http://community.webshots.com/user/crftdv
"SkyPilot" wrote in message

"Chris Stolpe" pounded on the keyboard and wrote:

I damaged a negative by rewinding it the wrong way. So when I scan the image
there are greenish bars where the film buckled. It is more pronounced near
the film sprocket holes and diminishes twards the center. Any Ideas on how
to correct this in photoshop (V7)?

TIA
Chris

If the scratch is not near anything important, i.e., in the sky or something
that is the same across a large area, you can use the clone stamp tool. Select a spot near the scratch and then make out the scratch.
Good luch

Brian
—
———————————————————— —————– Brian J. Rueger | Hampton Div. of Fire & Rescue | "Who dares wins"
Lt./Paramedic | Fire Communications Officer | Hampton, VA.
B.S. Comm/I/SEL Pilot | MSgt, USAF (Ret.) 49199 | NREMT-P
Check out my home page: http://members.cox.net/brueger
Some of my photography: http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/34185.html "Life’s too short to drink LITE beer!"
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Hi Chris, just 5 minutes using the clone stamp in the damaged areas shows http://community.webshots.com/photo/74826143/311844293ekbHXS More care would give a better job.
You were lucky to have the damage round the edges.
Now lets see what the clever people can manage. 8^)
This is the sort of challenge where the novices like me can learn better ways.– Dave Croft
Warrington
England
http://community.webshots.com/user/crftdv
"Chris Stolpe" wrote in message

Here is the picture

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cstolpe02@snet.net/album?.dir= /dc09&.src=ph&.tok=phPkWxCBwBlDWYBU

"Dave Croft" wrote in message

Why not post an example somewhere & let us have a go at it. If we can do it we will tell you how! 8^)

—
Dave Croft
Warrington
England
http://community.webshots.com/user/crftdv
"SkyPilot" wrote in message

"Chris Stolpe" pounded on the keyboard and wrote:

I damaged a negative by rewinding it the wrong way. So when I scan the image
there are greenish bars where the film buckled. It is more pronounced near
the film sprocket holes and diminishes twards the center. Any Ideas on how
to correct this in photoshop (V7)?

TIA
Chris

If the scratch is not near anything important, i.e., in the sky or something
that is the same across a large area, you can use the clone stamp tool. Select a spot near the scratch and then make out the scratch.
Good luch

Brian
—
———————————————————— —————– Brian J. Rueger | Hampton Div. of Fire & Rescue | "Who dares wins"
Lt./Paramedic | Fire Communications Officer | Hampton, VA.
B.S. Comm/I/SEL Pilot | MSgt, USAF (Ret.) 49199 | NREMT-P
Check out my home page: http://members.cox.net/brueger
Some of my photography: http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/34185.html "Life’s too short to drink LITE beer!"
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Chris Stolpe wrote:

I damaged a negative by rewinding it the wrong way. So when I scan the image there are greenish bars where the film buckled. It is more pronounced near the film sprocket holes and diminishes twards the center. Any Ideas on how to correct this in photoshop (V7)?

TIA
Chris

Chris,

I looked at the pic. IMHO, I think you should crop the hell out of it. The damaged areas do nothing for the drama of the picture. Once you crop, the healing tool will get you out of the mess. Also, consider darkening and blurring the periphery after you heal.

Jan

Chris –

There are several to do this, but be patient as it takes a lot of time. Here’s one way that I learned from the "Mastering Color" DVD (www.photoshopvideos.com)
1. Create a Hue/Saturation Adjustement Layer
2. With the Hue/Saturation dialog box open, under Edit, choose Greens as that’s the general color you want to adjust.
3. Click on the area that you want to adjust – one that has has the most green in the bars. On the bottom, you’ll notice that this sellection produces a color range. On either side are two triangles that allow you to adjust how much of that particular color is affected.
4. From here, you can use the Hue slider to make the necessary adjustments to that particular color without affecting others.

Hi Chris

Here is an example that took approx 1/2 hour.

http://www.zen50587.zen.co.uk/horse.html

I have reduced the original image and I have also cropped a little but the principal is the same. (to save download times)

First I took the bottom half of the pic and used the polygon lasso to trace round the bottom part of the ground up to where the horses horses hoofs are and then used the hue/sat to incearse (not decress) certain colours untill the green lines had faded into the surrounding ground.

It looks weird but then take that selection and then use hue/sat again but this time click on colurize and use the sliders to turn the highlighted part into a "normal colour" that now matches the background.

In a few other parts try using the clone tool but set it to darken and that way it will only clone over the lighter areas.

I then applied the same to the top half of the pic tracing around the horse very carefully.

I hope this makes sense.

Cheers

Ben