Working with a part faded photograph

"BoilerBill" wrote in message

Greetings to all and a Happy Easter!!

Long time no attend – wife been injured and I have had to do the nursing bit…

I am resurrecting some old photographs for a ‘surprise party’ for someone’s 60th birthday.

I have what otherwise would be a good one in colour which has been slightly, but noticeably faded from one side.

Could some kind person explain to me how I can balance this out in CS3 please?

Hard to say without seeing, but here’s one way to tackle this:

1) convert the image to Lab
2) dupe the layer, and use curves to adjust the faded parts, ignoring what happens to the normal (or more normal) parts of the image. In Lab you have separate control over brightness and color and can make very extreme adjustments to any color change, and bump the colors to compensate for fading.
3) add a layer mask to the upper layer, click on it, and use the gradient tool to make the image white for the faded parts, black where you don’t want to change the image.
4) use levels to fine tune the mask, so that the image is uniform.
5) flatten the image, and use curves to add any needed contrast and color to
the overall image.

Upload the image somewhere if you’d like some of us to take a shot at it.

My best wishes for your wife’s complete recovery.
—
Mike Russell – www.curvemeister.com

"BoilerBill" wrote in message

Greetings to all and a Happy Easter!!
I have what otherwise would be a good one in colour which has been slightly, but noticeably faded from one side.
Could some kind person explain to me how I can balance this out in CS3 please?
TIA
Keith J Chesworth AKA BoilerBill

Happy Easter Keith,
RetouchPRO has some excellent Tutorials

How to Repair a Light Leak or Stain:
http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=304

Get the Ring Out, How to repair damage caused by the sun and a picture frame:
http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=245

Enhancing Details In Unevenly Faded Pictures:
http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=65
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"Granny"
Old N Slow N Prefer Quick N Easy

"Mike Russell" wrote in message

"BoilerBill" wrote in message

Greetings to all and a Happy Easter!!

Long time no attend – wife been injured and I have had to do the nursing bit…

I am resurrecting some old photographs for a ‘surprise party’ for someone’s 60th birthday.

I have what otherwise would be a good one in colour which has been slightly, but noticeably faded from one side.

Could some kind person explain to me how I can balance this out in CS3 please?

Hard to say without seeing, but here’s one way to tackle this:
1) convert the image to Lab
2) dupe the layer, and use curves to adjust the faded parts, ignoring what happens to the normal (or more normal) parts of the image. In Lab you have separate control over brightness and color and can make very extreme adjustments to any color change, and bump the colors to compensate for fading.
3) add a layer mask to the upper layer, click on it, and use the gradient tool to make the image white for the faded parts, black where you don’t want to change the image.
4) use levels to fine tune the mask, so that the image is uniform.
5) flatten the image, and use curves to add any needed contrast and color
to the overall image.

Upload the image somewhere if you’d like some of us to take a shot at it.
My best wishes for your wife’s complete recovery.
—
Mike Russell – www.curvemeister.com

Also see Katrin Eisman’s website: http://www.digitalretouch.org/ there is a a How To Do It article taken from her book Restoration and Retouching. Go to First Edition, Sample Chapter in the sidebar.

PDM.

BoilerBill wrote:

Greetings to all and a Happy Easter!!

Long time no attend – wife been injured and I have had to do the nursing bit…

I am resurrecting some old photographs for a ‘surprise party’ for someone’s 60th birthday.

I have what otherwise would be a good one in colour which has been slightly, but noticeably faded from one side.

Could some kind person explain to me how I can balance this out in CS3 please?

TIA
Keith J Chesworth AKA BoilerBill

I have done hundreds of these faded photographs from family albums, and the method I use is to scan the photos in color, an then in Photoshop choose the blue channel record (ctrl-3).

The yellowed image viewed with the blue channel only looks as dark as the the unfaded parts of the image, removing the need to use the burn tool or lassoo areas to darken.

Steps: scan in color, press ctrl+3 to select the blue channel, then Image/Mode/Grayscale to give a monochrome result. adjust levels or curves to taste.

As most photos of this vintage are 120-size contact prints, I usually scan at 600 ppi so I can enlarge them to a uniform 6×4 at about 300 ppi. The old b/w contact papers had remarkable definition capability and a sharp image will go up to 6×4 with ease.

Colin D.

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On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:42:13 -0500, "granny"
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"BoilerBill" wrote in message

Greetings to all and a Happy Easter!!
I have what otherwise would be a good one in colour which has been slightly, but noticeably faded from one side.
Could some kind person explain to me how I can balance this out in CS3 please?
TIA
Keith J Chesworth AKA BoilerBill

Happy Easter Keith,
RetouchPRO has some excellent Tutorials

How to Repair a Light Leak or Stain:
http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=304

Get the Ring Out, How to repair damage caused by the sun and a picture frame:
http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=245

Enhancing Details In Unevenly Faded Pictures:
http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=65

Thanks to all who answered.

Strange thing is that whist that picture was well faded from one side on the screen, when I printed a test picture (A3 – HP Deskjet 1220C) no sign of fading came out…. weird I know the printer is old and as such of poorish quality…but weird…

Now if I could find the Adobe screen calibration tool in CS3, I used in 2………

Keith