Re: |GG| What’s wrong with this image

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Paul Furman
Aug 9, 2008
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Lee wrote:
I had a friend who went to Mexico for vacation. They forgot their digital camera and bought a "disposable" digital camera. I’ve attempted in vane to make the picture good. I have no clue what is wrong with it.

I’ve uploaded a small version of it here:
http://www.geocities.com/lawentzel/small.jpg

The picture looks like it has too much cyan. But reducing that, doesn’t resolve the picture problem. I’ve even tried to convert it to a black and white in hopes that it would look reasonable. Doesn’t come close. This picture is complete mess up.

Any help or suggestion on how to fix this picture would be appreciated.
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Come to find out it was a disposable camera which you get the images scanned and dumped to a CD-Rom after they are processed. Also, my friend indicated she had two of these and one of her rolls of film was managed by the machine that develops it, so someones suggestion that the picture was over exposed is very possible. We figured when they (Walgreens drug store) fixed the machine and got the damaged film out of it, they inadvertently exposed the other film with more light. So I suggested she go and raise hell. Thanks everyone.

The red channel is better than the others, green & blue are all messed up, I’m not sure how or why.

I’m cross-posting to alt.graphics.photoshop in the hopes that someone can elaborate.

I used to have a photoshop action that split the channels into 3 layers but it’s been corrupted so I can’t easily tinker more. I can see each step of the action (which no longer plays) but don’t recall how I made it, the steps include duplicating the background, then ‘make a fill layer’ in red, green and blue and a merge layer operation for each… that’s about all I can make of it, somehow it made them translucent so you had 3 layers for each color and could play with those. I used it once to remove blue halo effects and duplicate/simulate the blue channel from a copy of red & green and I suspect this approach may be able to recover that image (somewhat) or at least explain what’s wrong with it.


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