Photo restoration help with photoshop

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joe safari
Jul 14, 2004
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Hello, I have a roll of old film I had developed and all the prints have a magenta tint to them. What would be the easiest way to fix this with Photoshop 7.0
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Dave

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tacitr
Jul 15, 2004
Hello, I have a roll of old film I had developed and all the prints have a magenta tint to them. What would be the easiest way to fix this with Photoshop 7.0

Correcting color casts is one of the things an image editing tool is designed for, and Photoshop has some of the best color correction tools in the business.

For a simple color cast, Image->Adjust->Curves is usually all you need.


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Pjotr Wedersteers
Jul 16, 2004
joe safari wrote:
Hello, I have a roll of old film I had developed and all the prints have a magenta tint to them. What would be the easiest way to fix this with Photoshop 7.0
Thanks
Dave

Use curves or levels and select the middle eyedropper. Click on something that ought to be gray in the photo. That will in most cases provide the color shift you need.

Alternatively you can use the individual colour curves of course, if the gray dropper doesnt do it for you or there are no grays.

If it’s old film I would not be surprised there’s also lack of contrast in the prints ? You can fix that as well, quite easily. But let’s not delve into that if it perhaps isn’t an issue to begin with. Let us know if there’s more you need!
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nomail
Jul 16, 2004
joe safari wrote:

Hello, I have a roll of old film I had developed and all the prints have a magenta tint to them. What would be the easiest way to fix this with Photoshop 7.0

One of the best ways to fix discoloration like that is Levels IMHO. Open Levels and choose the R-channel. Set the sliders to the beginning and the end of the histogram. Do the same with the other two channels. Usually, this fixes both the color cast and the lack of contrast that is also typical for this type of discoloration.


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Steve Moody
Jul 17, 2004
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Hello, I have a roll of old film I had developed and all the prints have a magenta tint to them. What would be the easiest way to fix this with Photoshop 7.0

Take the negatives and prints back to the photolab. They need not process them correctly. They should give you new prints with the magenta corrected. No Photoshop needed.
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Mike Russell
Jul 18, 2004
joe safari wrote:
Hello, I have a roll of old film I had developed and all the prints have a magenta tint to them. What would be the easiest way to fix this with Photoshop 7.0
Thanks
Dave

Dave,

This might do the trick. Convert to Lab mode, and move the black corner of the "a" curve toward the center a bit to get rid of the magenta cast. Then save this curve so you can apply the same adjustment to your other images. Convert back to RGB mode.

Post one of your images to a web page and let us have a crack at it. Or email me a copy and I may add it to the curvemeister misfortunate images tutorial:

http://www.curvemeister.com/tutorials/misfortunate/FadedGlor y.htm

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