Old Photo Restoration of Skin Colors
Color print from 1972 with badly faded faces, fuzzy facial features, too. Would like the skin tones to look healthy, tried the wrming filter and got jaundice! I am a beginner with PS, need step by step instructions. You forum angels are the best!
I don't use Twitter personally so hopefully a Twitter user here can help you.
Edit: as kerry31 says, use the camera icon in the forum toolbar to upload your image in your next forum post.
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Restoring Old Photos - Actions
I have Photoshop's CS5 on a Mac. Colin Smith has a very nice video on restoring old photos with Channels and then using Content Aware Fill with the Spot Healing Brush.
I have about 140 scanned old photos which I want to improve before putting them in a PhotoBook. Can anyone give me the step by step Actions, with stops
and starts, so I can automate the process of cropping, improving color tone and Spot Healing these photos one after another and speed up the process?
I'd appreciate any help, suggestions, ideas.
MJGrestoring old photos isnt as hard as it seems you will be using mostly the image>adjustment comands when i usually edit i start off with adjusting the levels then i move on to the curves which adjusts your image so different sections are light and others are dark the next think i would do is move on to the hue and saturation this often seems overextreme as you dont what to turn a normal looking photo purple but adding a very slight change can often make a big difference. as an extra affect the photo filter can sometimes add alot to the photo. i often add a slight sepia tinge to my photos which makes them look very cool and vintagy.
the final think i would do is use the healing brush and fix blemishes and if this proves to be annoying as it sometimes can be as it makes certain sections look blurry the clone stamp tool is really cool! all you do is pick a section you want to clone over the top of a blemish then you click alt whilst clicking the area and you then position your mouse over the blemish and it will take whatever area you originally clicked on and place it ontop of the blemish (:
mainly i would sugest using the image>adjustment commands as they are really simple but really go a long way in cleaning up old photos
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Is it posible to restore an old photo that has been partly sun bleeched using Elements 9?
Any tips would be very welcome.This was good practice for me -- I never was any good at colouring black & white photos.
The original photo is a B&W that was hand-coloured. You can tell by looking at the photo left arm and the photo left eye for the places where the colour bled into adjacent areas. Also, there is red remaining in the cheeks, even though the rest of the face is bleached out. This suggests that a retoucher used very finely powdered rouge to colour the cheeks, and those solid particles would not bleach as much as the dyes used for the other colours.
So, hatstead's idea of eliminating the colours and starting fresh with a B&W image is a good one.
The thing I wanted to avoid was having areas of solid featureless colour, so I decided that I'd hand-paint everything and thus get more realistically varied tones. Turned out that the Color Replacement brush worked very well for that --
Duplicate background.
Convert to Black & White: "Portraits", "Contrast" +7.
Rectangular Marquee to select the faded area in the center of the image;
Transform Selection: "Skew" to align with the edges of the faded area.
Save Selection as "Faded Area".
Quick Selection tool: select the clothes.
Save Selection as "Clothes".
Select...Load Selection: "Faded Area" as "New Selection".
Select...Load Selection: "Clothes" as "Subtract from selection" This makes a selection of the faded area on the wall as well as the face and hair.
Select...Refine Edge: Smooth: 0, Feather: 3.1px, Expand: +3%.
Levels Adjustment Layer (masked to that selection): 0, 0.73, 255.
Select...Load Selection: "Clothes" as "New Selection".
Select...Load Selection: "Faded Area" as "Intersect with selection". This makes a selection of the faded area of the clothes.
Select...Refine Edge: Smooth: 0, Feather: 3.1px, Expand: +3%.
Levels Adjustment Layer (masked to the selection): 0, 0.96, 255.
Highlight the 3 layers (B&W, both Levels layers) and use Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E to merge them into a new layer.
Healing Brush tool: "Normal" mode, Source: "Sampled" to clean up lines, etc., left from the Levels adjustment.
Burn and Dodge tools targetting the Midtones at a strength of 4% to paint the folds and even out the tones in the photo left arm.
Burn and Dodge tools (same settings) to strengthen the appearance of the buttons and fabric edge of the center of the sweater.
Burn and Dodge and Spot Healing Brush to fix photo left eye.
Spot Healing Brush to fix blemish on upper lip (photo right), and on photo right upper arm.
Finished B&W image:
Color Replacement Brush, constantly varying the brightness and saturation of the colours to colour the image.
Quick Selection tool to select the child, then Inverse to select the background.
Save Selection as "Wall".
Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, masked to the "Wall" selection, set to "Colorize". Hue: 199, Saturation: 5, Lightness: -26.
Smudge Tool on the H/S mask to modify the edges of the hair.
Blur Tool, Strength: 56%, on the H/S mask to soften all edges:
Selection...Load Selection: "Clothes".
H/S adjustment layer, masked to the "Clothes" selection, with a Saturation: -35 to tone down the colours of the clothes and bring their colours more in line with the face.
Crop slightly to remove the white areas at the edges of the image.
The layers wound up like this:
And the final image:
Besides the practice with using the Color Replacement brush, I learned that using the Smudge and Blur tools on a layer mask is a great way to soften the edges of that mask.
Ken -
How can i restore my old photo stream after installing iOS8???
How can i restore my old photo stream?
because as i install iOS8 my phoyo stream lost.
please help me.
thanks.As of iOS 8, photos are and photo stream are organized a bit differently: http://help.apple.com/iphone/8/#/iphbfeb468fc
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How can I adjust the skin color of only one person in the photo (Elements 11)
How can I adjust the skin color of only one person in the photo (Elements 11)?
Thanks for your help.From your question, I assume you know how to do it for all persons :
Menu : Enhance/Adjust color/adjust color for skin tones
So what you have to do is to do the color correction on a layer copy. Concentrate on the person to enhance and ignore the rest of the picture.
When you are satisfied, add a mask to the layer copy and fill it with black.
Set your foreground color to white
In the layer palette, click on the mask icon on the right of the layer icon.
Then use a brush to paint white on the skin of the person to reveal the correction. -
I know there are tons of information out there in Google.
Frankly having to sift through all of that can be very tiedious as some joe blow thinks he has the right method or whatever and in truth there are better ways to do it.
So Photoshop gurus what are some tips and tricks for restoring old photos? The photos I am attempting to restore are more than anything washed out more so than anything else.
I have attempted to adjust things in Camera Raw and tried different filters etc and have improved the photo some but it still needs work.
Thanks in advance for any advice =>You didn't say anything about software but if you have access to photoshop, you could also try Julieanne Kost. I love her simple straight forward explainations. I may have to replay some but I never wonder which tool or key she is talking about. Here are a couple of links to her tutorials.
Restoration http://www.docstoc.com/docs/14731537/Adobe-Photoshop-Photo-restoration-techniques
Some really great videos of photoshop techniques.http://jkost.com/photoshop.html
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restored iphone from icloud so I could have all my old photos but now I cannot get it to restore or sync with itunes either by cable or by wifi. I have tried with automatic download off/on, I have had red circles, hours of syncing, nothing, help!!
Seems to be a common issue in discussions. Try this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1538
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I had a new I phone and I turned on iCloud and photostream , then only some photos from my old iPhone that I thought it was stored to my iCloud appeared in my new iPhone not all the old photos what can I do to restore my photos
Can you just back-up the old phone to iTunes and restore it from there?
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How can I restore my old photos after a recovery if not backed up through itunes or icloud
Here's the story. I dropped my phone in a swimming pool. It did not start at first. I layed the phone in a bag of uncooked rice and after 5 days it seemed like it was going to startup again. However something was wrong with teh battery so we ordered a new battery. The phone started up with the new battery but it wanted to go into that recovery mode. I did go through the backup procedure in iTunes and then recovery. The phone is now starting up fine but it is blank from apps and photos like a new phone. I did not have any photos backed up over iCloud before this happened. However shouldn't the photos still be on teh memory card of the phone? I thought the recovery process just resets the phone to factory standard, not deleting my photos. How can I get my old photos out of the phone? They are not in the DCIM when I log on through Windows explorer as well.
What a crappy design. This is where Android is so much better. It seems to me like you have no control over your iPhone. It does whatever Apple has designed it to do without asking you first. On Android you can actually go in see all folders, document files, photo files etc and you have so much more control of everything. Apple s..cks!
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Hi
I have this really old photo that I want to restore the colors on. The strange yellow square that is taking over most of the photo is what was exposed for decades in the same picture frame.
I know the basics on using color adjustment layers with hue sand saturation, Just wanted to get some tips on how some other would tackle the project?
NOTE: The "reddish" background around the edges appears to be the original color of the photo, is there anyway to "revert" the yellow back to that color using some kind of eyedropping tool adjustment?
Finally removing the red colorcast using the white shirt should get the colors back to normal?
Original PSD file... www.grahamfleming.ca/pamcamble.jpgHow much texture do you see when you just look at the image? If it is minimal, that's what the camera will see, which is why I suggested it.
To get a good photo, try to find a place to lay the print down flat in diffuse yet reasonably bright white light, hold the camera over it and try to fill the frame with it while avoiding reflections, and shoot it with a low ISO so that the camera doesn't add unacceptable noise. The floor of a room with windows in it where a fair bit of light comes in from the outside is a possibility. Diffuse light coming from all directions will help minimize highlights and shadows on the bits of the texture.
Another possibility is to scan it twice, once 180 degrees rotated from the other scan (i.e., so the light comes from two different directions), then (assuming the scan is quite accurate) combine the images digitally to help cancel out the shadows and highlights from the texture. If you want to try that, feel free to post the two scans here and I'll be happy to see whether there's hope for that technique.
I used the Crop Tool in Photoshop to remove the border, then Curves and other functions such as Color Balance to get the tones to look more natural.
-Noel -
How can I retrieve old Photo Stream photos from a lost iPhoto Library?
My laptop was stolen and with it an external drive that had my iPhoto library. I had an old backup and when I opened the backup and turned on Photo Stream, I saw all my old photos appear again! After a short while, it was removing old photos from the photostream and replacing them with newer ones. I'm now missing months of Photo Stream photos that I really want back. I tried creating a new library and enabling Photo Stream to try to capture those missing images, but I am not able to see anything older than Oct. I could really use some help if somebody knows a way to get those memories back...
Thanks
-RobI had an old backup
What kind of backup? Do you have a Time Machine Backup of your complete system from the time before the laptop was stolen?
To restore the Photo Stream images from that time you need to restore the folder
your home folder /Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/Assets
This folder contains the PhotoStream pictures that were part of the PhotoStream at that time.
To restore this folder from TimeMachine, open a Finder window showing this folder, make it the active window, and then enter TimeMachine. Go back in time in the TimeTunnel, till you see the correct date. Don't restore to the library but to a folder on the Desktop.
Regards
Léonie -
I had an iPod touch, but it was stolen or lost. Now that I have a new one with a new Apple ID, is there someway I can access and download all my old photos and data from my old Apple ID to my new device? I still remember my old Apple ID and password.
Restopre from backup
To restore from backup see:
iOS: How to back up
If you restore from iCloud backup the apps will be automatically downloaded. If you restore from iTunes backup the apps and music have to be in the iTunes library since synced media like apps and music are not included in the backup of the iOS device that iTunes makes.
You can redownload most iTunes purchases by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
Also,
- If you used PhotoStream then try getting them from your PhotoStream. See that topic of:
iOS: Importing personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer -
Need help editing scanned images of old photo album pages PSE 9
Before I begin this project, I thought I'd get some advice from someone who has undertaken a similar project. I have three photo albums from the 50's and 60's. The albums were made by my mother who mounted the photos (mostly black and white but some color photos) on construction paper (of various colors) using the corner holders or glue. She hand cut the construction paper so each page is not a perfect rectangle ( about 11" tall, 8.5" wide). The pages were punched and put into a three-ring binder.
She added text to the edge of the photo and/or to the construction paper. Each page contains one to 6 photos and text. Each album has about 120 pages. I want to keep the notes on the construction paper so I scanned each page into a TIF files, 400 dpi and stored the images in a separate folder for each volume.
I use (poorly) PSE 9. I see it has a auto straighten/crop feature that can be used one photo at a time. I tried the divide scanned images function and that did not fully separate all images on the page and also created an image for stray objects on the page such as an unused corner holder. (I know those things have a better name but it escapes me now.)
I plan to create photo books for my siblings. I am now thinking of cropping the image of each page (rather than each photo on the page) into a uniform size, adjusting levels, contrast and sharpness, saving this image to a JPEG file, and using these edited JPEG images to create the photo book. Since each page was hand-cut, there will areas of white where one page was torn or cut smaller than another page. Some pages will have blanks where old photos have been lost leaving behind only the corner things. It won't be perfect but it will be an image of the album as it exists today.
My questions are:
The pages are about 11 by 8.5. Does anyone know a photo service that prints photo albums in a portrait layout in this size? I have been unable to find one; it looks like most online photo books are wider rather than taller.
Let's assume I use a company such as Shutterfly that offers a 12x12 format. I assume it would be better to edit the images in PSE9 rather than any online software. What should I do to keep the proportions in the current images true but make the image fit a 12x12 page, for example?
IS there any other editing software anyone can recommend that will speed this up, hopefully a software that would take multiple photos at one time, auto-straighten and auto crop to a set size? And also auto contrast/level/sharp. If I could use such auto features on these images and then go back and adjust the photos that did not play well with the auto features, that would save me time.
I appreciate anyone's input. I dread doing this but we have one set of photos and 5 siblings so it has to be done. Thanks!Hi,
Mentioning your issues one by one:
1) PSE does not have any portrait Photobook available, so your thought was the best way to get the work done is by choosing the 12x12 - shutterfly one.
2) PSe does a good job of editing the images. You can set your images of approx. 11x8 size to fit to the 12x12 page. Just choose a one photo page Layout for the page and then right click on the image to " Fit photo in the frame".
3) If more edits are required for the image, you can easily go to Advanced mode and edit your photos, layouts, move the frames, images or add effects to the images.
4) Photo book creation sure takes time. because, you want it to be the best. I am sure PSE would help you best here.
Go ahead and create you photobook. Inc ase you get stuck somewhere, you can always post here to get help!
Cheers,
Swarnima -
dear all,
please help. I have some how lost my old photos that were on my photo stream. I have tried an expensive app that did not work. the photos were over 18 months old and I cant find how to increase the album past 18 months. there is one photo i am desperate to get back as it is of our cat that was run over and it is the only nice photo i have of him!
I have tried to restore album via the iphoto setting and checked to make sure that i am on a setting where my photos go direct into one place. many, many thanks, DIf you are trying to restore photos from photo stream on iCloud, make sure you are signed into iCloud on your device and then connect to a WiFi connection and everything that you have available on iCloud will be populated back to your device. You can only get photos or any other kind of information that you have available on iCloud through a WiFi connection. Cellular data will not do the trick. Hope this helps your problems and Good Luck TO YOU !!
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Iphoto on yosemite crashes when trying to update old photo library
Hi there,
I have a Imac 24" from 2008 with 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB memory.
I just upgraded to Yosemite 10.10.1
The iphoto library was old so I downloaded the iphoto library upgrader as instructed and ran it on Iphoto Library (made a backup of the library first)
The upgrader said it would take a while to modify the library which is 38GB big but it completed within a minute or so (that was the first sign of trouble).
When launching Iphoto it opens, says the library needs to be upgraded and then immediately crashes.
We uninstalled and reinstalled Iphoto and the library upgrader, restored the iphoto library backup and the same thing happens again.
Any ideas?
Thank you.Iphoto runs if we remove the iphoto library and restart the application. At that point we can create a new library but we can't see our old photos or import them
It is a very good sign, that iPhoto can run with a new library.
That iPhoto is still crashing on your main library can mean two things - either the library has a corruption, or it contains image files, that cannot be processed.
Try, if you can rebuild your iPhoto library with iPhoto Library Manager. You can download it here:
http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ (the free trial version will suffice for this). It will create a copy of your library and relink the original files. Your original library will remain untouched. But rebuilding with iPhoto Library manager will not be able to save projects, like books, calendars, slideshows.
Read the help pages on the iPhoto Library Manager site:
Rebuilding a corrupted iPhoto library
And the full Help: http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/Help/table%20of%20contents.html
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