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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: t_creaney on Friday 07 October 05 19:22 BST (UK)
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Here is another picture of my musical GGF, one of my favourite old family pictures. One is my original scanning & the other cleaned up by a friend. I was wondering what he would look like in colour. I don’t have the picture any more so can’t scan it again.
terry
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I've cleaned & adjusted the contrast on one of them. If anyone would like to use it for colouring.
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I was a little too quick of fthe mark and coloured the "cleaned up by a friend" version before noticing that the original was just so much more detailed.
I don't think he could have possibly chosen a worse place to stand for colourising. Those trees could drive one insane.
Here is a very, very rough colouring to show how he probably would have looked in his uniform. He'd have looked rather smart!
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Kiz you beat me to it, what a lovley picture to work with
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Okay, here's my second and final version of this picture.
I think I put a bit too much colour variation in the grass. It doesn't look quite right to me. And those trees were beginning to haunt me, so I did something I try never to do with a picture I'm repairing and simply cropped the majority of them out.
This was my very first try at using Photoshop CS and its wonderful "soft light" layer blending to colourise a whole picture. I'm now an Adobe convert!
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This was my very first try at using Photoshop CS and its wonderful "soft light" layer blending to colourise a whole picture. I'm now an Adobe convert!
Hi Kiz,
I know you love the clone stamp tool, but try and add the three to your armory, I think you'll fall in love with them as well.
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I think with such a vast program as Photoshop CS, I will need to break the habit of a lifetime and go and buy a book on it. Mostly I don't even read the basics in the manuals, and end up using only a tiny percentage of the available options, so I will certainly give these tools a go.
This program looks like it could almost colourise any picture with just a single mouse click!
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Have a look at this tutorial. It will give you a rough idea of what you can do with the patch tool.
http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/TransparentPatchSM.mov
And this link. http://photoshoptips.net/?p=10
also try this link http://dr-photoshop.com/correction.php
And here's another colourising tutorial. http://www.pixeladdiction.com/bb/articles.php?action=viewarticle&artid=22
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Thanks to everybody for all your help, brilliant work.
I managed to borrow a few pictures from distant relatives this week & with a bit of research I found this
http://www.er.band.btinternet.co.uk/history.htm
He is front left this time. One of the pictures I borrowed is a mounted version of the one on that site, in pristine condition.
Thanks again.
terry
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Hi Terry,
I have had to pack it in.
Computer on a go slow.( as usual)
Will post this as "work in progress"
Tomkin.