Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:13 pm   Reply with quote         

Granulated wrote:

Man, I'm glad this wasn't a contest source. lol

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Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:24 pm   Reply with quote         

badcop wrote:

Adjusted the curves and reduced the brightness...

Will make a tutorial if there's enough interest.

that's the filter i'm looking for!!

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Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:43 pm   Reply with quote         

When I get more time, I'd like to add more color to it. More yard-work to do now.

Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:58 pm   Reply with quote         

I also upped resolution,played with auto correct then Shadow/highlight,manual contrast, Vibrance.
Made a duplicate of layer set to soft light then filter highpass.
merged those layers then used a little unsharp mask.

I will try to do patch work on flaws later

Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:49 am   Reply with quote         

I've done thousands of these. In this method, I use the levels feature and adjust reds blues and greens to conform to the levels waveform better, eyeballing what looks good. Then, when I come close, I hit okay and then hit auto color to see if PS can improve on what I did, which sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.
Tell the photographer to use a flash next time.

Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:51 am   Reply with quote         

Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:47 am   Reply with quote         

Like they said - get a bigger better scan - 300 dpi, 16-bit color if possible.

Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:56 am   Reply with quote         

Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:58 am   Reply with quote         

I am going to go ahead and say it is not possible for me to get a bigger scan at this juncture.



Thanks though everyone for all the tips and work. You guys are great.

Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:04 am   Reply with quote         

bsoholic wrote:

I am going to go ahead and say it is not possible for me to get a bigger scan at this juncture.



Thanks though everyone for all the tips and work. You guys are great.

watch CSI, they seem to have a bigger bag of tricks, you can probably zoom in on the reflection in great-grandma's glasses and see the face of the photographer

Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:08 am   Reply with quote         

vokaris wrote:

bsoholic wrote:

I am going to go ahead and say it is not possible for me to get a bigger scan at this juncture.



Thanks though everyone for all the tips and work. You guys are great.

watch CSI, they seem to have a bigger bag of tricks, you can probably zoom in on the reflection in great-grandma's glasses and see the face of the photographer

Once you do that, you can look in the reflection of the lens, and most likely come up with a higher res image than you began with. Idk why I didn't think of that sooner.

Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:07 pm   Reply with quote         

vokaris wrote:

Like they said - get a bigger better scan - 300 dpi, 16-bit color if possible.

Well done, vokaris

Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:12 pm   Reply with quote         

Howdy BS! Great shot to have in your family archives! Cool!

Well, some of you have done better at this, but I wanted to see what could be done at my end. (good practice trying to do this on a wee-resolution file like this!)

I think your family found my retouching amusing, though... just look at their faces. They're CRACKING UP!!

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Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:02 am   Reply with quote         

This took a while to fix up, but here you go!!!