Re: Any Suggestions

"bolo" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a work in progress, and have not done too many restorations. I
can clean the images up, but on this one I am not sure which way to go.
I would appreciate any I could get. I am not looking for anyone to do
it, just tell me what I should do. I am concerned about making the top
of the image that has faded match or come close to the lower portion of
the image.

Something tells me that perhaps Granny has a suggestion...... :-) I
sure hope so!

Thanks in advance
bolo
http://www.cadotonic.com/photoshop/vernon.html


I haven't been on here much so sorry for the late response..
It seems as if you already have a couple of excellent working methods
from KatWoman and Colin D.. So I will contribute my 2 cents worth only
because my name was mentioned..

To even out the photo I made 3 copies of the background and ran levels
on them using individual RGB while holding down the Alt key ( Tutorial
here < http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=255 >)..
1st layer observed the little shirt and hat while using the left slider
till a bit of color showed then the right slider till a little color
showed on each channel(RGB)..
2nd layer same except observed face of little boy..
3rd layer same except observed the face of larger boy.
Then selected all and did a Copy Merged, Paste to bring all the layers
together..
converted to B/W using a Russell Brown method found at <
http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html > (Just because it was the
first thing that popped up in my action pallet to convert to B/W)..
Used History brush at multiply at about 45% Opacity to darken hair and
top of photo and using screen to bring out larger boys hand and other
dark areas that needed lightening..
My workflow to this stage is here <
http://img9.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=81807_vernon_and_wilmer_working_cA_122_1070lo.jpg >
(or here http://tinyurl.com/27v8nx if the link above is broken)

The retouch tutorial:
http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=255 ..
could be followed from here on to bring this picture to life..

(another method to convert to B/W would be by extracting the channels
into layers: simply copy the contents of each channel into a layer. This
has a number of advantages over the quick-and-dirty channel mixing or
Hue/Saturation methods: for one thing, you can visually control the
contribution of each channel to the final image simply by adjusting the
opacity of the channels, and by using layer masks, you can select
different mixes for different parts of the image.)

Lots of different ways to do things.. have fun with it
--
"Granny"
Old N Slow N Prefer Quick N Easy


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