http://www.image-restore.co.uk/blog Exploring the techniques of photo restoration and repair Wed, 14 May 2008 13:07:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have here an example of a photo restoration, (removing a person) that if not correctly restored a simple brightness adjustment would reveal some very shoddy work indeed, I will explain. Lets have a look at this photo of some handsome college chaps on a night out with their ... http://www.image-restore.co.uk/blog/index.php/photo-restoration-without-taking-short-cuts/ I have just made some scans of random images from the old album to illustrate some of the points made in my previous post. “Family in the doorway”, is an example of where the scanning light reflects on the silver within the print and glares back as a bluish tint, upper ... http://www.image-restore.co.uk/blog/index.php/images-from-the-old-album/ I can now show you some old photo examples in from this wonderful old album, there are some treasures in here. It contains postcard style prints from photographic studios in the 1920’s, smaller more modern prints on thinner, fragile paper. Some are sepia toned and others just plain black and ... http://www.image-restore.co.uk/blog/index.php/inisde-the-old-album/ Coming up soon... In future blog posts I will be looking into this album. I am going to see what restoration nightmares are in here. I will be talking about how it is not always good to have a silver lining or at least where certain photos are concerned and a ... http://www.image-restore.co.uk/blog/index.php/what-is-in-this-album/ When you get a photo as bad as this, it is seriously tempting to let a quality photo restoration service do it for you. But if you were to tackle this one it might be easiest to airbrush a new back ground or cheat by tightly cropping the photo so ... http://www.image-restore.co.uk/blog/index.php/patience-patience-and-more-patience/ If ever you look into having a photo restoration done, how do you know that you are going to have it done properly? You can look at the site that offers the restoration and look at their example images of "before" and "after" and surely if it looks good ... http://www.image-restore.co.uk/blog/index.php/photo-restoration-telling-the-good-from-the-bad/ Firstly it’s a good idea to de-saturate or grey-scale the image before starting. If you wish to end up with a sepia tone at the end, then we can apply a photo filter to colourise the image when we have finished. Let’s look at what we have to do. Invent a ... http://www.image-restore.co.uk/blog/index.php/photo-restoration-another-example-of-vanishing-point-and-clone/ Ok so have the images restored and they look great but they are a little flat in tone. A great trick for enhancing the blacks and making a great contrast to the highlights is to add a separate adjustment layer for colour balance. Convert your image to RGB In this layer adjust ... http://www.image-restore.co.uk/blog/index.php/photo-restoration-enhancing-the-tones-quick-tip/ Photo Restoration - Tackling Underwater Images You arrived back from the scuba diving holiday of a lifetime and … oh your photos are not what you thought, blue wishy-washy, lacking in punch and clarity. Sadly this is a property of water, it has the unfortunate ability to filter out the ... http://www.image-restore.co.uk/blog/index.php/photo-restortion-underwater-images/ A useful tool in any photo restoration is the vanishing point tool. Good for any perspective based restoration. Examples where to use this tool are for use with buildings or car parks, roads, paving, or windows, etc. In Photoshop CS2 / CS3 it is found under Filter/vanishing point ... http://www.image-restore.co.uk/blog/index.php/photo-restoration-using-vanishing-point-and-clone/ Restoring any photo should be pleasure not a chore. If a water damaged photo should need restoring, perhaps one recovered from a flood or a rainy camping trip then provided it is dry it can be scanned and restored like any other damaged photo. Of course the extent of damage ... http://www.image-restore.co.uk/blog/index.php/photo-restoration-water-damaged-or-flood-damaged-photos/ Instant makeovers, years taken off, digital plastic surgery, its all possible but just how far do you go? Facial restorations involving removing wrinkles, reducing pores, retouching eyes, removing blemishes etc. should be done with discretion. Its very tempting to attack the image with gusto sweeping away all evidence of anything natural ... http://www.image-restore.co.uk/blog/index.php/photo-restoration-retouching-faces/ Photo Restorations are essential “Oh gee, I guess I’d better get this restored it’s looking tatty” - No, no, no! Photo restorations are way more important than that, they are essential, they may seem trivial at the time, but you are preserving an important part of family history, your family will ... http://www.image-restore.co.uk/blog/index.php/photo-restoration-why-do-i-need-a-photo-restoration/ Due to a recent spate of thoughtlessness i managed to delete this post so i have now re-posted it , slightly revised as its written from scratch When carrying out photo restoration and restoring an old photograph quite often pieces of it need to be patched up and healed or cloned. ... http://www.image-restore.co.uk/blog/index.php/photo-restoration-the-importance-of-selection/