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Boosting the blacks
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 to finish if the photo repair is to add a separate adjustment layer for colour balance. Convert your image to RGB
In this layer adjust the shadows so that they appear tinted slightly with blue. So add around 10-15 blue and 10-15 cyan on the sliders.
Now switch over to the highlights and warm them up, so use the sliders to add around 10-15 red and 10-30 yellow.
Now take a look at the before and after. It jumps out at you now doesn’t it! You can of course tone down this effect by adjusting the opacity of the layer in your layers palette. you can also change the colours to any that suit your tastes. A warm and cool contrasting colour works best.
Subtlety is the key as always when you want to achieve a convincing photo repair.
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