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Before and after restoration


Inkz said:
Looks awesome...

I actually have no idea how you guy's do this lol.
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Everybody does it different. I start out by going through the individual channels of an image to see where the most damage lies.
For a lot of photos, the most damage is usually to the red and green channels leaving the blue in much better condition, and sometimes completely unmarked.

I then duplicate the best looking channel and make it a layer. Once that's done I duplicate both layers, so I have an original and grayscale to work with and a set left untouched.

Move the original layer above the grayscale layer and set the original layer to overlay(sometimes multiply) which should bring back some of the original color without the damage that was in those channels.

I play around with the levels on the grayscale layer to bring back some brightness, then I merge the two layers and run auto color which should get rid of most any overall color tint. I mess around with saturation levels if need be, then I go in manually paint out and correct the remaining problems with a ridiculously simple custom brush I made.

It varies a little from photo to photo, but that's pretty much it. Hope that helps. :)
 
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