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Clean up a photo


jerseyboy

jerseyboy

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Hello,

Can any kind member suggest how I can clean up the corners of this photo?

It is a B&W photo that I have scanned at 600 dpi and have in PS6.

Many thanks.
 

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Welcome to PSG...

And you may have to wait a little bit for other members to log on, time differences and that lol. But there are some amazing guy's here that know a lot about restoring damaged photos.

Inkz
 
I second what Inkz stated. I myself am just now getting into some restorations, so I'm not much help.

Is this as large of a file as you have?
 
Looks pretty dern good to me!! Inkz, you've been holding out! (I've seen some of your restorations, I knew you could do it!)
 
My suggestion would be on the right side, you can do a mix of clone stamping and healing brush to get rid of the nastiness.
The left side, there's just no extra information on what ever that toy is that can be recovered. I would suggest cloning over that
area as well to blend it in with the sheet and just recreating the small portion of the leg that was covered by the toy.
 
@IamSam my full size image is 2700 x 2150 pixels I have just clipped the bottom half in a greatly reduced resolution here.
@Inkz I have just looked at Silver Efex Pro 2 and yes it seems to have great potential (I am glad that I scanned the B&W image in color mode!)
@Fatboy73 Thanks for the interesting suggestion.
 
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IamSam said:
Looks pretty dern good to me!! Inkz, you've been holding out! (I've seen some of your restorations, I knew you could do it!)
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I sneaked under the radar, cloak & dagger style :bustagut:

Not sure what the object is on the right side corner, looks like a bunny. Going to try and clean it up a little more.
 
Hey,

Here is my try to clean the image :) First made the whole image B&W and then used clone stamp tool to clean it. Wasn't sure what was going on in the foot area and decided to color it. Also reduced some noise and played with curves etc, check the psd below! :P

Here is the psd so you can see some techniques i use when restoring a photo, hope it helps!
View attachment teddyedit2.psd

teddy2.jpg
 
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AleksiJS said:
Hey,

Here is my try to clean the image :) First made the whole image B&W and then used clone stamp tool to clean it. Wasn't sure what was going on in the foot area and decided to color it. Also reduced some noise and played with curves etc, check the psd below! :P

Here is the psd so you can see some techniques i use when restoring a photo, hope it helps!
View attachment 37355
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Wow, Many thanks your contribution just blew me away. I have looked at the PSD in amazement and in great admiration. I feel like asking you if you would accept the original image and do the restoration - but that I suppose would be cheating :rolleyes:
 
No problem :) Yea, it's better to do it yourself and learn by doing. You never learn if you don't try. Hope the .psd helps you get the main idea of what i was doing to the photo and you can follow those things. Just keep practicing!

Here you can get the idea of clone stamp tool which is the most important tool restoring this kind of stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haIY-EULKmg 1:35 ->

The idea is that it duplicates the brush area with the target/selected area. So in this case, select clear non damaged area (which style is close to the damaged area (same color)) and then start brushing over the damaged area. Hope this makes any sense :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EuNslW4NDE 0:37 ->

You can see the + sign moving and showing which area it is duplicating.
(First video 3:22)

I have Wacom tablet so it makes the brushing a lot easier and faster, because of the pressure sensitivity. The harder you press the harder the brush will be. If you are planning to do more stuff like this i highly recommend getting one:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wacom-Bambo...9311&sr=8-2&keywords=Wacom+Bamboo+Pen+&+Touch


PS. IF you want i can do it for some $$, but i suggest to do it yourself with these free little tips i gave ;)
 
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AleksiJS said:
No problem :) Yea, it's better to do it yourself and learn by doing. You never learn if you don't try. Hope the .psd helps you get the main idea of what i was doing to the photo and you can follow those things. Just keep practicing!
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Thanks for those tips. I have viewed the videos on Youtube and am now looking around for my old Wacom tablet that I had a few years back and never really got on with. I do not find where you reconstructed the little girl's right leg in the PSD but I rather fear that things like that are not for the beginner but rather for a seasoned pro which I suspect you may be :rolleyes:
 
Hey, the reason why you can't find own layer for the leg is because it was all done with clone stamp tool. I duplicated the dark area from her other leg :) After i had that shape i placed some contrast/brightness/darkness effect on it to make it look more realistic. You can see those layers there if you click the leg area. It just need practicing to use that tool, but after you get the idea it is pretty simple thing to do!
 
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