Getting the Grey Out of Old Graphics

[maggie2]

Hi,

I have many old graphics that I'd like to use, however, many of them have grey in them that I'd like to remove. Here's an example:
You can see the grey in the face and the arms and on the umbrella. Is there a way to get rid of this that's fairly simple?

Thanks so much for any help you can give.
Marg

 

[iDad]

adding a duplicate layer and put it in linear light mode may help but it may lose the colors your looking to keep. It wouldn't hurt to try that

 

[$1r_M4x1mu$]

Hi maggie2

the asiest way will be painting over the grey scale parts, because trying to get rid of the grey area via clone stamp, content aware fill or any other pixel replacement tool will result in a unusable image. not mentioning the time spent.

- create an empty layer on top set the blending mode to soft light.
- use the eyedroper tool to sample colors from the near matching color area
- in the new created layer use a soft brush whit an 10-25% opacity, and start painting over the grey area in order to change the grey to a more acceptable colored look

- Optional you can apply a surface blur (FILTER>BLUR>SURFACE BLUR), play whit radius and threshold until you get something you like, this will make the color in the image blend a lil better and also get rid of some darken grey areas.

* There's another methods but ti will make use of some expensive tools and filters like color FX Pro or viveza 2 or Topaz vivacity just to mention some of them.

I will strongly recommend painting over dark areas and playing whit layer blending

Good Luck.

 

[Hoogle]

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only a quick job but these are the steps I took
1 create new layer paint over the umbrella in the new layer in a solid colour change layer blending style to colour adjust opacity to liking
well thats basically it for all the main colours repeat step 1 then at the end play with levels/vibrance hue saturation etc
I know it is not a 1 click solution but this took less than 5 mins and you can afford to be very rough when painting as the colour blending mode will sort of do the edges automatically hope this helps

 

[maggie2]

Thanks for all the help.
Marg