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Help postprocessing blurry images
Apr 29, 2012 12:27:13 #
An old friend of mine send me some printed pictures and asked me to try and "do something" to make them better. Well I was his best man back in 1964 so I could not say no. As I discovered, the pictures have a combination of issues. The issues include color fading over time, and it appears that at some point they were either scanned on dirty glass or poorly printed. I tried to remove what appeared to be dust or noise using all the tips and techniques I could find on the net. Using dust and noise filters helped a little but sharpening and unsharp mask make it worse because sharpening makes the problem worse. Help if you can fix please do so or any other ideas are welcome
Bob in a cut down uniform with his dad in 1943
MCPO Bob Bessey and wife Jean Navy birthday 1973
Bob and Jean Wedding day October 1962
Apr 29, 2012 13:44:37 #
Unblurring a .jpg file is like trying to make eggs out of an omelet. It's a one way street and you're going against the flow.
Apr 30, 2012 08:46:20 #
2 Dog Don wrote:
An old friend of mine send me some printed picture... (show quote)
I hope you don't mind but i wanted to try and see what i could do with the first one. lost detail in the uniform but there wasnt much there to start with. I used the remove dust and scratches tool in photoshop cs5 and tried to remove a little of the noise in it.
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Apr 30, 2012 09:11:53 #
Apr 30, 2012 13:17:51 #
jgroff2506 wrote:
I played with it a little. Again, hope you don't mind
I don't mind at all in fact thanks to all who have or will help me with this effort
Apr 30, 2012 13:53:50 #
2 Dog Don wrote:
An old friend of mine send me some printed picture... (show quote)
Here is my shot at it.
Apr 30, 2012 15:15:15 #
I did the first two. Could take the background out of the one with the coupld. If you are happy, I will do the last one later today. Terry Sita
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Apr 30, 2012 15:18:21 #
Apr 30, 2012 16:02:09 #
tsia12 wrote:
I did the first two. Could take the background out of the one with the coupld. If you are happy, I will do the last one later today. Terry Sita
Thanks so much Terry the first two look great! I really appreciate your help.The B&W one has a lot of issues and I just seem to push them around in circles. I think they were scanned from a paper copy of an old photograph. Again thanks
Apr 30, 2012 19:00:32 #
May 1, 2012 03:42:17 #
A little "tinkering" helped some... Photoshop, Topaz de-noise, Dodge and Burn
Re-touched Sailor
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May 1, 2012 04:42:54 #
May 1, 2012 08:33:59 #
I used denoise and adjust on the sailor, but did not think of dodge and burn. That really did it.
May 1, 2012 23:13:23 #
Thanks to all my fellow hogs for the assist. I am sure they will love the results of your efforts. Don
May 3, 2012 22:34:59 #
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