Bill Hancock Loc: Wausau, WI

I tried your suggestion and it did help. Thanks!

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Please allow me to congratulate you on your acceptance of criticism of your word usage. I think as you do in that I would prefer to be have someone tell me I am using the wrong words rather than continue and have people think I am uneducated. At 73 I occasionally use the wrong word and thankfully the computer reminds me of my error. But not always. in words like ware and tare the computer may not know you really mean wear and tear.

Many people I have tried to correct have gotten irate and so forth at my trying to show the proper wording. You accepted it with grace and good humor.

Well done sir,

Dennis

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

The value of photos like this, is the memories they bring back. People can point out the short comings in any image. The bottem line is who carres about that. It's a valuable look to history. Treasure it,

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

I think you did a good job. Faces are the hardest thing to clean up. It’s easy to change the contours by not matching tones and gradations from one tone to another. With PS Elements I’ve found that an Auto Levels adjustment works wonders sometimes after you’ve cleaned up the blemishes.

jdubu Loc: San Jose, CA

You can spend a lot of time cleaning up this photo, but the next step (I would do) is to use PS and make a black and white layer of your work or take color saturation down to zero. At this point, the most glaring problem is the colored staining of the scan. Taking it back to a black and white could solve the coloration off the right shoulder. You can also clone a darker color carefully over that spot, but use one of the blending modes, not 'normal' to do it. I want to say darken mode, but it might be lighten. I always forget which works in this instance, but you pick a source that matches what you want to do (like right above the stain) and the blend mode only allows the cloned area to darken anything lighter than what is originally there. Any original pixels that are more dark than the source are untouched. And vice versa using the other blend mode

I would add these in on separate layers and work slowly. For example, you can choose a brush and choose a grey that would bring the highlight of the wall down a little, the blend mode would help keep the texture if you use a subtle shade of gray that affects only the lighter tones. Same with the top of the arm.


I think taking the saturation out and then introducing a new layer with a hint of warmness will do wonders.

Bill P

Dave,

Thank You, I was was just scrolling down this post and trying to think to think of a way to say this without getting a nasty note from the moderator. When I read the original, it almost moved me to disclose where the Axis submarines were lurking.