Restored & Colorized
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Cany143 wrote:
Heck of a way to spend a Friday, but it's for a friend. So.......
The AI colorizers are getting very good at getting skin tones, but clothing is still a problem. There are methods to fix the blotchiness, but generally speaking, you have to work with layers and masks. This is a great old photo. If it's possible, I would suggest spending a little more time getting the guy's suit more evenly colored.
Dec 29, 2023 20:07:35 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
terryMc wrote:
The AI colonizers are getting very good at getting skin tones, but clothing is still a problem. There are methods to fix the blotchiness, but generally speaking, you have to work with layers and masks. This is a great old photo. If it's possible, I would suggest spending a little more time getting the guy's suit more evenly colored.
After spending an inordinate amount of time removing dust spots, fine scratches in the emulsion, and (what looked like either exhausted fixer or wash bath) blotches that the scan picked up in b&w, Ps's 'Colorize' Neural filter was applied. Skin tones were relatively awful but they at least provided a starting place with which to begin making corrections. Worse, however, was the introduction of purples, greens (greens??? wut? there???) and dark umber tones where there was no reason (AI or otherwise) for them to have been. Most of those were 'corrected' with the use of numerous masks, but I do seem to have missed one especially egregious area on the sleeve (left side as viewed) of the gentleman's jacket, which I will 'repair' before I finally print the image.
What you've suggested will be acted upon, TMc, but there's a lot of small scale 'blotches' that I have no intention to address.
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Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
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Huh? What's with this "." business, 13? What happened to the re-do you briefly posted then (for whatever reason or reasons, AI or otherwise) deleted? It wasn't all that bad. Considering, of course, that you didn't have the (1.4 Gb) source file that I have to fiddle with.....
Dec 29, 2023 20:42:01 #
Cany143 wrote:
After spending an inordinate amount of time removi... (show quote)
Yes, the left side of the gentleman's sleeve might be fixed a bit more, but most people would be mainly interested in their faces, I think. They look good!
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Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
MFTVGirl wrote:
Yes, the left side of the gentleman's sleeve might be fixed a bit more, but most people would be mainly interested in their faces, I think. They look good!
You are not --and neither, I hope, am I-- "most people", acronym-Girl. You are --as am I-- a discriminating individual. And that you can take to the bank. (Where you'll get what? 0.01% interest on your investment?)
"Most people" would not give a tinker's dagnabbit about this foto. And rightfully so. It ain't their kin, it ain't in their shoebox of grammy's hand-me-down photos, and it could otherwise end up in somebody's town dump, were push to come to shove.
But it's important to the friend who entrusted me with it. And she's a really good friend. And (my) time --thankfully-- isn't money. Because it's my time, however many eternities of it I may have left.
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