Fix a Photo (Page 3): I have rarely engaged in colorization and so never gained any skill in that area. Did you do this manually or use an app? Photoshop's neural filter never gives a...

terryMc Loc: Arizona's White Mountains

E.L.. Shapiro wrote:

Terry's rendition is my favorite. Excellent removal of burnishing and glare. I like the sepia tone (authentic) but I messed with it anyway. Take your pick, download, print, and frame it! Great old image!

I have rarely engaged in colorization and so never gained any skill in that area. Did you do this manually or use an app? Photoshop's neural filter never gives a good result without a lot of manual work to even out the color, and online colonizers like palette.fm are lo-res and hit-and-miss.

Delderby Loc: Derby UK

R.G. wrote:

Just in case you don't get another shot of the original, another for you to consider.
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Very well done. That is a great photo - with a skilled modern enhancement makes this a great pic.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Delderby wrote:

Very well done. That is a great photo - with a skilled modern enhancement makes this a great pic.

This is my grandfather and friends in Mexico at the beginning of the revolution.
They had the photo taken after a life and death encounter with some juaristas.

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Architect1776 wrote:

Absolutely yes.
Thank you all for your help.
It has been beyond my expectations.
Does anyone here do it for pay including colonization on random ones, please
just fixed but once in a while colorized?
Pm me please.

My studio has been offering photo-restoration for many years. In the old days, we did it with copy negatives, work prints, and manual retouching using airbrushes, and dyes. pencils and varios inks. Nowadays we do it on the computer. There are manual methods and a few automatic software programs.

As for colorization. In many cases it is fun and nice for display prints but not authentic based on the actual age or era of the image. Some photo studios of yore offered tinting or colorig in trnasparent oils as early as 1915 or 1920.

Some photographers feel copy and restoration work is dull and routine. I find it interesting because we get to see a lot of history and interesting old imagery in tintypes, wet plat, cyanotype, and even potato-starch prints. There are methods to bring back badly faded images to life. I have worked on circuit-camera panoramics of millitary regiments from WW I-a bit faded but tack-sharp. Copied them orth film used for printed circuit manufacturing- scan the negatives- magic!

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

terryMc wrote:

I have rarely engaged in colorization and so never gained any skill in that area. Did you do this manually or use an app? Photoshop's neural filter never gives a good result without a lot of manual work to even out the color, and online colonizers like palette.fm are lo-res and hit-and-miss.

Here's a nice little app that you can try for FREE.

https://photomyne.com/colorize-app

At the shop, we do some colorization manually but this little app is quite nice. After basic colorization yocan tweak the results in whatever program you use.

R.G. Loc: Scotland

Delderby wrote:

Very well done. That is a great photo - with a skilled modern enhancement makes this a great pic.

Thanks. I agree - great photo. The minor defects don't take away much from its value.

JFCoupe Loc: Kent, Washington

Since you have some contact with the folks who have the original, could you ask if you could go to their location and take a cell phone picture of the print? Or ask them to take a picture of the print and send it to you. The results may be better than trying to edit this image.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

JFCoupe wrote:

Since you have some contact with the folks who have the original, could you ask if you could go to their location and take a cell phone picture of the print? Or ask them to take a picture of the print and send it to you. The results may be better than trying to edit this image.

They are in Texas and other areas.
Their idea of a picture of the print they take cell phone pics.

terryMc Loc: Arizona's White Mountains

E.L.. Shapiro wrote:

My studio has been offering photo-restoration for ... (show quote)

I not only find restoration interesting, but compelling. I have studied it as much as possible using YouTube where there is lots of repetition of how to use the clone tool in Photoshop but very little of real value. I have Ctein's books with some very advanced masking techniques but I find them increasingly out of date, and some by other authors with similar problems. I haven't worked in a lab for more than 20 years and have no network to tap for ideas. Can you direct me to any good sources of up-to-date advanced techniques, preferably using Photoshop, since it is what I know?

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

It would be tedious work but you could use PSE, zoom way in and clone out the washed out areas using adjacent areas for the clone source.

cahale Loc: San Angelo, TX

Architect1776 wrote:

I got this photo of my grandfather, sitting on right, taken in Mexico where he grew up.
My cousin didn't do too well copying it.
For those who have developed amazing skills with PS is there a way to remove the reflection of light in the bottom corner?
I tried with PSE but I can't fix it.
PS the revolver he is holding I got from my father.
Thx

If you can't fix it, hide it. How about this? Not good, but better.