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[Jonas.Wendorf]

Hey there :-),

my recent one had a little bit of glare on it, so I thought that might be an appropriate title for this ;-).

At first, let me show you the before and after:

Before:
After:

First things first, I started with the color correction (this time ☺).
I created a new curves adj. layer in "Color" mode, picked the middle gray eye-dropper and sampled the elder man's hair (which is supposed to be neutral).
Now I created a levels adj. layer in "Luminosity" mode and set the black point to 30 to fill the full range of the histogram.

Now I used a frequency separation (explanation here: http://www.operationphotorescue.org/forum/index.php/topic,2687.0.html) with the "Surface Blur" filter as my low pass.
I created a new layer in between the LOW and the HIGH and painted with the nearby colors over all the areas with defects.
After that I choose the stamp tool, worked on the HIGH layer with sample set to "Current layer".

Because some details got lost and I had still some shining areas, my final step was to create a new layer in "Soft Light" mode and repainted shadows/highlights.


Edit: I btw. thought of doing a video walkthrough (not a tutorial though) for one of my next images, if you'd be interested :-)?

[Mhayes]

Jonas, you did a great job on this one and thanks for the tutorial. It is great for us to see your workflow. The idea of a video would be great. At some point I would like to have all of the tutorials in one area. We have had some really good ones. However, some no longer are helpful when the photos that go with them are no longer there.

I notice just a shade of the red damage by the taller man on your right by his head. I don't think it is noticeable, but only when you know what the original looked like. What I love about your restoring is that you restore your background instead of trying to replace it.

Margie

[Jonas.Wendorf]

Now that you're saying it, I'm wondering, how I could ever not have seen it ☺.

Update:

I guess, in most cases it's not only more realistic, but also easier to restore the background instead of adding in a new one that tries to replicate the old one :-).

With the video I'm not sure, when I'll find the time to do it, maybe on the next one, maybe one more :-).

[philbach]

I felt that the photo was a tad on the yellow side.  I used a curves adjustment layer to lower the highlights some and then a #80 photo filter at about 50% opacity to add more blue.



I also tried image adjustments/shadow highlights to lower the glare some but the above seemed to work better.  I placed a sampler on the gentleman to our rights shirt and it was not neutral.

[Jonas.Wendorf]

Phil, you're probably right about the image having a yellow cast.
I fixed it using a curves adj. layer and adding some blue.
Next I desaturated the gentleman's dresses.

In your version I found the highlights a little too dull, that's why I did it this way :-).

[philbach]

Very Nice, Jonas

[G3User]

Jonas,

I have tried your method a couple of times but seemed to finish up jumping from layer to layer a lot of the time.

Can you suggest a suitable image (easy!) and I will have another go at it

Thanks

Athol

[Jonas.Wendorf]

Athol,

as I said, I'll do a little walk-through soon which will probably also cover the techniques I used on this particular image :-).
The main thing is to first cover all the low frequency damage (disable the HIGH layer for this and work on "Normal" layer in between) and after that take out the stamp tool (sample: "Current layer") to repair all the high frequency damage.
Trust me, once you get the hang of it, it's a real time-saver :-).

Edit: Okay, seems like upload to me ☺
Thanks again everybody :-)