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[PhotoBob]

I got the name "PhotoBob" when I was in the Navy, it's sort of stuck. 20 years ago I used to copy originals with a 4x5 speed graphic filtering to lighten stains, make a large work print, airbrush, use dyes, pencils, bleach, whatever it took to fix the damage. Copy the work print with the speed graphic again and print off as many prints as the customer wanted.  THANK GOD FOR SCANNERS AND PHOTOSHOP!!! 

I work full time in the photo lab at Boeing (McDonnell Douglas) in St. Louis. We do a certain amount of retouching every day. Usually its along the lines of removing dust bunnies, halos from over sharpening, or jpeg jaggies from over compression.  We also deal with camera RAW constantly. Both camera files that were shot that way, and we use it for correcting jpg and tif files. Used correctly, it's wonderful.  One thing we don't have to deal with is photos with mold and water damage on them, so this is something that will be a learning curve for me. I'll be headed to the forum when I run into trouble! 

I'm truly looking forward to helping out. I know people who lost relatives in Joplin.

Until we speak again -
PhotoBob

[Mhayes]

Hi PhotoBob,

What an interesting career you have had! I think we can learn a lot from you and are you are in for lots of fun with our photos. Translation: You are in for some real headaches! Seriously, you will find this very rewarding as you will be giving back a person's memories.

Right now we are winding down on photos and we hope to have a lot of photos in October when we go to Joplin, MO. Hopefully in between times we might be able to get some of the damaged photos there uploaded.

Thanks for joining and look forward to hearing more from you on the forum!

Margie

[glennab]

Hi PhotoBob

A warm (and I do mean warm) welcome from Florida.  I'm fascinated by your experience.  I suspect you'll be able to help us with some of our issues, and we can teach you to deal with muck!  Sounds like a great trade to me.  I'm so glad you've joined us and will look for you on the forum.

I'm sorry that you are so close to the losses in Joplin.  I've discovered some new Facebook walls about that poor devastated town, and I'm so glad we're going to be able to get there to give back a little of what they lost.  Every story I read of what people went through there shreds my heart. And the photos don't even look real. They are astounding.

You're about to discover the incredible rewards of making some of their history whole again.

Thank you for becoming part of our team.

GK

[Hannie]

Hi Photobob, welcome to the forum.
What a great job you have, you will love our water and mold stained photos! 
Jump right in and pick one, they are not as bad as they seem....

Hannie

[Pat]

Welcome PhotoBob!  What an interesting background you have.  Thank you for deciding to lend us a hand.  We look forward to seeing more of you here on the forum.

Pat

[PhotoBob]

Hannie,
I've been searching CS5 for the mud, water & mold stain remover tool... haven't found it. NAPP claims it won't be available until CS7    I look forward to the day when I can handle the images that are in your gallery right now.  Is there a tutorial on the site as to how to deal with the ones with the yellow swirls?  Thanks

[Pat]

I can see you are going to fit right in around here PhotoBob.   

Pat

[Hannie]

lol!
Photobob, the photos with  the yellow swirls in my gallery are not as hard to fix as you may think when you first look at them (and this time I am not lying!)

When you check out the blue channel you will find that nearly all detail is still there.  You can take that blue channel on it's own layer and tweak, repair and adjust the levels/curves some.
Then you have a nice luminosity layer that you can use over your restore and if necessary with a hide all layer mask bring back the missing parts.

It is a good idea to use the forum search and type "blue channel".  There are lots of examples available.

Of course you can also wait for the CS7 release!

Hannie

[Johnboy]

PhotoBob,

Welcome to OPR. I fully understand your first paragraph. I have watched photo instructors with their Photochrome dyes blend together the 2 or 3 images they printed on the same color photo print. My Navy photo career was on an electronics bench repairing ariel cameras and such.

I also understand the request for the mud filter. My first restore looked to have a muddy film on it. So I posted to the forum. No mud filter but a lot of help getting through it.

So sit back, relax and go crazy with the rest of us.

Johnboy

[PhotoBob]

Johnboy,
My job in the Navy was to keep the recon system running on the RF-8G Crusader. I was in VFP-63 Det-5 attached to the America from 74-78. Squadron based out of Miramar NAS SAN Diego, Ship home ported in Norfolk VA.  We didn't repair the cameras (first the Chicago Arial KA's then later we transitioned to the KS's) but we did repair the rotatable mounts and of course anything hard wired in the aircraft. Most of the time it was done on the flight deck in the middle of the night with a flash light jammed between my neck and shoulder.  It's a good thing I was young!