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Removing
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The
image suffers from various types of defects such as surface scratches,
discolorations and details fading.
This photo restoration process consists of
several steps:
- Reduce major scratches
with the curves tool;
  - Remove other flaws with dust and scratch filter;
  - Replace missing and faded parts.
Convert Images to Black and White :
Image - Adjustments -
Desaturate (
Ctrl+Shit + U ) |
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Remove
light spots
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The first thing
we're going to do is reducing major scratche.
This will reduce the amount of correction
work , don't degrade image quality and will be useful in the next
step,
Select Magic
Wand Tool and click on the white
area to get a selection.
Soften the edge of a selection using the
Feather Command.
Feather Radius
= 3 px;
Apply the Curves
(Ctrl + M )
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Removing
Dust and Scratches |
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The basic removal method described in many guidance and consists
in selectively Using the History
Brush after applying
the Dust
& Scratches filter to
an entire image .
This method is great for fix minor flaws.
However this image suffers from various types of defects and damage
size is commensurate with the size of the important detail. So filter
effect will be destructive : the worst scratches will not be eliminated
and important details will be destroyed.
For the decision of this problem we will
align the the critical areas with the Cloning
Tool after applying
the dust and scratch filter and before
applying the History
Brush.
The combination of these tools allow to
remove the scratches and restore the surface without additional
softening/ blurring to maintain maximum detail.
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For better results we will apply sequence
of actions for each important part of the photo.
At first, we will fix the girl's face.
- Click the Create New
Snapshot button at the bottom of the History
pallet;
- Go to Filter > Noise
> Dust & Scratches and elect a Radius=
3; Threshold= 0;
- finally restore
the surface use the Cloning
Tool;
-add some noise too simulate a natural grain
effect on photos;
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- Now we are ready to apply a History
Brush to our image
Set last action as source for the History
Brush , click on the Snapshot 1 is placed
at the top of the History
Palette and start painting
on the image. |
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-To
fix the eyes, lip and nose we use a Bbrush,
Burning
and Finger
Tools. |
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You
can see that significant quality improvement and sharpness increase
can be reached by several brush strokes
. - move lost hair and ear from other suitable image |
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Similarly
repeat the steps for the rest of the detail. |
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Fix
background image and add sepia tone. |
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To reduce the amount of correction work we
will partially restore the original background.
Cut image and move one on the studio
background from clipart.
Add a sepia tone to the image and and view
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