{"id":32124,"date":"2022-06-21T06:02:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T10:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=32124"},"modified":"2022-06-19T01:03:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T05:03:06","slug":"visibly-different-part-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/06\/visibly-different-part-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Visibly different, part 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A little bit different approach this week, sparked by stumbling across this in my folders. I have no idea who this is, because the image was uploaded to a newsgroup dedicated to Photoshop as a challenge:<\/strong> to see who could restore it to an acceptable state. I wasn’t actively participating, but I downloaded it anyway to see what I could do with it, and according to the dates on the various files, it sat on my harddrive for almost a year before I tackled it. This was back in 2002\/03 – they’ve been sitting in an old folder all that time, despite the fact that I’ve replaced harddrives at least seven times in that period. I could say I should probably do a bit more housecleaning, but then again, we wouldn’t have this example if I had.<\/p>\n

There are, of course, no Photoshop filters than ‘fix’ damage like this, so it’s a lot of meticulous work in each aspect of damage:<\/strong> tracing the edges of the horrible cello tape, carefully following the cracks and folds, and all that jazz. Worst, I think, was the water\/mildew staining giving a milky vague hue to some of the dark areas. And I don’t recall how many hours I spent on it, but the file dates progress over a few days at least. I also feel obligated to mention that I never took any kind of training in photo editing, being entirely self-taught with buttressing by the occasional web page that showed some cool technique. So how did it come out?<\/p>\n

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I look at this now and see where I could have done better, but overall, I think the original owner might never have noticed these and would have been pleased with the result. Or I could be dead wrong. It’s no Ecce Homo<\/em>, though – I feel comfortable saying that.<\/p>\n

But does a true monochrome image look ‘right?’ Chances are, the original back in the day had these hues, because that sepia coloration is a product of aging from the chemicals used at the time rather than what prints looked like when fresh, but we also expect to see this tone in old photos – it’s gravitas<\/em>. So, another version with the sepia tone restored, just not as far.<\/p>\n

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Both of the restored images, by the way, were tweaked slightly just before this post was written, in two ways. The first is, I had never done the borders around the print, which still retained the lines and wrinkles and so on, but it made the images look odd, so I smoothed them back out (pure ‘white’ borders – that’s easy.) The second is, the sepia tone that I’d originally selected seemed a little too magenta, so I shifted it for this image.<\/p>\n

While I would be curious to see what I could do with this now (given that the efforts that you see here were all made nineteen years ago,) I’m not so curious that I’d spend a few dozen hours on it – not even for a post. But another example may be along before the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A little bit different approach this week, sparked by stumbling across this in my folders. I have no idea who this is, because the image was uploaded to a newsgroup dedicated to Photoshop as a challenge: to see who could restore it to an acceptable state. I wasn’t actively participating, but I downloaded it anyway […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3467,6796,6794,6795],"class_list":["post-32124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","tag-adobe-photoshop","tag-fixing-damage","tag-photo-restoration","tag-sepia-tone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}