I have an ancient B&W photo to restore. It's both faded and cracked.
Which operation should I do first:
1. Use Healing Brush/Spot Healing to fix cracks
2. Restore gamut and contrast

TIA
Norm

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:07:52 GMT, "Norm Dresner" <ndrez@att.net>
wrote:

>I have an ancient B&W photo to restore. It's both faded and cracked.
>Which operation should I do first:
> 1. Use Healing Brush/Spot Healing to fix cracks
> 2. Restore gamut and contrast
>
>TIA
> Norm

Myself, I would do a levels adjustment, then a contrast
adjustment. I save the clone tool for near the end, since making the
other adjustments first might bring out more imperfections.
I use the clone tool, then if I have trouble matching up some of
the shades of gray, I'll use the healing brush. I never use the
healing brush by itself to try and clone out imperfections, it's
always clone tool (rubber stamp) and then the healing brush....but
that's just one way to do this, others will have their preferences.<g>

Talker

Norm Dresner wrote:
> I have an ancient B&W photo to restore. It's both faded and cracked.
> Which operation should I do first:
> 1. Use Healing Brush/Spot Healing to fix cracks
> 2. Restore gamut and contrast
>
> TIA
> Norm

IF the print is faded to brown/yellow, scan it in color, then when you
have it in Photoshop, select the blue channel (Ctrl-3). The blue
channel sees the yellow/brown better than the red or green channels
(ctrl-1 and ctrl-2). Restore color with ctrl-~)

Often the blue channel will remove the necessity for dodging and burning
the faded areas completely. If you like the blue channel results, then
Image/Mode/Greyscale will convert the image to monochrome. Now is the
time to use levels to tweak the tonal rendering, then fix cracks etc
with Clone or healing brush, then sharpen lastly.

Colin D.

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"Talker" <Talker@thegood.com> wrote in message
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| On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:07:52 GMT, "Norm Dresner" <ndrez@att.net>
| wrote:
|
| >I have an ancient B&W photo to restore. It's both faded and cracked.
| >Which operation should I do first:
| > 1. Use Healing Brush/Spot Healing to fix cracks
| > 2. Restore gamut and contrast
| >
| >TIA
| > Norm
|
| Myself, I would do a levels adjustment, then a contrast
| adjustment. I save the clone tool for near the end, since making the
| other adjustments first might bring out more imperfections.
| [SNIP]

Yeah, in the absence of guidance and being anxious to start, I decided to
fix the cracks first and then adjust the image.

It didn't work to badly, except that the secondary adjustment made some of
the healing more obvious than I'd be willing to settle for and I had to go
back and clean that up.

Now I know.

Thanks
Norm