This is the student's original image:
This is the student's original image:
Analysis: Crop to straighten.
Image needs sharpening first, to compensate for damage done to data,
possibly during scan, and by too bright a flash bulb, and maybe by time
simply fading the photo.
Eyedropper tool reveals a green cast - check neutrals (areas that shouldn't
have a hue. In other words, the white gown and jacket, and the wall which
should be gray.)
Some areas of data are blown out - the white dinner jacket we can get
away with, but the flash bulb has put white areas on everybody's foreheads,
cheeks and chins.
Here (above) is my work. Some data areas were simply gone and can't
be brought back. The green cast has been removed, the image is sharpened,
but not oversharpened. Skin is flesh colored, and tones, picked up from
the faces, have been brushed over foreheads, chins, cheeks, as needed.
I used a brush at 20% opacity. Pressed Alt to toggle to the Eyedropper
and clicked on a skin tone, then brushed carefully to tint the blown areas.
Analysis - Not at all a bad result for a first go at Levels. Obviously, there are a few areas that Levels alone couldn't fix. When data is not there, it's just not there. The forehead of the oldest and second oldest boys are good examples. Watch for flashbulb damage. Also, notice the bride's left eye. I'm not sure what caused the white fleck, but I don't think it belongs there.
My Layers Palette
My History Palette
Here are my Layers palette and History palette. I'll tell you, step by step, what I did:
1. Opened the image.
2. Cropped. C.
3. Set the image size, because I knew I would be putting it on a web
page and the large image was draining my resources. Image > Image Size.
4. Sharpened. Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask.
5. Used the History brush (Y) to paint some facial areas back to original
appearance. The sharpening was fine for most of the image, but not there.
Notice that I had to put my History Brush source after the Crop (the checkbox
to the left of the action name.) You can't use the History Brush to paint
back to a state before a size change.
6. Applied a Level's layer, setting RGB first, and then the individual
channels. Especially worked with the Green channel to take out the green
cast. Also increased yellow and red just a bit to take out the cyan and
blue,and to adjust for flesh tones and flowers.
7. Flattened the image.
8. Created a new layer. Used the paintbrush at 20% opacity to paint
over blown out areas with skin tones picked up from faces. Each person
has his own unique color, so I was careful to use only a hue from the person
I was painting on.
Christine Frey