Proofs - Otten Family Photo Retouch
Description: 2 old original photos, scanned, color corrected, repaired, retouched as far as possible in stages. Deliverables: Original Photos and 2 samples. CD with 2 new hi-quality .jpgs.
Contact:
Pat, I'm not sure I'm totally happy with the colors I ended up with on #2. Your attempt ended up with possibly a little better color on #2. You may be able to take my version and use your program to color correct it even more. But at least I got rid of some of the worst wear and tear and damage to that image. I've also shown you here some of the steps in Adobe Photoshop taken to achieve these results.
Otten1 - Original
Original 1
otten1b_a1 - sharpened, copied curtains from other photo and put them in to lighten the background. color corrected.
otten1b_a1
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otten1a = Pat's 1st attempt
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otten1a_1 - Filter Sharpen
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Steps and Stages
otten2 1a

otten2_1a - Adjusted Auto color

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otten2_2a Otten2_2a - Adjusted Auto Contrast
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otten2 3a otten2_3a - Adjusted auto levels
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otten2_4a otten2_4a - filter smart sharpen
Amount: 100 + Radius 63.1
Shadow Tonal 50%, Radius 50%
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otten2_5a otten2_5a - retouched woman's nose, face, arm, and the 2 kids and worst spots on photo. Cropped slightly.
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otten_6a otten2_6a - adjusted the color slightly and touched up woman's arm, hair and childs arm and hair, the couch, the curtains.
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otten2_7a otten2_7a - sharpened entire image again.
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otten2_8a

otten2_8a - filtered scratches overall at 2 , nose shadow color fixed, and color adjusted again.

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