how do i restore old pics?

[The_Raven]

can anyone help??

ive got a old black and white pics (scaned into pc) that i would like to be restored or made to look better

can any one help??

heres the pic

 

[Johnny|lucidcomposure]

There is not a lot to restore about it apart from some defects and color tone (which I assume you want restored to black n white now)

Johnny

 

[The_Raven]

yea more of a clean up i was thinking of another photo when typing the title lol

that looks good ty how hard would it be to add colour?

 

[divine`]

how hard would it be to add colour?

Depends how you mean

If you mean turn it into full colour, quite hard...

 

[Johnny|lucidcomposure]

erm true color? Your looking at airbrushing on an alpha channel a series of pantone colors which isn't something I am well known with. It would require years of experience or a color version to take reference from at a quick guess.

Or do you mean by giving it a overall fill color such as (sepia) which your original was posted in.

 

[ChroniC]

shouldnt be hard to colorise it, il have a fiddle later when i can spare a few minutes.

Ok ive done it but every hosting place keeps refusing to let me show it,
Its very easy actually, and can be described quite easily.

Change mode to cmyk, then just lasso or use the layer mask to highlight areas, then make a new adjustment layer > curves, and select the channel colour and move the curves, whaaala colour.
Just need to fiddle a bit to get the right colours.

at last
this took about 10minutes.

couldnt be bothered to finish it, not very good with guessing colours either, Look at a normal picture and use those colours.

 

[Droolinggimp]

Thats pretty amazing tbh.. I am going to have a go now myself on some old photos my girlfriend has.. Just got to get them scanned first.

Any cheap scanners going?

 

[Johnny|lucidcomposure]

Thats pretty amazing really ChroniC. Very very impressed.

 

[divine`]

shouldnt be hard to colorise it, il have a fiddle later when i can spare a few minutes.

Ok ive done it but every hosting place keeps refusing to let me show it,
Its very easy actually, and can be described quite easily.

Change mode to cmyk, then just lasso or use the layer mask to highlight areas, then make a new adjustment layer > curves, and select the channel colour and move the curves, whaaala colour.
Just need to fiddle a bit to get the right colours.

at last
this took about 10minutes.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v695/chronic99uk/colour.jpg

couldnt be bothered to finish it, not very good with guessing colours either, Look at a normal picture and use those colours.

One thing that intrigues me, why did you pick red for the coat? I ask because that is exactly the colour I opted for when fiddling around adding colour yesterday before my attentions became required elsewhere

 

[ChroniC]

dont know, just memories of old pictures, and a guess. no reason.

 

[The_Raven]

had some people in another forum do the same and theres some colour ones there

click me

 

[divine`]

Whilst the colouring is nice on a few of them, they're using some really rather poor noise removal tools, or just using good ones badly

 

[Johnny|lucidcomposure]

Whilst the colouring is nice on a few of them, they're using some really rather poor noise removal tools, or just using good ones badly

far to intense isn't it. The images looks like its melting.

I wouldnt use noise removal anyway. The noise on the photograph shows its age.

 

[The_Raven]

can any one here do better??

 

[divine`]

can any one here do better??

Probably, if my PC with all my photo editing apps had an internet connection

 

[ElDude]

had some people in another forum do the same and theres some colour ones there

click me

Oo now that's a very handy forum. I know someone that would be very interested in that.

 

[ChroniC]

can any one here do better??

hell yes, most definetly, can i be bothered though. no! I told you how, just take some time over the specific bits and get the tones right.