Photoshop CS
Restoring old photo with Healing Brush
"Snow Country" was scanned from a thirty-year old slide and needed cleaning up. The Healing Brush can be used to clean up an image.
Photoshop CS
Color Adjustment in Camera RAW
Healing Brush
You will make use of:
- Despeckle Filter for noise
- Healing Brush
- Levels and Curves
- Unsharp Mask
1. The image was cropped to eliminate the black border.
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2. To reduce the general noise, the Blue Channel was selected from Channels
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and the Despeckle Filter applied.
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3. Since the image was so crowded with tiny specks, a 300% View helped to select a clean space to Option-click the Healing Brush. Each speck, fleck and thread was then clicked away. When cleaning an image you may have to go back to a clean space and option-click again if the Healing Brush stops working.
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4. Levels was adjusted in all three channels separately from New Adjustment Layer.
(image 5: Red, Green and Blue channels from the left)
5. After adjusting levels, you can see the difference by clicking the eye on and off next to the Levels Layer.
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6. An “S” curve in the Curves dialog box added a little more punch to the image by brightening the bright areas and darkening the shadows.
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Note : You can download "curves" free for Photoshop Elements 2 and 3.
7. Before printing, an Unsharp Mask was applied. To apply an Unsharp Mask the Background layer was duplicated, named Unsharp and the mode changed from Normal to Luminosity.
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