Before and after post processing

[Keith B]

I think you did a great job...just out of curiosity: could you hint a bit to the actions you have made on it? Don't need to know the entire process, but an ideaon how it's been done would be very much appreciated [img]/emoticons/emotion-2.gif[/img]

Thanks Jan!


Well I after I tried all the easy stuff I thought might work, I realized I was going to have to do it the hard way.


I copied the layer, inverted the colors then played with the hue&saturation until the rusty sections looked close to the yellowish color the clean sections were. Then I added a layer mask and filled it with black. Then with white as the foreground color I reverse painted over it to fill it with the altered layer. This takes a lot of brush flow and resizing changes to get all the different areas right. It is time consuming but worth it. There were some areas that just out right needed to be repainted so I make a new layer select a color from the clean areas and lightly brush it in. I use some gaussian and motion blurs to make them blend nicely, sometimes create a layer mask a brush it to feather some spots.


To smooth out some of the clunky blue spots I copied the layer, do a heavy dust and scratch + gaussian blur + noise + gaussian blur. Then I add a layer mask fill it with black then paint with white over the problem areas and now you know all my (not so) secrets for fixing skin too.


There was some other "touch" stuff done also to even colors out, like dodging and burning.

[Sheiky]

My mother in law has this old picture of my father in law in her '67 VW Beetle. In the years it's quite damaged by the elements and a small kid. It was the only copy of that photo and my girlfriend asked me to try to "repair" it, while keeping the vintage look. Here's my edit: (it's not that smooth on 100%, but it's originally a 2*3" photo and that's what I was aiming for again)


Reviving the old man by Jan Paalman, on Flickr

[William]

Nice work Jan. I

[andnowimbroke]

When in the Netherlands ...

[William]

Gotcha [:P]

[bouwy]

When in the Netherlands ...


Gotcha


LOL

[JohnU]

This thread inspired me to play with DPP. After a long evening, I'm very pleased with my results. I suppose I'll have to make many garish adjustments before I awaken from my post-processing stupor.

Many thanks,
* * * John

[Sheiky]

I'll bump this thread up a bit. I tried to color an old B&W image last week. This is the original and the result:


My grandparents original by Jan Paalman, on Flickr


My grandparents by Jan Paalman, on Flickr

The process:

This image needed quite some work. 10 hours so far to be exact, but I must say that I was new to all of this. The PSD file is 1.4 GB and the image has 30 layers on top of the original file.

The coloring itself isn't actually that hard. It is done by adding a color balance layer and masking the area's that you want to "paint". With each color balance layer you need to create your own color and I think this is the hardest part. To get the colors right. The layer exists of a 3 tones color balance. You can set a specific color for shadows, highlights and mid-tones. For most of the layers I kept it easy and just worked with one of the tones.

[btaylor]

Gees Jan you've done a really good job there! It almost looks like a painting. That must've been painstaking work. Good stuff mate.

[TheRoff]

WOW Sheiky that is a great job. Lots of detailed work there. Nice one.

Lary