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Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on December 24, 2005, 08:14:20 AM

Hi guys. A friend of me gave me two old pictures to fix and re-imprint. However I\'ve found a problem with the second one. The paper used (1967) has some kind of spots that once scanned produce the effect that you can see in the image. I\'ve tried every de-interlace option in photoshop, with no result.

Can you help me to remove that shit? I would really appreciate your help.

Let me post the original-size picture since it will be easier to edit and deal with the effect. Thanx in advance.

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telefonica.net%2Fweb%2Fmadan%2Ffoto2_arreglada.jpg&hash=06a9a1645996af9cc1240186c63ad84429fd6d28)

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: THX on December 24, 2005, 10:08:27 AM

yea those honeycombs will be a b!tch to take out, if not impossible.  That photo paper is no good.

wish i could help :(

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: Knotter8 on December 24, 2005, 10:39:16 AM

I assume you used a scanner, right ?

Hmm, maybe goto a good copy shop and let them make a quality copy on copy machine. These work differently than pc scanners. Might do the trick.

Then you can scan in the copy (assuming it\'s the desired result) and photo print from that.

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on December 24, 2005, 02:26:40 PM

Yes I used a home scanner... I hoped any of you gurus of photoshop could take out that effect......... samwise? :(

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: Blade on December 24, 2005, 05:56:28 PM

Even it was removed, it\'d be tedious and look bad in the end.

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: Samwise on December 25, 2005, 01:52:51 AM

Hey Adan. I\'d love to help you out, but I\'m not at home and won\'t be for another week. I might take a shot at it when I get back, but as I said, it\'ll be a while. :)

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on December 25, 2005, 03:52:05 AM

Ok, sammy, i\'ll wait. Thanx a lot.

Blade, once the effect is removed, I will improve the picture: sharpening, tones, bugs, etc.

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: mm on December 25, 2005, 06:00:57 AM

have it rescanned

shopping that image will look like ass regardless of time invested

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: videoholic on December 25, 2005, 06:41:55 AM

YEah.  It needs to be scanned better.  That would be horrible.

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: Blade on December 25, 2005, 07:01:14 AM

Seed_of_Evil: What mm said.

Technically you could invest a lot more time and get it pretty close to "normal"... but why not just see if it can be rescanned? Less alteration of the source image and far less time spent.

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on December 25, 2005, 07:08:40 AM

There is no way to scan it better. The problem is the paper used, not the scanner quality or the method used. There may be any way to remove that shit :(

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: Evi on December 27, 2005, 08:17:39 PM

That would be an extremely tedious and impossible task to remove all that honeycomb crap. Are you sure there is no other method of getting that pic on your comp?

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: videoholic on December 28, 2005, 07:45:30 AM

Take a picture of it.

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: Coredweller on December 28, 2005, 02:50:52 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Seed_Of_Evil
There is no way to scan it better. The problem is the paper used, not the scanner quality or the method used.

Not true.  If you look carefully, you\'ll notice that the honeycomb indentations are casting tiny shadows.  If you illuminate the print evenly from all directions using studio lighting, you can greatly diminish the shadows or eliminate them.  This cannot be done with a normal consumer scanner, which always projects light from one direction.  You need some studio lighting equipment and a good digital camera to photograph the print.  Good luck.

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on December 29, 2005, 01:53:22 AM

Quote

Originally posted by Coredweller
Not true.  If you look carefully, you\'ll notice that the honeycomb indentations are casting tiny shadows.  If you illuminate the print evenly from all directions using studio lighting, you can greatly diminish the shadows or eliminate them.  This cannot be done with a normal consumer scanner, which always projects light from one direction.  You need some studio lighting equipment and a good digital camera to photograph the print.  Good luck.

I see... It seems I will never get a good digital copy of this picture here in spain :( Thx

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: videoholic on December 29, 2005, 04:53:11 AM

Maybe you could use Maya?

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: Knotter8 on December 29, 2005, 05:43:39 AM

Don\'t tease the boy ;)

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: MPTheory on January 03, 2006, 05:12:36 PM

AHAHA OOOOH thats horrible

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: QuDDus on January 07, 2006, 07:20:38 AM

Why don\'t you soak the picture in bleach and when it drys scan it again. Picture quality should almost be perfect. The bleach will help distort the light effects of the scanner.

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: Samwise on April 12, 2006, 10:48:38 AM

Hi Adan, sorry I forgot about this thread. I\'ve taken a crack at it. Let me know what you think (I tweaked the image a bit as well and removed some of the obvious flaws). But if you want just the basic image I can give that to you as well.

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: Knotter8 on April 12, 2006, 10:57:53 AM

OMG ! This thread is more ancient than the photo !

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: Eiksirf on April 12, 2006, 11:52:32 AM

Wow I hope that\'s in time for him to appreciate the work you put into that.
 
What an improvement.
 
-Dan

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: Evi on April 12, 2006, 05:35:49 PM

Yeah...that\'s definitely a big improvement.

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on April 29, 2006, 01:56:47 PM

Thx a lot Sammy, I do appreciate your nice work on the picture, excellent indeed, but someone in other forums helped with similar results long ago. There are a lot of gurus out there in this field of PC.

Thank you very much and congratulations on the results you obtained. I\'ll save it as well.

Cheers, Mike.

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: Titan on May 02, 2006, 08:45:44 AM

Quote from: Knotter8

OMG ! This thread is more ancient than the photo !

Not really. It\'s only 4 months old.

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: MPTheory on July 30, 2006, 01:14:32 PM

yes but in web time, thats like 70 years ago

Title: Help needed to photoshop an old picture
Post by: Titan on July 30, 2006, 06:15:05 PM

Quote from: MPTheory

yes but in web time, thats like 70 years ago

Thanks for waiting three months to reply.