RepairingDigitalPhotographs
Adobe Senior Creative DirectorRussell Brown shows you how to repair yourdigital images with Adobe
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Photoshop
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REPAIRING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS, PART 1
In this demo, we will repair a photograph taken with a low-resolutiondigital camera—in this case, the Kodak DC50. Often these cameras produce excellent results, but they have a few deficiencies that can berepaired digitally using layers. This technique is also quite useful for repairing badly scanned images.
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Open your digital imagefile in Photoshop. Zoom inon the image and take a closelook at the problem areas,especially noting the skintone in this image.
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Go through the RGBchannels. Press Command/Ctrl+1 for the Red channel,Command/Ctrl+2 for theGreen, and Command/Ctrl+3 for the Blue channel.Notice the artifacting andextra noise in the Bluechannel. The Blue channelis the telltale channel of ascanned image and often willshow the errors of the scan.
Blue channel
The CCD (ChargedCouple Device) inthe camera is leastsensitive to the blues,and it is more difficultto interpret those colors.Also, when you capturean image with a digitalcamera, it’s compressedwith JPEG compression. The combination of these two factorscreates noise in theblue channel.
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Zoom out of the imageand return to the RGBcomposite. Here’s how toeasily fix this image usingPhotoshop layers. Duplicatethe Base Layer by dragging itonto the New Layer icon atthe bottom of the Layerspalette. Double-click thisnew layer and rename itColor Blur.
Preferences
For this demo, wechose Preferences >Display & Cursors, andselected. Brush Sizeand Precise.
Shortcuts
Throughtout this docu-ment, “Command/Ctrl”means Command on theMacintosh
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and Ctrl onWindows
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REPAIRING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS, PART 1
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Choose Filter > Blur >Gaussian Blur. Choose valuesbased on the resolution of the image. You want to softenthe image—not lose theimage completely, but softenit—especially in the troubledarea of the blue channel.
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With the Color Blur layerstill targeted, create anoverlay of the two layersusing Color mode from thepop-up menu in the Layerspalette.
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Zoom in to the imageand look at the same area.Press Command/Ctrl+3 togo to the blue channel again.See how the noise has beensmoothed out. Amazing buttrue! But wait, there’s more...
Color mode
Colors are overlaid onthe existing pixels whilethe highlights andshadows of the basecolor are preserved. The base color is notreplaced, but is mixedwith the blend color toreflect the lightness anddarkness of the original.
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