Old photographs: Remembering the past

[cdnsue]

This thread is phenomenal. I love this walk down nostalgia lane!

[jrallo3789]

Hi, Another picture of Dad. Alittle bit older.

Comments welcome.

[juno444444]

I don't know if this baby is my mom or my grandma - I did some retouching practice on it... so here is before and after

[Paul Shields]

Great effort on the retouch ! I think I'd have personally left it in B&W, but that's just my preference .

[juno444444]

Yes, maybe. Except I was specifically drilling colorization at the time!

[jrallo3789]

Yes, I also like the b&w.

[cdnsue]

I just found this photograph yesterday so it is a work-in-progress in the cleanup.* I had a similar picture of this armoured vehicle marked 1922 and this would have been slightly earlier than that.* It's a Rolls Royce MK1 called the 'Scorpion', and this would have been in Ireland.*



I have begun the cleanup but any suggestions on how to remove the BIG stain in the center? Obviously that's got a lot of detail in it that I don't want to lose.

[juno444444]

Maybe you could (in Photoshop)

1. Select the whole stain with color selection tool

2. Expand the selection a bit to ensure you have it all

3. Control J to put it on another layer

4. Fool with adjustment layers till you get it more matching the colors around it. You could try

a. Hue Sat Brightness layer, adjust hue or reduce saturation, or reduce saturation of greens
b. Color balance to lower the green
c. Convert the whole thing to B&W so there is no green and then just use brightness or levels adjustment to make it match
d. Maybe even curves adjustment selecting specific colors and reducing that


Or you could just select the stain, convert the whole thing to BW, and then use levels adjustments on the stain to get it matching the rest...

and then see how it looks and decide what to do next...

[jrallo3789]

Hi, I'm going to show about seven phot's of my Dad during the war. I will post each one seperate.
Here's the first one,

He was in the Army criteria 1939-1940.

[jrallo3789]

Thi s is him in a jeep, he was a sergeant now. Note the rifle in the back of the jeep.(hope he didn't drive away.) LOL.

[jrallo3789]

This photo (Dad is second to the right) taken just before the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.
This was the gang of five!

[jrallo3789]

This is Dad pointing to a bullet hole that came thur the passenger side that almost killed him.

[jrallo3789]

Now it's the gang of six( note the two dog's on the hood of the truck) Dad is the closest to the front sitting down. this was somewhere in the pacific theater.

[jrallo3789]

Dad with two dog's, note the white dog (LADY). Believe it's the same one in other photo on hood of truck. My father liked dog's as they were always alert for suspicious noises.
During the war my father was shot in the face, as he and his men(the gang of five) took out a japanese machine gun nest.

My father was not only my Dad but he was my hero. It was very hard for him to talk about the war, he was a very quite person. He loved America and fought for our freedom's, that we enjoy today. He did what he had to do and expected nothing in return and in life he was the same way.

He regreted leaving the dog's behind when the war was over, sometimes I think he never got over it.
As I sit here typing this the tears are rolling down my face as I miss him very much.

[Paul Shields]

A great selection jrallo3789. That first shot is ripe for touching up the creases. You should post a link to the original and let losse the touch-up experts. You'd be amazed at what can be done .

[jrallo3789]

Hello Pauls,

I had that photo youched up already, the perfect one is at my deck where I work. I will post it here for you.

Thanks for your comments.

[Jon Foster]

More nice pictures. Keep them coming guys.

Jon.

[DeadSmiley]

My Grandfather and Grandmother on their wedding day in 1942...



I got this photo along with hundreds of others from my grandmother's home when she recently moved into an apartment and decided she no longer had room.