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.