Walt
I had a go using iEdit in Photoshop CS, but I just went less pink and
more monochrome. Good luck; I am sure that I should have wanted to
keep a picture like that as well.
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
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On 28 Dec 2005, at 15:50, Walt Wayman wrote:
> While cleaning out the basement last month, I discovered a long-
> forgotten shoe box full of slides. Since they had been down there
> for nearly 30 years and not stored under ideal conditions, some
> have deteriorated, particularly some E-3 (or maybe even E-2) stuff
> I processed myself long, long ago, it now having a pronounced loss
> of color and a shift of what color's left.
>
> I've come close to getting the color back like it ought to be, but
> I'm still not satisfied. This is a little JPEG of a straight 5400
> dpi scan, with no attempt made at correcting color, of a shot of my
> mother, who was a school teacher, with one of her most favorite
> students, who was also my high school sweetheart and first wife,
> acting silly out by the strawberry patch. (Southern women for some
> reason get foolish around a garden.)
>
> http://home.att.net/~hiwayman/wsb/media/192375/site1072.jpg
>
> Mother died this past October, and Annette was killed in an
> automobile accident in 1963, just over two years after we were
> married, and, being the sentimental old fart I have become, now
> that I've found this picture after all these years, I'd like to be
> able to make a halfway decent print, although it's not particularly
> sharp, even though taken with a Pentax SLR.
>
> I'm getting closer and closer to getting the colors right, but
> still no cigar, so anybody have any suggestions that might help me
> get it right? I just can't get the background green without
> screwing up everything else.
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
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