I was able to do about the same using curves in both PhotoShop and PW
Pro and then upping the saturation about 25%. I added both green and
blue (more green than blue) and subtracted a little red.
I couldn't get it any better than that. I think it might require
masking the foliage so the the foliage can be put on its own set of curves.
Chuck Norcutt
Richard Lovison wrote:
> Hi Walt,
>
> I did some quick work using Photoshop 7... no magic. First I used the
> Auto-Color option and then did a bit of work using Variations. Here is what
> I came up with:
>
> http://people.simons-rock.edu/rlovison/temp/walt.jpg
>
> a bit monochrome, probably similar to Chris's attempt and definitely less
> red.
>
> Richard
>
>
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
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