[rollei_list] Re: Trying to restore Kodachromes taken 50 years ago
- From: Chris Burck <chris.burck@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 15:39:16 -0500
Wonderful images, Carlos. Are you one of the two "brothers"? And in the
first image, is your father out of the frame (taking the shoot), or is he
in the frame (i.e. tripod & self timer)?
On Aug 8, 2014 11:26 AM, "Georges Giralt" <georges.giralt@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Carlos,
> Actually the PS Elements was, IIRC version 4 or 5. The function was
> available in "normal" mode, not advanced mode.
> I can't tell you exactly where because the machine running Windows
> software with this version of PSE installed had died. And I did not plan to
> get another one nor repair it... (as an IT Unix engineer, I run Linux on
> every computer of the house).
> So try if you can switch to assisted mode and find if the restoration
> option is here or not.
>
> Le 08/08/2014 13:31, CarlosMFreaza a écrit :
>
>> 2014-08-07 18:06 GMT-03:00 Georges Giralt <georges.giralt@xxxxxxx>:
>>
>>> ... Hello Carlos,
>>> A few months back I had to scan prints of my father which died in 76. So
>>> they where snaps made and printed without conservation in mind in the
>>> seventies.
>>> Of course they have faded. So I scanned them and used the "restoration"
>>> process in Photoshop elements.
>>> It ask for you to designate a white point and/or a black and did a pretty
>>> good job at restoring them automatically....
>>> So you may want to test it for your images. (my father had unusual very
>>> light blue eyes. They returned to the shade of blue I remembered... so I
>>> was
>>> happy)...
>>>
>> Hello Georges:
>> I did not find the option to restore images
>> automatically in PS Elements 9. Vuescan has options to restore
>> chromatic losses and faded colors, but they were not enough for these
>> slides, they work better for prints. I worked on each slide using
>> level and curves for each color channel mainly; I downloaded as
>> plug-in, from somewhere in the web, a curves tool for PSE, it works
>> fine.
>>
>> Carlos
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