Hi Tracey,
It's astonishing to see a note from your email address that's more than a
sentence long! Welcome to the better half, and regards to Foxy as well.
I'm afraid you're following the only sure path (that I know of, at
least). Other, more powerful tools are apt to introduce additional blur or
other problems. If you have a sufficiently clear area that is adjacent to
a marred area of the same texture and "color," you can try using the lasso
tool (or other tools on that palette) to copy a larger area and then paste
that copy over a blemish. This will create a new layer, which you can
easily delete if it is unnatural-looking and won't become permanently part
of the final version until you merge it down. I've found this to be
particularly helpful with scratches, where you want a very long strip, but
a thin one, to copy over the scratch, and the cloning tool is both tedious
and possibly less effective.
I hope others will have better advice. I've worked with PS for a long time
but still seem to know only about 50f it.
Good luck!
Joel W.
At 09:52 PM 7/28/2003 +1000, you wrote:
Hi everyone. My name is Tracey, and I'm married to a Zuikoholic.
Foxy urged me to drop the list a note and see if anyone had any idea's that
might help me out. Just keep in mind that I am neither a photographer -
apart from the point and shoot variety - nor a photoshop user. In fact, this
is probably my first time using it to any great advantage.
A friend lost her father last week, and while she was away attending the
funeral, her husband found the only photo of her dad that she has and asked
a friend to scan it for him. In a round about way, it ended up with me, and
I naively thought I could do something with it. It's a black and white
photo, taken around 1956, and was in a fairly damaged state. At some point
it had been ripped and cello-tape was used across the front of the print to
repair it.
So, I've scanned it at 1200 dpi, in TIFF format and made a bunch of copies,
so that if I totally stuffed up I could go to a fresh one. I opened it up in
Photoshop 6.0, converted it to RGB, blew it up to 120%, and using the clone
tool, I'm just going along row by row to clean out the scratches, bubbles
and creases. I've had some success with the ripped areas that are missing
pieces of print, although, I need to add more varied texture in those areas.
Moving the clone origin around seems to help smooth out repetitious area's.
I've tried not to remove too much, as I don't want it looking sterile, just
repaired.
Is there a better way of doing it? I'm absolutely flying by the seat of my
pants here. I've never done any work in photoshop apart from blurring out
the occasional redeye, and I really only seem to be using the cloning tool
with any success. All those other tools have gotta be useful for something,
right? I seem to be taking the cautious way, slow and steady, and though I'm
not looking to rush this, I've gotta hope there's a faster way of doing
this. If anyone has any experience with repairing tears and removing old
cellotape marks, or similar darkened stains, I'm willing to listen. Any
advice would be greatly appreciated.
Tracey
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