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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