wedding photo

[daq7]

I have this old pre-wedding photo that got very damaged by the sun. The photo is not mine, but I repaired it in photoshop.



This is the repair:



I thought it went pretty well, but this photo should look fairly black to you. If it is washed out then I give up on figuring out which color profile to use to show things in a way where I can predict how they will work.

So let me know if it is very dark or kind of washed out. Please.

[BlueRob]

I did improve no doubt but still looks like and old pic to me. I guess it depends if you are going after a monotone pic or you want to endeavor into restoring its color which can be done is PS.
If you go for B&W I think it can be improved more in PS messing up with the black and white balance, contrast, a few filters and so on.

[daq7]

Yeah I am looking at this on my laptop, and I just am not getting the right profile or something, because this looks very washed out on this computer. I really need to figure this out.

[BlueRob]

Yeah I am looking at this on my laptop, and I just am not getting the right profile or something, because this looks very washed out on this computer. I really need to figure this out.

I think Daq that your are too worried about those profiles...as far as I understand the profiles are slight adjustments in the color tonal ranges to be as "real" as possible. I think that the changes are very small from your screen to mine and the rest of us without "calibrated monitors" Maybe your greens are a tad more yellow than the ones I see here or something like that. What I´m saying is that I´m almost sure that what you are looking in your screen is very very similar to other monitors display.

[daq7]

It actually is not, because I am now able to see it on a totally different monitor, and it is not anywhere near as black on my laptop monitor when posted on this site. It looks really bad, while it looks quite good on my samsung monitor. It looks completely different

[Photo-John]

Looks pretty good to me. I'm looking at it on the profiled CRT monitor on my office machine. There are two parts to profiling - the profiles you use to setup and output your photo, and the monitor profile. If you set up the photo on a properly profiled monitor and then look at it on an unprofiled monitor, don't expect it to look right. Most monitors - espcially backlit laptop displays, are pretty bad.

[BlueRob]

It actually is not, because I am now able to see it on a totally different monitor, and it is not anywhere near as black on my laptop monitor when posted on this site. It looks really bad, while it looks quite good on my samsung monitor. It looks completely different

That makes me think how other people around here see the pics that I upload....Maybe in my monitor they look awesome and on the rest of the screens look crapy

[Photo-John]

That makes me think how other people around here see the pics that I upload....Maybe in my monitor they look awesome and on the rest of the screens look crapy

Yup - that's the number one reason for getting your system profiled and using the correct profiles when you're setting up and saving your photos. We put in a lot of effort to take and make great photos. With all that work it's a shame if they end up looking like crap when other people look at them.

[daq7]

I am posting this as a test. No need to look or comment.

[daq7]

Well, that is a lot closer to how I wanted it to look at least from my laptop display, Much more saturation of the blacks. Oddly I know HOW I got the imrprovement but am still mystified as to why it helped. If I load the picture in with adobe space and then convert it to srgb it still sucks. But if I load it in with the monitor profile and convert to srgb it improves. That makes absolutely no sense to me. None at all.

[OldClicker]

Well, that is a lot closer to how I wanted it to look at least from my laptop display, Much more saturation of the blacks. Oddly I know HOW I got the imrprovement but am still mystified as to why it helped. If I load the picture in with adobe space and then convert it to srgb it still sucks. But if I load it in with the monitor profile and convert to srgb it improves. That makes absolutely no sense to me. None at all.

The monitor profile and AdobeRGB are two completely different things. It isn't one or the other. - TF

[freygr]

The photo needs to have area cut and pasted to different layes and have the curves(Gama) adjusted and the brightness contrast fine turned to mach the undamaged areas. The colors just forget about unless you going to spend a lot of time on it. The color information is gone.

[daq7]

It was a black and white photo to begin with. So any color would be completely speculative.

[Frog]

I think you did pretty darn good. I hope crts come back.

[daq7]

Thanks Frog. The damaged one looks really bad. The hardest part was dealing with the blown shadows in lori's hair. I still need to get a copy of this printed.