Removing Dust and Scratches |
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The image suffers from various types of defects such as surface scratches, discolorations and details fading. This photo restoration process consists of several steps:
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Desaturate ( Ctrl+Shit + U ) |
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The first thing we're going to do is reducing major scratche. This will reduce the amount of correction work , don't degrade image quality and will be useful in the next step, Select Magic Wand Tool and click on the white area to get a selection. Soften the edge of a selection using the Feather Command. Feather Radius = 3 px; | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Removing Dust and Scratches. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| The basic removal method described in many guidance and consists in selectively Using the History Brush after applying the Dust & Scratches filter to an entire image . This method is great for fix minor flaws. However this
image suffers from various types of defects and damage size is commensurate
with the size of the important detail. So filter effect will be destructive
: the worst scratches will not be eliminated and important details will
be destroyed. The combination of these tools allow to remove the scratches and restore the surface without additional softening/ blurring to maintain maximum detail. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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For better results we will apply sequence of actions for each important part of the photo. At first, we will fix the girl's face.
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| You can see that significant quality improvement and sharpness increase can be reached by several brush strokes. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| | Fix background image and add sepia tone. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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To reduce the amount of correction work we will partially restore the original background. Cut image and move one on the studio background from clipart. Add a sepia tone to the image and and view result. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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