{"id":16229,"date":"2014-04-23T05:47:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T10:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=16229"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:51:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:51:01","slug":"easter-photo-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/04\/23\/easter-photo-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Photo Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The problem with old color photographs is they fade. Here we have\u00a0photo of Joe (center) and his siblings, John and Karen – looking like set extras on Mad Men.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Here’s the original scan of Sally and Bobby Draper’s friends.<\/p>\n

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The first order of business is Image>Adjustment>Levels, which corrects the overall tonal problems in an image.<\/p>\n

\"BurnTool\"\u00a0Then I turned to the Burn Tool to minimize the sun flare in the upper right hand corner.<\/p>\n

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The next step is Image>Mode>LabColor>Curves to boost the color, then back to Image>Mode>RGB. And just like that – an old snapshot returns to it’s former glory!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The problem with old color photographs is they fade. Here we have\u00a0photo of Joe (center) and his siblings, John and Karen – looking like set extras on Mad Men.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,3113],"tags":[3137,1011,66,336],"class_list":["post-16229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-photo-restoration-2","tag-color-correction","tag-mad-men","tag-photoshop","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4dL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":582,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/10\/19\/tag-team-photo-restoration\/","url_meta":{"origin":16229,"position":0},"title":"Tag Team Photo Restoration","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 19, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a cousin's photograph that has seen some better days. 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