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and after

<img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/73341594_bf8a13c3fc_b.jpg">


The 'before' is a scan pulled from a film negative that I had stored rolled up in a film container eons ago. Needless to say, I didn't know much about photo/film preservation back then.

Lots and lots of use of the healing tool in PS, plus auto-color correction at the end resulted in the 'after'. I started with a beta version of PS, and just 'finished' today. Some of the earlier work I did in the pre-release PS wasn't very good, and I had to go back over it to try and correct it. I may just do a better scan of it and start over (but maybe with a more interesting frame).

Really don't know how much more I'll bother with on this particular shot.

Any thoughts or comments are appreciated.

I meant the "before". The "after" is pretty damn good! :-P I don't know a thing about fixing scanned images...otherwise I'd give you a little more feedback. To my untrained eye...that's impressive.

thanks for the comment, though. =)

Applied Noise Ninja, Curves and Digital Velvia +3 on it. Hope you don't mind :) Nice shot btw, it was well worth restoring!!

EDIT - Knocked the Sat down -17.

<img src="http://members.verizon.net/rvillanu/images/looey_after.jpg">

Until you can get both butt cheeks in focus with that macro lens, I don't want to hear it! =P

I pulled down the demo plugin, and couldn't figure it out for the 10 minutes I was looking at it.

I hadn't heard of the velvia plug-in, either, that's pretty neat.

I really need to calibrate my monitor, time to get that spyder :(

EDIT: I lowered the Sat level.

I'm looking at the hillside on the left. It just doesn't look right.

but I think that's a feature of our Canon Scanner