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Old 11th November 2011, 10:51   #1
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Is it posible to restore a sun faded photo.
I have a couple of picture that were taken on stanley park, i have left them as i thought they were un savable
can they be saved.
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Old 11th November 2011, 11:41   #2
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You could scan the pics and play with the scans in something like Photoshop Elements. Should be able to make some improvement.
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Old 11th November 2011, 11:50   #3
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You could scan the pics and play with the scans in something like Photoshop Elements. Should be able to make some improvement.
I've done this with old photos and slides. You only need a hint of the original colours to get good results.
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Old 11th November 2011, 14:59   #4
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Scan them upload them here, see what people can do. I have full photoshop, i can try.
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Scan them upload them here, see what people can do. I have full photoshop, i can try.
cheers lads for the advice, the best photo software i have is MSpaint lol

on the pics, you can see where they have been in a frame, they were taken with 4mp camera

you can see an element of how much they faded via the edges that were covered by the frame

I lost some pics a few years back and these were a couple of the ones that were unrecoverable on the external hdd

how ever you can make them better i would appreciate it



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Heres a couple of before and afters of me with my mother and sister from 50 years ago. It's easy to achieve with Photoshop. Cleaning up any creases, scratches and other marks is much more time consuming.
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I dont have photoshop

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on the pics, you can see where they have been in a frame
You posted your pics while I was resizing my images to post, baconbuttyman. This could take some time! Would be easiest to start by cropping the pics to where the edges of the frame came, to try to get consistency when adjusting the colours.
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Whats really hard is the border and the pigment hasnt faded evenly in the faded area. Some red has remained in the dark areas so when you correct red globally it becomes over bright.

Here is a VERY rough and dirty correction, so dont think this is the best that can be done!. Thankfully some detail recovery is possible.
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Whats really hard is the border and the pigment hasnt faded evenly in the faded area. Some red has remained in the dark areas so when you correct red globally it becomes over bright.

Here is a VERY rough and dirty correction, so dont think this is the best that can be done!. Thankfully some detail recovery is possible.
looking better , shame i left it so long,
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