- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom Perpetual version 6.14
- Operating System
- Windows 10
I have a 40+ year old photo album, containing about 60 colour photos which have faded badly - they are gradually transforming themselves from vibrant colour images to low-contrast monochrome. It's not too late to scan them in and use Lightroom to try to repair (some of) the damage, but I can't allow many more years to elapse before I do it.
Unfortunately I don't have the negatives, but I do have a handful of duplicate prints which have been stored differently, or maybe were better prints in the first place. Whatever the reason, the duplicates have survived much better than the album versions, so I have a reasonable idea what the album should look like. I'm wondering whether there is any way to tell Lightroom to analyse a pair of scanned images - one faded one from the album, and a matching unfaded duplicate - and produce a set of transformations that would transform the faded image into something resembling the unfaded one? My thinking is that if I could get such a set of transformations, maybe I could apply the same set of transformations to every image scanned from the album. Even if I still had to do some fine-tuning, it would save a lot of effort compared to processing each image manually.
I hope the above makes some sort of sense, but I'll be happy to explain further if necessary. Does it sound feasible? I'm using Lightroom-6.14 (on Windows 10), and I also have a very old copy of Photoshop Elements (version 10 I think).
Unfortunately I don't have the negatives, but I do have a handful of duplicate prints which have been stored differently, or maybe were better prints in the first place. Whatever the reason, the duplicates have survived much better than the album versions, so I have a reasonable idea what the album should look like. I'm wondering whether there is any way to tell Lightroom to analyse a pair of scanned images - one faded one from the album, and a matching unfaded duplicate - and produce a set of transformations that would transform the faded image into something resembling the unfaded one? My thinking is that if I could get such a set of transformations, maybe I could apply the same set of transformations to every image scanned from the album. Even if I still had to do some fine-tuning, it would save a lot of effort compared to processing each image manually.
I hope the above makes some sort of sense, but I'll be happy to explain further if necessary. Does it sound feasible? I'm using Lightroom-6.14 (on Windows 10), and I also have a very old copy of Photoshop Elements (version 10 I think).