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So in what is now my perpetual digitization project, I am doing some old photos, and I keep stumbling across some with the following issue.
But as a preface: In most cases my process is to scan (Epson V600) at 16 bit TIFF, pull into photoshop and apply curves to get both the dynamic range right and mostly the colors, the adjust as needed. Even some really horribly faded shots restore nicely.
Except there are a few that I think are all from the same camera or person or film -- all the same size, and all have the same strange look -- not nearly as faded looking, but kind of reddish, and...
In comparison to other shots from the same scene, all the blue is gone. I mean all of it. Or maybe more precisely it all changed to green. I can't enhance it at all. Notice the lady cutting the cake. I have numerous shots of people wearing blue, and all now are wearing green.
Trying to enhance the blue saturation or adjust the curve, have the wrong effect -- there is blue in the shot now (in that the blue tone curve has data), but it's spread around as though manufactured evenly somehow, that lady's blue dress has about the same blue as the red brick behind her.
Are there techniques I could be using to do this better, short of trying to figure out where the blue is and adding it locally, manually?
It's more curiosity than need really -- most of these shots I have others from the same event, and they are not great pictures anyway in most cases (this is one of the better ones). But it's just bizzare how the color completely changed, rather than just faded. I have shots that were basically monotone by eye that colored nicely. Just not these.
But as a preface: In most cases my process is to scan (Epson V600) at 16 bit TIFF, pull into photoshop and apply curves to get both the dynamic range right and mostly the colors, the adjust as needed. Even some really horribly faded shots restore nicely.
Except there are a few that I think are all from the same camera or person or film -- all the same size, and all have the same strange look -- not nearly as faded looking, but kind of reddish, and...
In comparison to other shots from the same scene, all the blue is gone. I mean all of it. Or maybe more precisely it all changed to green. I can't enhance it at all. Notice the lady cutting the cake. I have numerous shots of people wearing blue, and all now are wearing green.
Trying to enhance the blue saturation or adjust the curve, have the wrong effect -- there is blue in the shot now (in that the blue tone curve has data), but it's spread around as though manufactured evenly somehow, that lady's blue dress has about the same blue as the red brick behind her.
Are there techniques I could be using to do this better, short of trying to figure out where the blue is and adding it locally, manually?
It's more curiosity than need really -- most of these shots I have others from the same event, and they are not great pictures anyway in most cases (this is one of the better ones). But it's just bizzare how the color completely changed, rather than just faded. I have shots that were basically monotone by eye that colored nicely. Just not these.