Digital Color Restoration.
Dave & Aunt Ruthie. Circa 1922
Dave & Aunt Ruthie digital restoration to black+white.
Silvia. Circa 1942
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Original hand colored photo.
A 2nd original photo was cut up for a collage. I converted to a b+w image & then added color using a smart color filter
Combining the two images in photoshop using the uniform from the first image and the face from the second image
Original 100 year old photo from a family collage.
The hardest part of color restoration is creating realistic flesh tones. After converting to a black+white image I apply photoshop's smart color filter. This gets me close. The rest of the work is hand painted in photoshop and hand cloned.
My first photoshop restoration done manually using the cloning tool. 1997.
Faded & Torn Black+White Print Circa 1958
Original 80 year old black+white damaged wedding photo.
Retouched & colorized in photoshop using multiple techniques. Including cloning, smart color filters, hand painting, noise reduction,
new exposure and sharpening.
1950's black+white vacation snapshot.
Sometimes you have to guess at the original colors.
I also cropped this photo to bring the family into the foreground.
Grandpa Dave & my sister. Circa 1962
