Come on Photoshopers! [Contest, Who can restore the Best!]

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MainFramed

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I have some pictures from the 1800's there very light....like white light, not light in weight. Anyone know of a good way in photoshop to restore these kind of pics?

[UPDATE]

OK. Here are all of the pics im working on, you don't have to restore all....just which ever one you want, if you want of course.

Photo One
Photo Two
Photo Three
Photo Four

Let's see what ya got. :)

NOTE: Photo Three will be the toughest imo, try that one... :p
 
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IshmaelLeaver

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It's been a while since I've done Photoshop restorations, but I remember building up semi-transparent layers to regain detail on blown-out images.

If you are scanning in as grayscale, you can use Levels or Curves to set the highlight, shadow, and midtones.
 
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UNCjigga

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Those pics are too low-res for restoration work. Anyways I'm just a n00b. I posted a baby pic of me awhile back that I restored...lets see if I can find it.

*edit* found those pics!

Original pic

Restored

Basically did a bit of color work (both global and spot), replaced the ripped-out eye, cleaned up some of the red spots, smoothed it out.
 
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stev0

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Originally posted by: Jigga
Those pics are too low-res for restoration work. Anyways I'm just a n00b. I posted a baby pic of me awhile back that I restored...lets see if I can find it.

*edit* found those pics!

Original pic

Restored

Basically did a bit of color work (both global and spot), replaced the ripped-out eye, cleaned up some of the red spots, smoothed it out.
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dayum
 
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MainFramed

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Adul

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Originally posted by: BaboonGuy
Originally posted by: MainFramed
Originally posted by: BaboonGuy
http://home.comcast.net/~alex.kim/restoration.jpg
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now im curious... how did you do that?
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really simple. just go to photoshop, image->adjustments->auto levels

for bw pictures you can also play around with the levels and curves and really give them some nice contrast.
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It really gets interesting when you start adding layer adjustments, various level of blur, sharpness, levels, etc :p
 
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