Nostalgia & History > One click and it's OK

Take an old slide that's gone red...drag it in Photoshop...click on IMAGE-drag the mouse down to ADJUST then move it to the right to AUTO COLOR and release....it's OK.
An Interurben Press slide I bought at a swap meet over 30 years ago....a view at Indio on a "farewell to steam" outing. 1956.

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Not Indio -- looks like Garnet.

gyralite Wrote:
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> Not Indio -- looks like Garnet.

Could be... but the slide says Indio.

I hope you don't mind. Here is 5 more min. in Photoshop.

Mr. MRL

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Yes, the second mod helps a bit. The automatic correction features in Photoshop tend to overshoot the mark a bit. In this example, a slide that has faded to mostly magenta needs to have the other colors boosted to compensate, however the auto feature boosted the green too much, leaving the ties and smoke with a green tint. Mr. MRL's cut then balanced out the green.

One thing you can do to solve this is to copy the main layer, apply the correction to the copy layer, and then recombine the layers by adjusting the opacity of the corrected layer down to about 70-85%. You can adjust the opacity of the corrected layer manually until you get the thing just right. Follow up with a "levels" adjustment layer, use "auto levels" and then adjust the opacity of that layer down to about 75% to keep from blocking up the highlights and shadows (the auto feature overshoots the mark again here, so tone it down a bit).

Combining layers that way in photoshop is a powerful tool.

BTW, that is an amazing save on that image !!

- Kit

CimaScrambler Wrote:
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> Yes, the second mod helps a bit. The automatic
> correction features in Photoshop tend to overshoot
> the mark a bit. In this example, a slide that has
> faded to mostly magenta needs to have the other
> colors boosted to compensate, however the auto
> feature boosted the green too much, leaving the
> ties and smoke with a green tint. Mr. MRL's cut
> then balanced out the green.
>
> One thing you can do to solve this is to copy the
> main layer, apply the correction to the copy
> layer, and then recombine the layers by adjusting
> the opacity of the corrected layer down to about
> 70-85%. You can adjust the opacity of the
> corrected layer manually until you get the thing
> just right. Follow up with a "levels" adjustment
> layer, use "auto levels" and then adjust the
> opacity of that layer down to about 75% to keep
> from blocking up the highlights and shadows (the
> auto feature overshoots the mark again here, so
> tone it down a bit).
>
> Combining layers that way in photoshop is a
> powerful tool.
>
> BTW, that is an amazing save on that image !!
>
> - Kit
I said one click and it's OK...I didn't say great.
Chris

Can photoshop fix the tie spacing on the track in the foreground? What's up with that?

Gonut

CimaScrambler Wrote:

> Yes, the second mod helps a bit. The automatic
> correction features in Photoshop tend to overshoot
> the mark a bit. In this example, a slide that has
> faded to mostly magenta needs to have the other
> colors boosted to compensate, however the auto
> feature boosted the green too much, leaving the
> ties and smoke with a green tint. Mr. MRL's cut
> then balanced out the green.

I'd be interested to know just what steps he took. The auto correction did give a green cast to some parts of the image, but the tree is still way too magenta, as is the lower portion of the hills and the smoke. Mr.MRL's fix took care of both, along with the blue-black sky.

Gonut1 wrote:

> Can photoshop fix the tie spacing on the track in the foreground? What's up with that?

"It was all crap back then?"

Evan_Werkema Wrote:
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> I'd be interested to know just what steps he took.
> The auto correction did give a green cast to some
> parts of the image, but the tree is still way too
> magenta, as is the lower portion of the hills and
> the smoke. Mr.MRL's fix took care of both, along
> with the blue-black sky.
>


Well, first I 2x the resolution to give the PS software more info to play wth. Then I dodged the four corners, the projector glow thing was a little wierd. I went in to some of the color details, kicked up the cyan & magenta, knocked back the green. Then selected the tree in the foreground and turned it back to tree color. Then I removed the wires, and cropped some of the sky. There was also the removal of some specks on the slide. Finally, a dash of Gaussian blur, sharpening, unsharpened mask, & a high pass.

Yep, abut 5 min. work.

Mr. MRL - It is still a great original image to work with.

engine3420 Wrote:
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> gyralite Wrote:
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> > Not Indio -- looks like Garnet.
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> Could be... but the slide says Indio.


Sorry, but the slide is wrong and Mr. Gyralite is correct. I spent many hours there waiting for westbound trains to show up to help west over Beaumont hill. Lots of Garnet stones to find if you know where to look.

JDE