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Digital Restoration from Start to Finish, 2nd Edition

Name: Digital Restoration from Start to Finish, 2nd Edition
Author: Ctein
ISBN: 9781136098130

by Ctein

April 2013

Intermediate to advanced

432 pages

16h 32m

English

Focal Press

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Cover
Halftitle
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
How-To’s
Preface
Introduction
Why Restore Digitally?About This BookAbout Other BooksKeeping in TouchAcknowledgmentsAbout the Author
Quick Diagnosis Guide to Restoration
1. The Big Picture
Who Are You, and Whose Expectations Matter? Who Are You Trying to Make Happy? Are You Trying to Recreate an Historically Accurate Photograph? How Important Is the Photograph, and How Much Scrutiny Might It Be Subject To? How Big Will the Restoration Be? The Art (and Craft) of Restoration Restoring Tone Restoring Color Fine-Detail Repairs and Cleanup Major Damage Repairs Repairing Uneven Damage Fooling Around A Modest Taxonomy of Restoration Prints Slides Negatives Newspaper Clippings Take Your Time

2. Hardware for Restoration Work
The Computer Memory Hard Drives Monitor Tablets Color Management and ColorMunki Backup and Long-Term Storage Scanners Printers
3. Software for Restoration
Working Around Photoshop Photoshop CS4 Photoshop Performance Enhancement All About Memory Photoshop Elements 6 (Mac), 7 (Win) Picture Window Pro v5 Plug-Ins ContrastMaster PhotoLift $40; Fluid Mask 3 $149; Noise Reduction Noiseware Professional Bundle $69.95–79.95; Noise Ninja Pro $79.95; Polaroid Dust & Scratches Removal FocusFixer v2 $99.95; Focus Magic PhotoTune 2 $159.95; AKVIS Coloriage
4. Getting the Photo into the Computer
Introduction Preparation and Cleaning Scanning Prints: Maximize Your Information by Getting the Tones Right Is 16-Bit Mode Really Necessary? Pulling in the Color Scanning Halftones How to Scan B&W Film and Glass Plates Scanning Color Film Resolution Decisions Rephotography Chapter 4: Getting the Photo into the ComputerHow to unmount a slideHow to scan a faded B&W printHow to scan a dark B&W printHow to convert an RGB scan to grayscaleHow to improve color with a good scanHow to scan a magazine or newspaper illustrationHow to inspect very dark parts of a scanHow to scan color negativesHow to determine what resolution to scan atHow to photograph tarnished or textured prints
5. Restoring Tone
What Makes a Good Print? Curves The Shadow/Highlight Adjustment How to Improve a Copy Print How to Correct Uneven Exposure How to Repair Uneven Density: Dodge and Burn with Masked Adjustment Layers Soft-Light Dodging and Burning-in Layers Enhancing Almost-Blank Photos Making Extreme Tone Changes Without Distorting Colors Fixing Harsh Shadows on Faces Chapter 5: Restoring ToneHow to evaluate contrast with a histogramHow to change overall brightness and contrast with CurvesHow to use sample points with CurvesHow to change black and white points and avoid clipping with CurvesHow to make a print look more brilliant and snappy by adding contrast to midtones with CurvesHow to lighten or darken a print with CurvesHow to bring out shadow tones with CurvesHow to improve snapshots with the Shadow/Highlight adjustmentHow to improve a copy print with the Shadow/Highlight adjustmentHow to improve a copy print with ContrastMasterHow to correct uneven exposure with a Curves adjustment layerHow to do dodging and burning in with masked Curves adjustment layersHow to improve contrast and highlight detail with a masked Curves adjustment layerHow to dodge and burn with a soft-light layerHow to recover a nearly blank photograph with Multiply blendsHow to improve contrast without making colors too saturatedHow to fix harsh shadows on facesHow to use the History Brush as a dodging toolHow to retouch faces with a masked Curves adjustment layer
6. Restoring Color
What Makes a Good Print? Getting the Color Right (Semi-)Automatically Color Correcting in Layers Getting Better Skin Tones The Layered Approach The Airbrushed Layers Approach Correcting Skin Tones with Color Airbrushing Hand-Tinting Photographs Using Masked Layers to Hand-Tint Photographs Hand-Tinting with Coloriage Fixing Chromatic Aberration with Picture Window Fixing Color Stains and Development Marks Chapter 6: Restoring ColorHow to make a scan that produces good colorHow to correct color with the midtone eyedropperHow to correct color with Picture Window Color BalanceHow to correct color using Auto Color optionsHow to use layers to correct color separately from luminosityHow to improve color with Curves and Vibrance or Hue/Saturation adjustment layersHow to make skin tones smoother with Curves adjustment layersHow to retouch skin tones with an airbrush layerHow to refine skin tones with a Hue/Saturation adjustment layerHow to refine skin tones with SkinTune 2How to fix a faded school portrait with airbrush layersHow to create neutral tones with a Hue/Saturation layerHow to hand-tint a photograph with masked layersHow to hand-tint a photograph with AKVIS ColoriageHow to remove color fringes from a photographHow to improve color with Color Mechanic
7. Making Masks
Why Mask? Many Ways to the Same Goal Isolating Cracks Making Masks from Colors Exaggerating Color to Select Tarnish Exaggerating Color to Select Scratches Exaggerating Color for Hand-Tinting Masks Five Ways to Mask Cellophane Tape Damage Chapter 7: Making MasksHow to eliminate tarnish from a photographHow to make a mask by selecting cracks with the Find Edges filterHow to select cracks with the Picture Window Edge toolHow to enhance cracks for selectionHow to select cracks with the help of a noise reduction programHow to select tarnished parts of a photographHow to use Channel Mixer to emphasize damage for masksHow to select damage by color with Image CalculationsHow to select cellophane tape damage by color rangeHow to use Mask Pro to select cellophane tape damageHow to create a damage selection mask from a single color channel
8. Damage Control
Introduction Simple Spotting Polishing out the Scratches Finding Scratches with the Find Edges Filter Minimizing Scratches with Noise Reduction and Layer Blends Minimizing Scratches with Masks and Curves Enhancing Color to Attack Scratches Filling in the Cracks Removing Fine Cracks with a Mask and Median Filtering Removing Fine Cracks in Stages with Repeated Median Filtering Whittling away at Wide Cracks Paving over Tears and Holes Using the Spot Healing Brush Clearing the Debris Eliminating Tarnish Picking the Right Color for B&W Dealing with Textured Prints Repairing Mildew Chapter 8: Damage ControlHow to clean up dust and scratches from a scan with the History BrushHow to clean up dust and scratches from a scan with masked layersHow to repair a badly scratched slideHow to minimize scratches using noise reduction and blended layersHow to minimize scratches in a print with CurvesHow to minimize scratches in a print with multiple Curves adjustment layersHow to minimize scratches with color channels and channel mixingHow to fill in cracks in a print with a maskHow to repair cracks in stages with Median filteringHow to repair large cracks with repeated masking and filteringHow to remove chemical and water spotsHow to eliminate tarnish and silvered-out spotsHow to minimize tape stainsHow to remove print surface textures using Neat ImageHow to remove print surface textures using Picture WindowHow to erase mildew spots using the History BrushHow to erase mildew spots using masked layers and Smart Filters
9. Tips, Tricks, and Enhancements
Introduction Save Time by Using Your Keyboard and Mouse Capturing a Long Density Range in a Scan by Stacking Images Descreening a Halftone Getting the Most Detail out of Your Photograph What Do You Do with a Tintype? Stitching Scans Together Improving the Original Chapter 9: Tips, Tricks, and EnhancementsHow to scan very contrasty photographs with Picture WindowHow to eliminate the dots from newspaper photographsHow to increase sharpness and fine detail in a photographHow to make a photograph look like a tintypeHow to combine scans to make one large photograph
10. Beautification
Introduction Viewing Your Restorations at Arm’s Length Improving Tonality and Making the Photo More Lively Unsharp Masking ContrastMaster Detexturing the Photo Dust & Scratches Filter Sharpen and Smooth … or Vice Versa Chapter 10: BeautificationHow to create a merged “finished restoration” layerHow to improve tonality with Unsharp MaskingHow to use Dust & Scratches to shave off the worst noise
11. Examples
Introduction Example 1: Repairing an Old Glass Plate Example 2: Repairing Color with a Good Scan Example 3: Mother and Child—A “Legacy” Restoration Job Example 4: A Faded E-1 Slide Example 5: Reassembling an Astronomical Glass Plate Example 6: A Rare and Historic Old Polaroid Example 7: Fixing a Photocopied Halftone Example 8: Restoring an Almost-Blank Photo Example 9: Restoring a Very Old and Large Print Example 10: Restoring a Very Yellowed B&W Snapshot Example 11: Restoring Faded Color Snapshots
12. Printing Tips
What’s the Right Printer? Choosing Your Print Media for Permanence Profiling the Printer Cathy’s Profiles ColorMunki Toning the B&W Print Display and Storage Conditions for Maximum Print Longevity
13. Archiving and Permanence
The Special Needs of Digital Storage In a Material World Picking up the Pieces It’s Just a Matter of Time All Storage Is Not Created Equal Can You Hear Me Now? Babel Fish Final Words
Index

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Preface

What’s New in the Second Edition

More than one-third of the text in this second edition of Digital Restoration is new material, but none of the information from the first edition has been lost. Older material that I cut out to make room for the new is available online at http://photo-repair.com/dr1.htm in the form of Acrobat files. I extracted these from the PDF proofs of the first edition of the book, so it’s really like you’re getting a substantially bigger book (for no additional money).

What’s new in this edition? Here are the highlights:

Chapter 3, “Software for Restoration,” is entirely new. I’m using many new plug-ins and third-party software that really improve my productivity and make it even easier for me to do great restorations, ...

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Digital Restoration from Start to Finish, 2nd Edition

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