How does Photoshop fix old, faded black-and-white photos?

Now many families will have black-and-white photos, but these photos can not withstand years of erosion, gradually fade the color, like old memories gradually blurred. Many of the photos bear our memories, and even carry the lofty years of our ancestors.

How do you fix these pictures and let them continue to carry those memories? Photoshop can!

Here's a faded black-and-white photo:

This is the final effect of PS after the diagram

Here is how to explain the specific operation.

The first step, open the original image to color, there are several ways to color, you can go directly to the color, you can also lab channel to color, I like the lab channel to color, choose image-> mode->lab color, point channel panel, only retain the brightness channel, delete other channels, you can get a black-and-white photos as shown.

The second step, select menu: Image-> mode->rgb color, then start to repair, with repair tools, places face, background and clothes on the spots.

The third step, and then use the stamp tool to repair the face and clothes on the texture (old photo age too long, resulting in texture) opacity selection 30%, Flow selection 40%. Can be set according to personal preference.

The fourth step, now we see the hat on a large area of damage, this time to use the Smudge tool, strength choice 50%, according to the texture carefully smear, the defect part with this tool smear complete, and then use the Stamp tool to repair (set the previous), for the place to be portrayed with a Dodge or a deepening tool to describe, The exposure is 10, so a photo is basically refurbished.

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• PS Image Processing