Use simple techniques to renovate old photos

Examples of effects:

old photos of the renovation, for PS Novice has a certain degree of difficulty, especially on-line tutorials are generally used in color masks and other more abstract and complex techniques to modify.  after groping, I found its practical PS "content recognition" fill technology ,"hue saturation" and "color balance", as well as the layer of "multiply" The most common problems can be solved by simple and intuitive techniques.

(First use a scanner or a better-performing digital camera (mobile phone) to remake and save old photos. ）

1, "Content recognition" filling technology:

this feature, which starts with the Photoshop CS5 version, allows us to quickly populate a selection with pixels that populate the selection by perceiving the content around the selection, so that the fill appears to be almost perfectly integrated with the surrounding colors and objects . , the fill result looks like it's true. This allows you to select a small portion of the old photo's breakage and blemishes for the content-aware fill to achieve the purpose of the fix.

2. "Transform" and "de-color"

A slight distortion of the image generated during the remake can be adjusted using the menu bar's edit---> Transform---> Skew or warp menu related actions. for yellowed old photos, use the menu bar's "image"---> "adjust"---> "de-Color" or "color balance" and "hue saturation" to manipulate the color of the control slices under these menus.

3, layer and "multiply" technology

multiply, that is, the current layer of color and scenery superimposed on the following layer to go. If the grassroots as a piece of paper, multiply, is to put another piece of content to press in. and the color of the current layer and the color of the base will also produce a different color. for the different parts of the old photos to build a separate layer, such as the establishment of "clothes", "hair", "skin" and other appropriate layers, and then choose the appropriate color to the base of the relevant parts of the detailed smear, you need to note that the color you apply will be mixed with the base color, So the color of the light and shade, hue, contrast should be reasonable collocation.

4. Patching and perfecting

after coloring the old photos, it will be found that because the color process due to manual lack of detail to produce some small areas of colour missing or deviation, should be appropriate tinkering, or hand-drawn with a brush tool. Fonts or details that are not clear enough in the original photo can be drawn manually. finally save the picture, you can still use the beautiful 美图秀秀and other relatively simple picture modification software to the picture color, color, lighting effects, etc. to achieve the final file you want.

Use simple techniques to renovate old photos