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Correcting Old Photo's Color

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Open the photograph you want to restorate.

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Then go to Image-Adjustments-Auto color.

Surprise! Now it looks much better, but not realistic…

Desaturate a little bit the steins and remove defects with the Stamp tool.

Image-Adjustments-Hue/Saturation. Set Saturation to 36.

Image-Adjustments-Variations-Midtones. Add some yellow, cyan and red. Increase the saturation.

Select the trees and desaturate them using Hue/Saturation (set the saturation to -50).

Select-Color Range-click on a roof and make sure, that all the roofs are selected after you click OK.

Hue/Saturation: Hue 17, Saturation 5.

Deselect and then go to Hue/Saturation again:

Magentas-Saturation -(minus)100.

Filter-Sharpen-Unsharp mask. Amount 50 Radius 0.6. OK.

Select the sky, a little bit desaturate it and add some cyan, blue and yellow to the sky in Variations.

Image-Adjustments-Color Balance

Midtones-Color levels: +19 +17 -1
Highlights-Color levels: +1 +1 +1
Shadows-Color levels: -3 0 -6

That's all!

Correcting Old Photo's Color



About the Author:

Let me introduce myself. My name is Andrey Igorevich Chernov, or just Andrey. I was born on March 25 1990 In Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia (near China and North Korea). Started to experimenting with Adobe Photoshop and Corel Draw since 1998. Yes, it was very amusing. Now I work as a web designer and run my Photoshop tutorials blog at verbaska.com.
These tutorials also appear on webdesign.org. Many thanks to the site's team who published them!