Emar Posted August 8, 2021 Posted August 8, 2021 Hi, I need to lighten 1 face on an old B/W photo, how do I do this please? The face is on the far left of the photo. Quote
Etheiy Posted August 8, 2021 Posted August 8, 2021 It won't sharpen it at all, but have you tried using the Dodge tool? You would need to be working with a rasterised image. It may introduce some artifacts/weird pixels. Very rough and quick test of the dodge tool on the child's face attached. You would want to be more careful around the edges than I have been, as it will dodge/lighten all pixels and result in this kind of halo you can see appearing in this test. Quote
walt.farrell Posted August 8, 2021 Posted August 8, 2021 36 minutes ago, Emar said: I need to lighten 1 face You'll probably also want to lighten her arm. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Emar Posted August 8, 2021 Author Posted August 8, 2021 30 minutes ago, Etheiy said: It won't sharpen it at all, but have you tried using the Dodge tool? You would need to be working with a rasterised image. It may introduce some artifacts/weird pixels. Very rough and quick test of the dodge tool on the child's face attached. You would want to be more careful around the edges than I have been, as it will dodge/lighten all pixels and result in this kind of halo you can see appearing in this test. Quote
Etheiy Posted August 8, 2021 Posted August 8, 2021 As discussed in DM, here's an example of another experiment I tried by using a gradient layer and setting it to 'Vivid Light' blend mode. Note that to get it to look vaguely correct the gradient actually starts off the edge of the image (otherwise it obfuscated the child's features too much). Maybe some experimentation along these lines could give you better results? There's a lot of different blend modes and some come out pretty odd. This one seemed to work best, but.. ..I wasn't sure it looked right, so I thought to suggest dodge (with more time than my quick example included) might be a better bet. Quote
Etheiy Posted August 8, 2021 Posted August 8, 2021 Oh, one last thing just occurred; I also tried duplicating the image, then with the new version, I used a gradient to erase most of it and keep the child's face and the side of the image that is dark. Then I set this new layer to the blend mode 'Add' and it lightens a bit more nicely than using a white gradient. I think this turned out better than the previous attempt, but again, I think it requires a little more experimentation to get it quite right: Quote
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