vpkumar Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 I have been searching tutorials and videos on how to repair an old damaged document in Affinity photo and haven't found a good one. I did see some in Photoshop but then the levels and curves tool in Photoshop is different and has 3 dropper tools. I would be grateful if some one gives me a reference on how to repair an old damaged document. Thanking you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee_T Posted August 17, 2022 Staff Share Posted August 17, 2022 Hi vpkumar, This tutorial should help you out, it seems to cover most of the basics for this type of work. Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 In addition to the advice above, “damaged” could mean lots of different things and your image could have lots of different types of “damage” at the same time. It would help us greatly if you can give us a visual example, preferably the whole image if you can share it in public, and explain which parts of it you wanted to ‘fix’. The more detail you give us the better we can help. Lee_T and vpkumar 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpkumar Posted August 18, 2022 Author Share Posted August 18, 2022 I have seen the video by Lee. It is very good and useful. Regarding the document repair I am attaching the document. The problem area is selection of background and there some torn pieces which have to be matched. In Photoshop I find in the Levels tool there are 3 color pickers which are very useful. Can anyone tell me some steps to repair those damaged portions. I will be grateful. I am as yet a newbie , though I have been practicing in Photoshop and now switched to Affinity photo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smadell Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 This should be a very, very straightforward problem for at least 75% of the way. Very conveniently, your document has black ink on a colored background. As I understand it, you want to work on the background (only) by selecting it. The easy way to get you most of the way there is to use Blend Ranges. Open the document into a layer (called "Background") and immediately click the gear icon at the top of the Layers panel. What you want to do is to show only the blacks and hide everything else. The first screenshot (below) shows you how I've done this. Next, i just put a Fill layer below the "Background" layer so that there is something with the desired color back there. You could use a paper texture, or just about anything you like. Now, you just have some clean-up to do on the "Background" layer (getting rid of the of the errant marks) and filling in some of the missing text, dots, and so forth. Getting to this point, though, should take no more than a few minutes, at most. vpkumar and Old Bruce 2 Quote Affinity Photo 2, Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2 (latest retail versions) - desktop & iPad Culling - FastRawViewer; Raw Developer - Capture One Pro; Asset Management - Photo Supreme Mac Studio with M2 Max (2023}; 64 GB RAM; macOS 13 (Ventura); Mac Studio Display - iPad Air 4th Gen; iPadOS 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpkumar Posted August 19, 2022 Author Share Posted August 19, 2022 Many many thanks. You are an expert. Actually I havent used blend options till now. I have to find some tutorials on the full use of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smadell Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Thank you, @vpkumar - I'm glad this helped. Quote Affinity Photo 2, Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2 (latest retail versions) - desktop & iPad Culling - FastRawViewer; Raw Developer - Capture One Pro; Asset Management - Photo Supreme Mac Studio with M2 Max (2023}; 64 GB RAM; macOS 13 (Ventura); Mac Studio Display - iPad Air 4th Gen; iPadOS 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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