Egorba Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 I want to remove stains from the photo, what's the easiest approach? Such as on uploaded images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robynmau Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 There's a couple of excellent YouTube videos on photo restoration available:-) I kept my restorations simple and used inpainting & cloning & healing, though I reckon some more experienced users could offer better options. My repairs were slow going but I was pretty happy with the results although the damage I repaired wasn't quite as extensive as you've got here. Good Luck & have fun cheers Robyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Repairing old photos really is a patience game, take snapshots using the Snapshots Panel (View > Studio > Snapshots) or save versions as you work through the repair that way when you make a good change you have a point to fall back on should you mess up. Before you start editing you could duplicate the layer so you keep the original layer and edit the duplicate layer, again as a fall back. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egorba Posted January 3, 2018 Author Share Posted January 3, 2018 Thank you, I understand that this is difficult. I corrected similar damage on other photos with inpainting & cloning & healing, but it is a very long way. I think, that it can be eliminated by adjusting layers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uuiop Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 It may be worth looking to see which colour channel of a layer shows the worst harm, and then work on that channel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egorba Posted January 4, 2018 Author Share Posted January 4, 2018 Сhanged the photo in black-and-white, and darkened the yellow and red channel. firstdefence 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Though the stains information is still there and visable among the pixel information. - Honestly this is a very difficult to restore example since the stains are huge and partly also covering hair and faces, further this old times picture isn't very sharp and pretty blurry/washed out. As far as you would apply some sharpening etc. the stain pixel information would be again more obvious there. And a good printer will still see and print those stain pixels So in sum up this picture would need and benefit more from a lot of manual fine tuning work and passion via the often hated and time consuming inpainting & cloning & healing tools etc. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 13 hours ago, Egorba said: Сhanged the photo in black-and-white, and darkened the yellow and red channel. Impressive start, I sometimes think the complete removal of marks/stains on old pictures almost spoils them, after-all it's part of the history of the picture, light damage and marks add "historic charm" for want of a better phrase, to a picture. Personally I wouldn't go much further than this as it would be; in my eyes, a detriment to the charm of the picture. It's like removing the patina of old furniture, how far do you go in restoration? Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egorba Posted January 5, 2018 Author Share Posted January 5, 2018 3 hours ago, firstdefence said: It's like removing the patina of old furniture, how far do you go in restoration? I think to finish. Maybe still I will add little changes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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