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Below the cut, you will find a photo of me as a one-year-old.
Thanks to the foibles of the physical world, this photo is unavoidably 27 years old. It has aged even worse than I have.
My guess is that the cyan channel has almost entirely vanished. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to scale along the cyan (rather than the red, green or blue) axis in GIMP.
Do any of you know of better tools? Can you make me look more like a pink-cheeked, blonde-haired, blue-eyed baby in a garden, and less like a pink-cheeked, blonde-haired, blue-eyed baby at the bottom of a quite deep pool of not very transparent brown gunk?
Even better would be some kind of tool which I could apply to the several albums of photos of that age that Mum has, without too much individual per-photo effort: I'm happy to line up the album, snap away with macro lens and perspective-correct back to photo shape afterwards, but more than tens of minutes per photo I don't think I can manage.
edit: Mum has negatives for these, but it's not clear the colours are very much better on the negatives; I can see reds and greens, but inverse-blues get hidden in the brown of the negative. Also I have no negative-scanner.

Thanks to the foibles of the physical world, this photo is unavoidably 27 years old. It has aged even worse than I have.
My guess is that the cyan channel has almost entirely vanished. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to scale along the cyan (rather than the red, green or blue) axis in GIMP.
Do any of you know of better tools? Can you make me look more like a pink-cheeked, blonde-haired, blue-eyed baby in a garden, and less like a pink-cheeked, blonde-haired, blue-eyed baby at the bottom of a quite deep pool of not very transparent brown gunk?
Even better would be some kind of tool which I could apply to the several albums of photos of that age that Mum has, without too much individual per-photo effort: I'm happy to line up the album, snap away with macro lens and perspective-correct back to photo shape afterwards, but more than tens of minutes per photo I don't think I can manage.
edit: Mum has negatives for these, but it's not clear the colours are very much better on the negatives; I can see reds and greens, but inverse-blues get hidden in the brown of the negative. Also I have no negative-scanner.

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Date: 2005-10-30 06:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-30 06:39 pm (UTC)A bit of fiddling on the colour balance axes, particularly more cyan and blue, and then some HSV fettling, and some Levels fiddling to finish. I'm afraid it's not perfect, and I can't suggests a terribly useful way of automating it - you could use photoshop macro-thingies, but I think it's likely to be terribly subjective image-to-image.
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Date: 2005-10-30 06:55 pm (UTC)Auto levels:
Further tweaking:
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Date: 2005-10-30 08:44 pm (UTC)Here's my 30-second fixup version -- using Applied Science Fiction! Specfically, their "Digital ROC" photoshop plugin. The version in my new scanner is even better, so taking the negative to somebody with a scanner supporting it would probably do even better (I think it gets raw scan info and does clever stuff with it).
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