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These things we do.

These things we do.. one of my favorite things to 'DO' with photoshop it to fix old photos.. the woman is my maternal grandmother and is from a photobooth.. the original is about 1-1.5" (25x45mm) the man is my paternal grandfather, the original is a 2x3 wallet size.. and dont bother trying the website, its not been paid for in some time.. after I realized that web design is not in my major skill set.. I forgot to pay for.. mmmmm? a year or two.. LoL

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  1. Very nice work! You have a talent for this.

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  2. Very impressive! Kevin, would you mind explaining in general terms: what did you do?

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  3. Generally the post scan work flow goes like this:
    I typically copy a layer and convert it to B/W, contrast and level adjustments, then retouch / replace the border retouching in towards the subject, typically getting finer and finer as I go.. then I will either change the color to sepia or match the tone of the original, that I still have copied as a layer, then use an airbrush set to colour to do large areas working down to smaller details, If I am using PS elements, I select the face and play with the ‘flesh tone’ filters, if not I typically select a nice flesh tone and airbrush the colour in. usually working much more saturated than I want and desaturate until I see what I like.. 
    for the photo of my grandfather I went through the same steps except left the saturation at a more modern looking level..

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  4. Great job. And thanks for the details.  :-)

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  5. And.. I work cheap.. if anyone needs such work done..

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  6. Kevin Vincent Thank you very much for this detailed workflow! For me - it is very educating!

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