tutorial 5 ( retouching an old photo)

After the previous tutorial, all students are given an old photo to do retouching. Frankly, the old photo looks REAL OLD. There has bad marks like photo crumpled and unclear image.

At first, I thought edit an crumpled old photo will scared me away. Well, just imagine you were facing the photo in a room ALONE. At the end, it's actually quite okay! Just treat the person in the old photo is your friend. It would help. Unless you hate the friend or the friend has been a gangster to you.

old photo

(before)

simple retouched photo

retouched + colorize photo

(after)

Steps of retouching an old photo:

(Remove unwanted elements)

1. Starter

File > Open the image

2. Crop

Use Rectangular Marquee Tool and drag to the area that you wanted to crop. Then, go to Image and choose Crop.

3. Healing Brush Tool J

Select Healing Brush Tool and hit Alt and Click on the area that you wish to be alike. Release Alt and start to brush (heal) the damaged image in the photo.

4. Clone Stamp Tool S

Some of the spots need to be cloned in order to make the photo more realistic. Again, enter Alt and at the same time Click on the area that you wish to be alike, release Alt and start to brush the unwanted area.

(Colorize)

1. Polygonal Lasso Tool L

First, choose Polygonal Lasso Tool and start to cut the wanted area, for example the hat.

2. Feather

Right Click, select Feather and change the pixels. I changed it to 2 pixels.

3. Layer via Copy

Right Click, select Layer via Copy.

4. Hue / Saturation

Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation. Click " Use Previous Layer to Create Clipping Mask" and hit OK. After that, click "Colorize" and start to adjust Hue, Saturation and Lightness into the your ideal color.

5. Bruch Tool B

Create a new layer, choose the color that you wanted and start to paint the image. After that, choose Overlay to make it more natural. Adjust the opacity if you want.

6. DONE

You will see the final effect. A fine old photo with colors on.

♥ Good luck! ♥