Need Help from DU Photoshop experts

[Chovexani]

Okay, I am grossly ignorant about image editing and need some help from you talented DUers. I was cleaning out a closet and found some pictures my late uncle took when he was stationed in Korea in the 50s (he was an Air Force vet). These are some really nice B&W pictures (photography was a hobby of his) and I scanned them, but they are yellow around the edges and I was wondering what I could do to touch them up some. Here is a sample picture from the batch I scanned:



All the pictures have this kind of yellowing around the edges, some worse than others. I wanted to clean them up, but I didn't want to alter them too much because I would like to keep the vintage feel of the pictures. Any advice or help? Maybe an online tutorial to recommend? Thanks so much.

[tridim]

1. Desaturate > Despeckle > Add contrast > Adjust brightness

Then use the stamp tool to remove the lines.

[Chovexani]

3. Thanks!

I will give it a try, hopefully I won't muck them up too much...but that's why the Goddess gave us Undo, right? :)

[Lefta Dissenter]

2. OK, so I'm no help

but what a beautiful picture!!! The twinkle in his eye, the dimples... he just makes me want to smile! :D

[Chovexani]

5. There's some wonderful pictures

When I found them I just had to save them! My uncle was very proud of the time he served in Korea and used to tell me stories when I was little about all the people he met there.

I was thinking of making a little web page about it. It would give me something positive to think about with this Repug garbage going on right now, especially with the bandaid crap.

[joefree1]

4. Try image - adjustment - desaturate

This will take the color out for a black, white, and grey only look. Then you might want to warm up the photo by image - adjustment - hue/saturation and click the "colorize" box. Then play with the hue slider until you get the feeling you want.


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on edit: I'm not big on some of the other filters which will change the actual photo detail.

[Doctor Smith]

6. Try using just the red channel.

Click the "Channels" tab, and click on "Red", then select Image->Mode->Grayscale to delete the other channels.

[mopaul]

7. i tried a few tricks

using an older version of adobe 5.5. grayscale first, rubber stamp tool to steal the area just next to the stains and cover them. sharpening, a little contrast, etc.

[Chovexani]

8. That came out nice!

I will have to try it.

Thanks for the great tips. :)