Fixing white washed pictures
Subba Rao
I have some digital photos from Thanksgiving day. Most of them turned out
great.
I was using the flash on all the pictures. Some pictures have the subjects
white washed. How do I repair these white washed pictures and restore their
natural skin tones?
Thank you in advance.
PS - I use GIMP tool on Linux and Windows to edit the images.
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Subba Rao
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Pierre Renault
>I have some digital photos [...]
The rec.photo.* groups discuss traditional, i.e. silver-based, photography.
I'd be surprised if anyone here can help you.
Non-digitially oriented cross-posting removed.
Pierre
Chris
which are whitewashed.
If on screen images are ok take the prints back to be redone.
Chris
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Leonard Evens
<sai...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some digital photos from Thanksgiving day. Most of them turned
> out great.
> I was using the flash on all the pictures. Some pictures have the
> subjects white washed. How do I repair these white washed pictures and
> restore their natural skin tones?
If the skin tones were so overexposed that they were pure white (values
255 for RGB) there isn't anything you can do with the usual tools such as
levels and curves. You could of course try to paint in appropriate skin
tones, but the results would depend on your artistic abilities.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> PS - I use GIMP tool on Linux and Windows to edit the images.
>
> --
> Subba Rao
> sai...@attglobal.net
>
>
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Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
cdcochran
One way to help bring back over exposed photos is to use layers in
your photo editor and copy the image to the clipboard several times and
make each a separate layer. Align each exactly the same as the original
and then "flatten" or save in a format which will combine all layers
into a single photo. Of course your results will vary depending on how
much is in the original photo.
Chuck
Kevin McMurtrie
Ironicly, an in-camera flash usually makes for the best pictures
outdoors on sunny days. Your photos will only be repairable to a
limited degree. Anything that is clipped is lost unless you want to
repaint those areas by hand. Very bright, but not clipped, areas can be
partially restored at the cost of increased noise.
Use a tool which lets you adjust levels on a curve. Make a sharp drop
at white then straighten the curve on the remaining way towards black.
Also, if you can filter by color, filter out some light grey.
Next time you're indoors with an in-camera flash, make the room as
bright as possible. Turn off the flash if you can hold the camera still
enough for the increased exposure time. If you do use a flash, try to
compose pictures with as little depth as possible so the lighting is
even.
If you have a fancy camera, set the shutter speed to the slowest time
that doesn't give you motion blur, open up the aperature to the max, and
use a fill flash. Most of your exposure will be from soft ambiant
lighting but the flash will fire just enough to expose the photo
correctly. It works nicely on my Oly 4040.
Roland Karlsson
> One way to help bring back over exposed photos is to use layers in
> your photo editor and copy the image to the clipboard several times and
> make each a separate layer. Align each exactly the same as the original
> and then "flatten" or save in a format which will combine all layers
> into a single photo. Of course your results will vary depending on how
> much is in the original photo.
Can you please motivate why you suggest such a complicated procedure?
(1) why make duplicates at all and if making duplicates (2) why
use the clipboard. Duplicates are most easily made by making
duplicate layers, if you need duplicates. Which you don't of course.
You can just use "curves" in the image menu.
Roland
Xarry Gounopoulos
> In article <3bff8...@news1.prserv.net>,
> "Subba Rao" <sai...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have some digital photos from Thanksgiving day. Most of them turned out
> >great.
> >I was using the flash on all the pictures. Some pictures have the subjects
> >white washed. How do I repair these white washed pictures and restore their
> >natural skin tones?
> >
> >Thank you in advance.
> >
> >PS - I use GIMP tool on Linux and Windows to edit the images.
> >
> >--
> >Subba Rao
> >sai...@attglobal.net
> >
> >
>
with the opacity set in whatever you think is appropiate.
Or if details exist in the bright areas (highlights) make a layer mask in the
OTHER areas(so become untouched) AND with a andjustment Layer set to LEVELS fix
the washed areas moving the Midle slider to the right)
Hope this help.Sorry about my english.Bye
Todd
bit JPEG. It's easy to blow out highlight areas in high contrast
situations. If not, you could tweak them in a digital imaging program.
If you're familiar with Photoshop, that would be the best way to go. You
can also download Paint Shop Pro for a free 30 day trial. It's very similar
to Photoshop and you can adjust the brightness, contrast, color balance, and
levels.
Todd Adams
http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=470802
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