blahman
 

First off, i would highly recomend imagenomic noiseware pro :p http://www.imagenomic.com/products.aspx i'm sure with a bit of alternative searching if you know what i mean, you will find it. But its not the total answer, when you use median and gausian try it on channels ...ie have a look at the r,g and b channels and decide where the majority of the noise is coming from(often blue) by attacking the noise on each channel you wont soften the overall image as much.

i think the single most helpful tip i could give you is use the blur brush but set the mode to luminosity to work on the skin tones, that way you wont blur up the detail but it will nicely blend the luminosity levels.careful near high contrast areas like somebody standing in front of a white background. most jpeg overcomression can be blended with this method. what version of photoshop you using blahman? PS CS2 ver9 ...filter ..noise....reduce noise is a nice addition.

use .sharpen.. unsharp mask to pull back some edge detail don't set the radius to high tho else it will look like you traced around it with a HB pencil, 1.2 being a starter value increas with image size rarely will you go over 4 with a large image even. the rest is combo's of color balance (ctrl+b) levels (ctrl+L) selective color . image... adjust ..selective color.

to summarize the noiseware plugin is great for initial removal of bulk noise the harder work with the blur brush set to luminosity, and color correction which i belive you have a handle on already juudging from your previous restores :)

I appriciate the advice loopsta and puting it to good use, unfortunatly I use ver. 6 which I gotten 5years ago so I was unable to use that application. Well here's todays contribution.

Ellen revisited
 

Thought i'd have another go at this pic for fritzy ...blahman sorry if i sorta hijacked your thread, but it just seemed the most logical place to post it. i hope some of the PS tips were usefull to you, one other i didnt mention that i think will help you is to try working in LAB colorspace instead of just RGB. LAB has lightness(luminosity) and A+B instead of red green blue channels, the advantage is when you get a lot of luminance noise(such as jpg artifact) you can do some blurring on the luminance without blurring the overall image too much or blotchy colours found in a lot of overcompressed images, you can do a median on the A+B which wont effect your sharpness at all :)...anyhoo here 'tis

wow
 

Hey that picture looks like it was taken yesterday great work

Loop that is stunning. I never thought that one could be restored so well.

tnx
 

tnx for the compliments fritzy :0)

Loopsta, you do fine work. I tried contacting you through the instant message here. Probably you don't use the service?

With all due respect to your skill, I'd say this is half-restoration and half-airbrushing at best. You've taken freckles and moles off girls!

mebbee
 

bozo35, some truth in what you say but i see no rules laid down i just do what i think makes the image look better. Would you rather see jesica simpson on the cover of vogue without the tooth whitening pore blending soft focus and the 1001 other things done to make her look better ? a bad restore with the artifacts left in maybe so its truly amateur? my point being ...who decides what is enough and what is too much? and id guess to answer my own question...when whoever is doing the restore thinks so. you dont have to like it ! I know its difficult to convey any kind of emotions in text, so let me point out to you im really not peeved or anything by your comments as they are quite true(except maybe the "at best") but feel free to agree or disagree, i dont have any kind of agenda just enjoy doing this kind of thing

Thanks loopsta again for your feeback advice. It took at least a quarter off the time it usually takes me, and I really dig your insights of restoration I agree with alot of what you said on your previous comment, it's what you think of your work that counts and use constructive Criticism as advice instead of getting insulted. I personally admire people like you, I guess I'm trying to be the same way. Any way here is todays post I used every bit of your advice as well as my own..

I would say thats good work Blahman.

pics for you to restore - see what you can do with these

many thanks

bath
 

Blah ...pls say so if you would prefer i start another thread ...k !
heres bathtime without the measles :P

beach
 

'nother one

good work -any chance of having a try with the other lady in a bikini

other beach pic
 

did my best on this although it was pretty much fubar kaz

Sorry Kaz for the wait. I went away this weekend so I was unable to respond. Thank you Loopsta again for the assistance and I don't mind if you use this thread. Well enough of that here is my restoration of Kaz picture as well as a couple of my own. Thank you Kaz for the support I will restore more if you don't mind or anyone else if they like to.

Yes its an awesome thread!

Guys, A friend says its OK for me to get some enhancements of his wife's nudes. Can you guys give these a try?

Here is one more. Is anyone able to help with these?

good work on my pics

hola
 

yeah ill have a go when ive finished your "other pics" fritzy...lol ill be done soon had a lil break :P

Can these be improved? Develpoped at the store.

Folks, anyone good at retouching developed at the store pics? They were a thrill to get deloped. We were both pretty nervous.

Hello to all my friends my return
 

It's been a long time since I posted something here and I want to apologize to all who would normaly visit this thread for my update and responses especialy to Firtzy, loopsta and Kaz. Thank you all that keep this thread alive and here are a couple of my photoshop manipulations. I hope these women don't mind that I used their picture for my photoshop creations. I find these women in paticular fasinating so I used their pictures for my art.

Thank YOU

Blahman, good work and I hope we all get to see more soon

Thanks Fritzy I will honor your request and post more. Heres todays post, I will post more in the future.

I retouched some of the pics posted on this thread. I hope you enjoy
Thanx

Blahman.... I love it. Thank you!

Dear LatinaMexicana

I'm sorry it took me forever to respond, work was brutal so I didn't have time to do any restoratioins these past days but here is my first restoration. I will attend to the other pics posted on this forum in the near future.

Thanx
Blah

Tuesday's post

Blahman, excellent work again. Thank you!

uhh! yet another post

can you do anything with this one

i remeber this from a year ago :P
there ya go kaz

It's nice of you guys to pay me a visit, and if you want to post more pics for me to retouch I would love that. I'm still trying to master photo restoration, munipulation. Here is my post for 9/29/07.

Hello everyone. here's 9/30th's post

Here's my atempt yet again to apply color to a b/w photo. I received your email fritzzy but I have not yet had a chance to reply, since I had a crap load of things to do. I will tend to your message as soon as I can.

Thank U
Blahman

For the thread!
 

For those of you who are still intrested. I know this thread dosen't get as many hits but that besides the point, what ever few hits I get thats all I need. And Frittzy I'm sorry I never responed to you I've been pretty depressed these last couple of months I'm still getting over it. Anyway heres a couple of my photoshop works.

I want to give a shout to all my viewers. Here it goes.....
(I will post both the original and restored at the same time.)
enjoy.