Old Photo Restoration Photoshop Tutorial | Restore Old Photo to a new | Photoshop Tutorial

and we'll get into the first exercise so if we go into the unit one overview we see what we're covering this um unit and it's basically all the repair tools that photoshop has and then we'll also be learning how to colorize photos so we're going to be taking um some in this first exercise a damaged black and white photo and we'll be following along with the tutorial to [Music] repair it and then we'll be adding color to it so as you see we'll be learning about the healing brush tool the patch tool spot healing brush tool clone stamping using layers copying selections using the transformations tool blending tools layer masks opacity noise reduction sharpening and adjustment curves okay and all that is contained in the first exercise and then most of that you probably will end up using for your first project okay so let's just click the next button here and i'm going to zoom in so it's easier to see this on the screen so in this exercise we restore an old damaged black and white photo and then add color into it okay so step one download this jpeg file and save it to your files i'm gonna go ahead and just save it and find it okay so this is the image we've got uh this old ripped photograph so it's got a big rip coming across the top there's some spotting part of the photo is actually ripped where the guy's face is so that'll be fun to replace part of his forehead and eye but so there's our image let me just go ahead and see extra exercise one let's put this guy on the desktop okay open it up in photoshop okay and let's see what the next step is here so we have our exercise file downloaded next follow these instructions to repair the damaged photo you can either use the web page format or a pdf so there is a pdf that you can download if you prefer that otherwise um we got this file uh from this tutorial on on toots plus um but i i copied it got rid of all the ads and stuff and it's available at the webpage link that i gave you there so i'm going to go ahead and pull this over to the side so i've got my instructions i'm going to open up photoshop with my file and if you guys if you're um if your photoshop doesn't look the same as mine the way the way to like get it all to default if you'd like to if you've already set up stuff personally and stuff by all means keep it but if you want yours to be default the way mine is you can just go to window workspace and i'm going to choose essentials and then in case something has changed in there you can go to reset essentials okay so i'm just going to choose reset essentials and it kind of resets how the whole layout is there now first things first this is for every project that we do okay always keep an original copy of your image unedited okay because i want to see how it was before you worked on it and also i like to be able to verify the files you have and stuff like that so when you have a background image just go ahead first thing always do command j let me let me turn back on my key casting here so you guys can see what i'm doing um delete what i just did but command j duplicates the layer okay ctrl j if you're on a on a windows machine and then i like to make a group uh with just originals in it okay and then i just don't touch those in case i messed something up i've got the original file able to so that i can work with um you'll notice because this is locked i can't copy it into the folder so just made a duplicate i'm going to get rid of that so but in my originals here is my original full image not edited at all and i'm just going to leave it right there turn that group off and um i've got it if i need it okay so um there we go okay so introduction he talks about why he did what he's doing print size is limited due to this don't worry about that stuff um so when it comes to print size and if you're working with an original old image like this you want to scan it at a good quality so that later they could print you know anywhere up to eight by ten so the best way to know how to get the right resolution is by um calculating so if you want and normally a good quality print is at 300 dpi and say we're going to do an 8x10 image and so the long end of it would be 10 inches at 300 dpi 300 dpi means dots per inch so if it's 10 inches and there are 300 dots per inch you just need to multiply that 10 by 300 okay and so you would want an image that was at least 3 000 pixels tall um on the long end for something that was say an 8 by 10 or or something equivalent to that size okay if you want even higher like double that that good print quality if you want something like 600 dpi we just take that dpi and multiply it by the long end so we would want something at 6000 dpi now we go and look at this image and we go to image image size we see that this is two inches by three inches at 200 dpi so definitely not something that's good enough quality for printing but it works just fine for our tutorial you will notice though for the project i ask you to keep a fairly good resolution okay so step one already specified dimensions crop the image you don't need to worry about that part step two is the patch tool okay so what he does here is um he says the patch tool works like a marquee in regards to behavior you drag a selection around the area you want to fix click the middle hold the mouse button so you drag it to another location it basically replaces what's in that area with something new so if i normally this might show the spot healing brush tool and this icon right here but if i go to that and right click on it and then go to patch tool that'll be the tool that we're using here so um as he shows he just kind of selects this area here and then you'll see how it works so go ahead and drag around this little area as a selection notice how it's kind of just drawing a little line where i drag the mouse and that's where your selection ends up being so and make sure you're working in the right layer see how i have this group selected so i'm working in a layer that i have a group selected that's turned off so it's telling me i can't do anything with this which is correct so if you ever see something like that it usually means you're working in the wrong layer so let's um select our layer here and so notice it has this icon see how it shows like this little arrow pointing out so basically you just grab this inside area and you drag to somewhere else okay and where i'm dragging it to that's what it's going to use to replace the contents of that selection so um since since we're working with this curtain i don't want it to be kind of the same i'm just going to drag up and it's going to fill it with the curtain from above okay and so that's kind of okay it's not perfect but we'll get in there and fix those irregularities okay so aligned it and then we'll go ahead and fix some of these other areas by making a selection around them just dragging trying to align like the the shadows here and so it's not it doesn't do a perfect job first time around sometimes i'm just going to select this other spot oops okay command d will deselect whatever selection you have okay so i've kind of roughly filled in those areas then it says after getting the larger areas done of the curtain go ahead and use the clone stamp tool so the clone stamp tool let me rename this layer while i'm at this here um okay so the clone stamp tool what that does is it basically copies exactly what you have selected with your brush so when i select the clone stamp tool you'll see my brush here and i can change i can adjust my brush size by doing the brackets right bracket or left bracket will make it bigger or smaller okay and if i hold alt i can zoom in and out with the scroll wheel okay see i'm zooming in and out with the scroll wheel and i can go into some of these um rougher areas and use my clone stamp tool by clicking see how when i press alt and it shows this like kind of target area so when you press alt and click that will be the source of what you're using for your clone stamp tool so just to show how it works i'm gonna i'm going to alt and click on this little dot and see when i drag my cursor now it's it's using that dot that was up here as the source for filling in the area where my brush is so if i were to click here it actually used see how it comes up with this cross hair and that cross hair is the source of where i'm actually pasting with my brush okay so um i'm going to undo that so i obviously don't want to use that as my source but so i've got this line left over from the clone stamp tool here i'm going to fill that in just by clicking alt click press alts and then click and it's not showing those keystrokes but and then i'm going to fill this area in here okay and again it's using when you press alt it's saying that's the source of what you used to fill in then when you use your brush it fills it in okay and so i'm going to get in and get some of the other details here um a little bit better i'm using a soft brush so you can change the hardness of your brush here usually a soft brush like kind of leaves fewer traces of the photoshopping so soft brush works well in a lot of cases okay so i just i just all clicked up here and then kind of filled in some more of this rip we'll get to the stuff on the guy's face in a little bit um got a rip coming out of the ear over here some all click here and kind of come round this ear off a little bit better okay i've got some other like little irregularities with the i mean what i'm doing you see i'm holding the space key and it's doing this thing it's kind of annoying but when you hold the space key then you can drag your image around okay so that's what i'm doing i'm holding the space key and dragging the image let me see if i can keep it from i wish i wouldn't just keep repeating the space cube and i'm just holding it down but okay so i'm just dragging this around looking for spots that need a little bit of clone stamping done okay all right and remember like you don't need to zoom in at you know i'm at two thousand percent now and look for inconsistencies you don't need to zoom in to a thousand percent you know just zoom in a little bit if there's an inconsistency you can see it like you know maybe 200 percent you want to fix it but if it's something that's only visible at um two thousand percent or a thousand percent don't worry about it okay so a little bit bigger brush here and just fill in some of the sides of this image notice where i cloned stamped before it's a little bit um darker for some reason so i'm going to try to lighten that up a little bit get the consistency of the shading a little bit closer here okay okay so i think the curtain looks pretty good right there excuse me let's see what what we've got here now this is after after let's see so do the larger areas with batch tool we did after getting the large areas done change to the healing brush tool and the clone stamp tool so we just looked at the clone stamp tool let me show the healing brush tool so in the same little group as the patch tool is the spot healing brush tool and also the healing brush tool there's a difference between the two so the healing brush tool works a lot like the clone stamp tool in that you pick a source to make the correction and then it uses that to use that source to try to repair what's in the area you're selecting so it's a little bit hard to differentiate what it does between that and the clone stamp tool and here's what it is a clone stamp tool copies it directly whereas the healing brush tool tries to like do a mixture of what is inside of your brush area and what is um what the source image is so it tries to repair it okay so for example i can show it with his eye if i use his eye as the source and then i come up here and try to put the eye with remember i'm using the healing brush tool now if i if i use that as a source and i put it here see how it does a mixture of what the eye is and what's in that area so it's like a lighter version of the eye and then so if i go to the clone stamp tool and do the same process i'm going to use the i as my source and go up here and click and it basically just copies it okay basically copies it to the new location instead of trying to do a mixture so whereas the um the healing brush tool like kind of mixes the two the clone stamp just directly copies it okay so if let's see if there's some areas that maybe need the healing brush tool not a lot maybe right here there's a little bit of a spot i think a soft brush with the clone stamp tool kind of got a lot of this stuff already i guess i can start getting into his hair a little bit now in some of these other areas let's see let's spot on his face i think oh i am in the clone stamp tool actually the spot on his face could probably use clone stamp tool here this one i'll use the spot healing brush tool so it's my source that's my fix i don't like how it did that okay probably come in and start fixing some of this stuff on his jacket maybe a little bit more detail than i need to worry about but while i'm at it might as well it's quick and easy okay so that's that's the uh spot healing brush tool and the clone stamp tool okay now it says that i'll let you all read this but i kind of described what the two do so it's talking about all the places in the photo that need to be repaired notice his image looks a little bit different for mine i think mine is a little bit tighter cropped i guess okay so we've basically gotten everything outside of his face repaired so far and now it says for the serious defects in our picture we'll use the man's right eye to substitute his missing left eye just draw a rough marquee selection around his eye and then press command j to jump the layer copy the selection to a new layer yeah so i showed you that before command j will duplicate the selection if you have an entire layer selected here and you press command j without having anything else selected it'll duplicate the entire layer okay now if you make a selection so as they're showing in here they're they're kind of selecting the left side of his face so if i make a selection with the marquee tool here using the rectangular marquee tool and i'm going to copy all the way down to his mouth all the way over almost to his right eye so if i make that as a selection in command j it will duplicate just what i have selected okay so i'm pressing i'm holding the alt key and clicking the eyeball to show only that layer but so that's what i've selected and when i press command j that's what it duplicates okay so now it says to select that copy it to a new layer and then command t to transform it so command t will take your selection and put it in this box and then you can actually kind of transform it at will okay so i think what we're going to do is flip this and [Music] okay so we're not going to flip it on our own we're going to right click and go to flip horizontal you notice it just flips that transformation area and then it says at this point when you drag the selection over out to where the left eye should be you would want to lower the opacity and line the eye with what's left of his torn away eye behind your new layer okay and so when so just hit the check box and when you go to do that it's saying to try to align it with the layer underneath so if i drop if using this i copied i'm going to call this i copy okay so if i use my copied eye layer and i drop the opacity then i can start to see what's underneath that layer and then i can kind of move it around to the correct place okay so i'm just looking at where his eye was there i want to kind of line this one up to be in the same spot okay so um i think that i is about in the right spot so if i increase this opacity i'll follow along here then when you have a line hit enter or hit the mark i've placed the green circle around oh yeah hit the little check mark to accept the location that it's been placed in and raise the opacity back to 100 okay so we've done that so we moved it around we got it into the right spot and it's back up to 100 opacity okay so now that we've got the eye in place what i think we're going to do is mask out everything around it yeah now with the layer selected hit the mask button and so this is the mask button right here this will make a mask in the current layer to apply a mask and notice it comes up with this kind of white box right here okay so how a mask works if you don't know some of you may know i'm not going to assume but how it works is basically anything in this mask layer that is oh i think i just showed something behind the camera here let me show you guys okay this is the mask button right here okay um so let me get rid of this mask and show you again so with your with your layer selected if you click this layer right here that will make the mask okay so click that layer and that makes this white selection which is a mask anything in your layer that you're currently working in with the mask anything that's white in this mask will show through anything that's dark will not so here's what i'm going to do i'm going to fill this layer with black by just inverting it so press command i that will make it all black and notice now everything is hidden from that layer as i toggle command i to make it either black or white it is either revealing or hiding what's in that layer okay so with everything hidden what i'm going to do now is is get my brush and i'm going to click this to make the default white and black uh foreground and background colors you can do this little arrow to switch between them but i want white i want a white paint brush and what i'm going to do is just come back in and start painting where the eye is from that layer okay with my white notice it's revealing what is in that layer okay so notice i'm getting this little white spot here that white spot is the area of that mass that is revealed because white reveals and black heights in a layer mask so i'm going to kind of just use this mask to fill in everything i can here as far over okay so right at this point i start to get to his other ear so i think what we're noticing here is that um this section of his head is like proportionally a little bit different so i'm going to guess that his hair is kind of coming down this way and then we would have a lot of space in here so what i'm thinking is this eye needs to be like moved over just a little bit more here and i'll fill that in a little bit more there okay and his eyes don't seem too close i've got some good good spacing and as you can see see how his eye starts to come in from that area i cut a lot earlier than the or the ear starts to come in a lot earlier than the other ear so we're probably just not going to use that portion of it okay but i think i think the eyes are kind of spaced right maybe maybe this eye is a little bit larger than the other one so i just press command t um to transform that layer and i'm holding shift to keep it all proportional when i change the proportions if you hold shift it will keep it proportional okay it's kind of hard to do with so much of his face missing on the left but what i'm trying to do is just get the eye proportional and and kind of fit in the area correctly so okay there it is so i i think it's kind of um in the right spot and this here this goes through how to use the layer mask which we just discussed okay and as he mentions the x button flips back and forth between these these two black and white that's that's handy when you're working in a mask because you're usually using either black or white but if i were to use gray it would partially reveal okay so now it says now you want to do the same process with the ear depending on the picture you try out different free transform modes you would try out different free transform modes you also could use okay so for the air i did use warp i did a minor part of the hairline from the man's right side rotated and scaled it slightly just to get a better start for the missing hairline then i cloned it where i needed to okay so i'm just going to do basically the same m as for marquee basically the same thing here and select kind of his hairline and his ear okay and i'm going to duplicate that and call it hair and ear okay and then command t to transform i'm going to right click and flip it horizontal okay and kind of move this to a spot like noticing his jowl line let me go ahead and drop the opacity here so i know where i'm putting it noticing where his other ear is and kind of trying to get it into a reasonable spot maybe i need to stretch it out a little bit trying to get the chin right trying to make sure it's kind of lining up with the ear underneath lining up with hair above i think that's a pretty good spot right there okay so now i'm going to make a mask i'm going to click right here to make a mask and i will start kind of using my black brush i'm going to press b for brush start using the black to kind of hide areas of this image that i don't want to use okay so start hiding the hairline a little bit i'm just kind of doing the edge of this to blend in to the other hairline what hair i have here okay just kind of blending this a little bit notice everywhere that i'm painting it's just hiding that part of the image which is exactly what we want to do okay oh and i forgot to put my opacity back up let's see where we're really at with this okay not bad switch over to white and kind of fill it in get a feel for where it's going here that left side of his face is obviously a little bit brighter than the right so i'm gonna hide some of that glow that's going on okay so that fills it in but like what i really don't like and what often happens with this is see how much space there is between his eye and this part of the hairline i i think that it might be because his his um had his turn slightly more or something on this side and so it just starts starts getting a little bit weird let's see if yeah i'm just going to do a little bit more copying here so i'm just going to select some of this hair and duplicate it and move it to the top layer so it's on top of everything else then i'm going to kind of move this maybe down this way a little bit and what this may or may not work but what i'm trying to do is fill in some like there's just too much open space right here somehow um let's see what this one is doing a little bit more let this hair come in here probably move our eye a little bit more over to fill in some of that space i feel like that's a little bit better like so this is the hard part about working with faces is just getting proportions right so i'm just kind of hiding that top area and looking to see what i think the proportions are whether they look good or not i i think they're pretty good when i start zooming out it seems a little bit wide here but not as bad as it was let's see do i need to use this hair at all um maybe a little bit let's see how it looks i may decide not to keep it oops let me decide not to keep it yeah i don't think it looks great but um for our purposes i think i'm going to keep it there because there's just not much else to work with when there's such a big rip so let's see here i've got these to make up the hair so i'm going to put those in a group that's the hair in the ear there and here and then excuse me okay so we've kind of got the ear filled in it looks like a little bit of a big ear uh maybe let's see which layer is that here maybe i stretched it out a bit but i think what i'm going to do instead is just just mask it out a bit kind of make it look like it's more in the right spot there we go okay they're still a little bit weird i think what it is is it it's hard to tell but he is his face is slightly pointed to his right or left and so this ear angle when stretched just doesn't quite look right over here but that's okay probably as close as we're gonna get with this kind of low quality image we're working with here okay so we kind of have his hair and his ear let's see what this talks about next so he's talking about filling in filling in the ear look at my layers here don't be confused okay you guys i think can manage your own layers it's really important to make sure you're naming your layers and keeping them organized that is part of the grading too so um keep that in mind okay so he also cut another little piece of hair out to put up here which is fine this is after getting all the larger parts in place i went back to the clone tool and retouched up all the edges i needed to fix this is what i put in its own layer the retouch layer okay so let's see this is what i put in its own layer the retouch layer usually you want the opacity on the clone tool set down so that you get a better control over the cloning and can do them in more than one sweep just drag over that area until you get the result you desire command z is of course something you want to keep your fingers at during the whole of this process so that if you don't like that part of it then you can just undo it often when you go about doing the last retouching you would want to use different layers for different parts if you don't want a lot of layers just merge them down when you're satisfied i usually do small parts on different layers and then merge them back to one retouch layer but never merge the basic layers so he's just talking about when you're actually repairing the rest of these parts of the photo whether you want to put it in its own layer to do that or not let's keep reading here i usually do small parts on different layers and merge them back into a retouch layer but never merge the basic layers if you don't want to merge everything together if you later see something you didn't spot right away it's always good to be able to go back and delete only the retouch layer fix that or the one layer and or the eye layer if you find something out of place and so on okay so what he's saying is that basically once he has these retouches done he basically duplicates that so i just selected this and the group that has two other layers in it and press command j to duplicate that and what you can do is select only the layers you've duplicated okay so i can make a group here for all the retouches oops okay and that's all the retouches i've done in separate layers to this point okay and i could turn that off then i have some duplicated layers here what i can do with those and a copy of this base layer that i had is select them all get that in the right spot i want it right there between those okay select them all and i can go up to layer merge layers and what that does is it puts everything that i had done so far merged together in one layer okay so what that's doing is it's giving me like one kind of master copy to work off of so so i'm going to call that retouch i'm going to call this group here the retouch work that i did retouch work okay and my retouch layer i can i can go in and start fixing some of this other stuff so um what we want to do is i'm going to try starting off with the clone stamp tool to just start like using parts of the above layer to just fix this crease that's happening this big rip okay so i'm just going back up clicking alts selecting parts of the layer above to use to fill in this big rip that's happening across his face okay use this side of the face to kind of fill in where some of the rip is over here also what this does is it lets you like continue working without having to figure out which layer had you know this which was it the ear layer or the eye layer that was filling in this part which one do i want to edit which one you know do i need to go in and retouch once it's all grouped together you can just do it all at once kind of makes it easier okay this little area of this hair here okay now you'll see if you look closely what happens with this and what happens with a lot of people's is like you still have this kind of oops this kind of shaded thing happening here so the top of his forehead for some reason is a lot um is a lot um let's see where we see it here the top of his forehead is a lot brighter or darker i mean than like right along where his eyebrows are so you have to kind of get that shading a little closer and not have this like kind of ridge going across his head which is often a problem um that people have with this exercise is they end up with this ridge going across his head and i think it's just from not using a large enough brush or like not following like the the angle of his eyebrows that are going here making sure you're kind of going all the way around so i think most of my ridge is kind of gone okay so we've still got some little bit on the ear here let's fill some of these in where maybe i didn't get it perfect when i was copying before okay it's a little soft in the ear but i think it's basically there right yeah i think we're basically there so i'm now i'm just gonna like kind of look at the background a little bit before i'm done with this and see what you know where it might be a little bit uneven that i can kind of fill in be just a few little spots and stuff that are easy to fix clone stamp and everything okay the background looks fairly consistent um the face is pretty much there maybe maybe i want to just oops let's see maybe there we go see one little dot here it's kind of a very light line here there we go okay so i think basically the uh the repairs are done let's see what this has after that part so we talked about grouping them all into a layer and then retouching that one so i think we're kind of at that part now the restoration part is done i think we're there okay restoration part oh and you know what i haven't done this whole time is press save that's that's a no no my bad good thing i remembered it so i'm just gonna go ahead and justin i need to save my work save save save okay there we go it's saved save so now the next step it goes into um doing some uh adjustments okay so the next thing i do is select all the layers in the and group them we've already done that already selected the layers i put the retouches into a layer here and i've done like the final retouches to that layer okay so i've got my retouch layer done and then i'm going to make a new layer from the group i'm just going to copy my retouch layer okay and i'm going to call it noise rename it noise this layer is for noise reduction one thing i want to point out which i probably haven't mentioned so i think he's talking about how he likes to group everything in one final group and then duplicate that into a layer for his noise reduction so we've got that going here we've got our noise layer as you can see from my layers below i've kept the original file on the photoshop for the background layer and then turned it off well we did that too remember you should do that for every project keep your original unedited image or images if you're using multiple images and put them in an originals folder unedited and just turn it off so i always start off working by copying this original layer and working from the copy yes definitely okay step 17. now we remove the noise in the image noise reduction is done in in various ways but here i use the reduced noise filter found under noise okay so i exaggerated the noise reduction a little for this tutorial i believe my original numbers were 8 for the strength and 20 for detail okay so let's just go into filter noise reduce noise filter have our noise layer selected filter noise reduce noise okay so it gives you a little preview of what you're working with here he said he used a strength of 8 and 20 for detail let's see what that looks like as a starting point 20 reserve details 20 okay so i'm going to turn on and off the preview here see what it looks like it's making the image a little soft but i think i'm okay with it i think i'm okay with it so i'll go with his settings 18 20. okay another tip here is to go into the advanced dialog and crank the strength up to full in the blue channel with zero on details okay i'm not going to get into the color channels here with doing this so i've reduced the noise in the picture next step after noise reductions we want to go into sharpening sharpening is another big topic and he's right there are a ton of different ways to do sharpening and people have so many different versions of what they think the right way is to do sharpening i'm not very concerned with the method of sharpening and i'm sure he presents a pretty basic way of doing it sharpening is another big topic but a common one to use is the high pass sharpening and that's fine there's there's a few different ways of doing sharpening if you guys want to just use let me just duplicate this noise layer and we'll call it sharpening and there's a couple different ones to use so if you go to filter sharpen and go to unchart mask that's one good way of doing sharpening this gives you a lot of different um options with this so one one way of just re um increasing the contrast in an image is to set the unsharp mask amount to a high amount and the radius to a high amount and that see how much that changes the um the uh contrast in the image so if you had a low contrast image that's a way of increasing contrast we don't really have a problem with contrast in this so we reduce the amount to maybe 30 and the radius to maybe 2 1.7 to 2 that's doing a fair amount of sharpening without kind of overdoing it so you always want to sharpen as much as possible without overdoing it and typically sharpening is like one of the last steps okay so excuse me that's unsharp mask that is one way of sharpening okay i'm gonna say sharpening and sharp for unsharp mask so that's one method of doing it i'll show you his method also so i'll duplicate this noise layer again and put it on top and i'm going to call this highpass high pass sharpening okay common one to use is high pass sharpening when you apply the high pass filter you would want to use low settings so for this tutorial i've raised the values a bit too much and you would want to say see less gray in the picture than here the edges are what you want to sharpen there are also some technical issues that you want to keep in mind when you sharpen for print you always want to over sharpen a little bit because printers have a natural effect of blurring an image a little bit when you have applied the high pass filter you would set the blending mode to overlay or soft light i usually make a use of a little over sharpen anyhow and then lower the value by lowering the opacity of that layer and that makes sense so let's go ahead and go through these steps so i'm going to go to filter other high pass filter other high pass okay and so he is using i can't even see what what amount is he using here did you say i think it says 1.2 say 1.2 maybe 1.2 so notice the high pass filter kind of um attempts to find the edges of the object it uses contrast to find the edges of something so when the radius is low then you'll have a low amount of edges selected okay the radius is high then it will like select more of the picture so it's not like using a high setting is not doing a whole lot for the high pass filter but if you use kind of you know 1.3 1.2 high pass filter is kind of finding some of those edges and and pointing them out so we've got a high pass filter here and then what we do is we set that blending mode for the filter so this where it says normal right here drop that down and go to overlay okay and you can see as i toggle this on and off it's applying what overlay does is it is that applies contrast uh based on the lightness and darkness so it's um it's applying contrast over top of the layer underneath so if i turn on only this layer that's what it looks like okay but if i turn on the layers underneath it's applying that contrast to those layers okay so that's that's the sharpening using high pass this is it using unsharp mask to be honest for this image i think i'm liking the unsharp mask better but either one work either one works okay i'm going to go ahead and leave unsharp mask for mine okay i'm going to hit save again make sure i'm saving okay bonus tip if you want to sharpen only areas of the picture you could mask away certain parts yes got it so he for example was only sharpening the face which we can do that very easily by making a mask layer right here making a mask layer i'm going to make it all black to hide what the layer is doing then i can take a brush and paint in with white over the man's face and then the sharpen layer that i made is only being shown in the areas that i've painted over okay okay in this final step i adjusted the contrast with an s-curve this step i didn't make use of in my original file and you'll probably want to do it before the sharpening i added it here just to get a more complete workflow okay so he's just adding contrast to the image using a curves layer so if i take that noise layer again and duplicate it and i'm going to rename it to contrast and what you can do here is go to image adjustment and go to curves okay and this is adjusting the curves for this layer and basically um what the curve shows is a histogram and if you don't know how a histogram works um this left side of the histogram is the dark parts of the image the right side of the histogram are the bright parts of the image so all the way to the right is pure white as it shows kind of down here this pure white all the way to the left is pure dark okay and then this the vertical axis is kind of what the output is going to be so if the original dark part of the image is dark and i raise this curve up it is taking those dark parts of the image and making them brighter see how it does that okay if i take the original part of the curve and i pull it down it's making the dark parts of the image darker okay so that's kind of what i want to do i want to kind of reinforce the darkness while also reinforcing the brightness so what i've done is i've just slightly dragged down a a section of the dark part of the image okay notice that this image's histogram starts right here so it doesn't have any 100 blacks and it stops right here so it doesn't have any one 100 brights another thing you can adjust is just by dragging these sliders to the beginning and end of the image um which might be doing too much to be honest let's let's pull that back okay in fact i'll step back a couple times here won't step back that many times but okay so i've i've just dragged down a little bit on the dark side and then you can drag up a little bit on the right side the bright side of the image okay to kind of brighten the the whites okay so if we preview this what we see is this is the before this is after so it's obviously adding some contrast into the image and you can kind of overdo this that's fine i'm going to overdo it by a lot okay and then what you can do is that contrast layer can be the opacity can change on it so it doesn't have to be fully affecting the layers underneath it you can you can adjust them to be um it's not quite as heavy-handed okay i think that's about right so i adjusted my opacity to about 66 okay i think that's a good contrast now the problem here is of course that i've already made the sharpening layer that was of the lower contrast so all i'm going to do is change this to maybe overlay and drop the opacity a little bit to kind of get it a little bit more i'm not gonna do overlay i'm gonna do multiply there we go okay so that's letting some of that sharpening come back into the image without um without reducing the contrast adjustments that i just did and now that i've done that i see that like some of the parts that i masked out down here kind of affecting how it looks so i'm just gonna reveal a little bit more of this in fact i'll just get rid of my mask entirely okay so by kind of adjusting um the opacity of these two layers then i'm kind of getting a good mix and kind of a good final image i think okay so it is kind of backwards that he puts the curves in the last step this should probably be the step before the sharpening as he mentions okay and then he gets to his conclusion so that's it so that's the first part of our exercise done it's 3 40. so in the next video i will be doing the colorization step of the exercise okay so um i don't think i had any viewers on twitch which is fine because part of the reason for doing this is so that i have videos of the lectures too so i will make this available on youtube here soon i'll give you guys the links i'll try to put in some time stamps um on the video too so that you can you know skip over the entry if you don't want to see that part and stuff like that but um yeah this is it next video will be colorization okay have a good one

Channel: USAMIAN

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Keywords: old photo restoration photoshop, photoshop tutorial, adobe photoshop, photo restoration, how to restore old photos, photos restoration in photoshop, photoshop complete tutorial, old photo restoration, photo restoration work, photos restoration, old photos restoration, restoration

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Length: 63min 7sec (3787 seconds)

Published: Mon May 03 2021