Water Damaged Tinted Photo
I’ve shown you how I can tint photos using Photoshop to give them color – but finally, I got to see in person what a tinted photo done the old school way looks like up close.
This photo was originally black and white, and someone had carefully hand painted every bit of it with colored dyes, to make it look like a color photo. The problem? This 4 decade old photo had gotten some water on it and the ink had run!
The original was about 8×10. I scanned it at a very high resolution so I could see every detail, and went in with my graphics tablet and removed all of the cracks, large and small. I also removed a lot of speckling that had taken place in the dye surface. That was really the easy part and something I do regularly.
Replacing the area which had been wet was a bigger challenge because the ink had all run to the color blue. I needed to repaint it based on what little I could see underneath, and pick up the dresses fabric pattern from the areas which weren’t damaged. This was obviously the most time consuming aspect of the restoration.
In the end it was worth the detailed effort – here is the photo, restored and ready to be printed again.
Tags: children, family, tinted photo
