Historical photo: a gypsy band あいにく, このページは英語にだけ使用可能です。日本語のバージョンは遠からず出ります。
Here is an archive photo of a gypsy band. The photo is badly
damaged and is covered with numerous scratches and folds, the edges are jagged.
We should note that the photo has a historical value as it reflects the culture
of a nation. The gypsies lead a nomadic life and their photos are not so often
to be found. Here we can see gypsy costumes and music instruments. We should
keep the photo for future generations.
However, as the time passes, archive photos do not get any better. To store
images in the archives they are digitized. In such cases we should apply up-to-date
image
processing technologies to enhance the photos' quality.
First of all we should prepare the photo for retouching. We open the scanned
photo in Adobe Photoshop (you can use other photo editors selecting appropriate
commands). We rotate the image by calling the command Image => Rotate
Canvas => Arbitrary and entering the value of 2,1° CCW (counterclockwise).
Then we cut the parts of the image that do not bear any useful information.
For this purpose we take the  Crop
Tool or press the key C on the keyboard. Select the part of the image that
should stay and press Enter. The parts of the image that are outside the selection
will be removed.
Now, it's time to improve the photo contrast. We'll do it in the following way.
We select the command Adjustments => Brightness/Contrast from
the menu item Image and enter the value of 7 in the Contrast
field.
We should select areas for retouching. We switch to the Quick Mask mode pressing
the button  Edit
in Quick Mask Mode in the Toolbar or the hot key Q.
Then we take the  Pencil
Tool from the Toolbar (hotkey - B) and use it to select the defects in the
Quick Mask mode.
We switch back to the Standard Mode pressing the button  Edit
in Standard Mode in the Toolbar (or the hotkey - Q).
Then we invert the selection either by calling the command Inverse in
the menu item Select or by using the key combination Ctrl+Shift+I.
Now we can start Retoucher Plugin. In the menu item Filters we select the line
AKVIS => Retoucher.
For the program to start retouching we should press the green button  .
Please note, that you can not start the restoration process with Retoucher
if no area is selected.
The selected areas are filled with red. As Retoucher restores the damages areas,
the red filling disappears giving place to restored texture.
When Retoucher is through with its job, we press the button  to
apply the restoration result.
The Retoucher window closes and we see the photo in the Photoshop workspace.
The areas that have been retouched are still selected. We can remove selection
by calling the command Deselect from the menu item Select or by using the key
combination Ctrl+D.
The Plugin has performed the job well. However we also see some imperfections,
for example, a slight difference of the background in the areas of the former
folds.
They can be retouched by Photoshop tools:
 -
Blur Tool (the hotkey R);
 -
Healing Brush Tool (the hotkey J);
 -
Smudge (the hotkey R).
 -
Clone Stamp (the hotkey S).
When the retouching process is over, we get the following photo that one wouldn't
be ashamed to pass to future generations:
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