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lkl316
2018-06-08 19:23:49 UTC (over 6 years ago)
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I have a kodacolor photo that was totally in color. It was unframed and a leaking roof left it totally washed out. It shows very faint color. I s there any technique using Gimp that can restore the color?

Andrew Clarke via gimp-user-list
2018-06-09 19:37:41 UTC (over 6 years ago)

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You could use this technique :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f00u19-fck

On 08/06/2018 20:23, lkl316 wrote:

I have a kodacolor photo that was totally in color. It was unframed and a leaking roof left it totally washed out. It shows very faint color. I s there any technique using Gimp that can restore the color?

Steve Kinney
2018-06-09 20:07:45 UTC (over 6 years ago)

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On 06/08/2018 03:23 PM, lkl316 wrote:

I have a kodacolor photo that was totally in color. It was unframed and a leaking roof left it totally washed out. It shows very faint color. I s there any technique using Gimp that can restore the color?

Another method for bringing up color (and contrast), is to make a layer copy of the (scanned?) original, and set its Layer Mode to Overlay. This alone may not be sufficient; or, if it does /too/ much to increase color and contrast, dial the new layer's opacity back until if looks about right. (I think Akkana Peck posted this method here years ago, somebody did and I have gotten a LOT of mileage out of it.)

After the above adjustment, do Layer > New From Visible, and do further work if needed on the new layer.

Some tools to try:

Colors > Hue / Saturation - The saturation and lightness sliders may do useful things.

Colors > Levels - The default setting will let you drag a curve up and down where and as needed, to fine tune brightness within specific ranges. Play with it, and remember: Control-z is your friend, just undo any changes you aren't satisfied with. Also and maybe more importantly, the Channel selector will let you work on Red, Green and Blue independently.

The Colors > Map > Sample Colorize tool may also prove useful, especially if you want to go as far as combining multiple, masked layers to recreate the original image. The Help doc for this tool emphasizes /removing/ color and creating abstractions, but it can also make very good guesses in transferring colors from a sample image to the one you're working on. Worth a shot, maybe.

http://www.gimphelp.org/official/plug-in-sample-colorize.html

There are SO many ways to go about tweaking color in images...

:o)

Liam R E Quin
2018-06-10 01:58:30 UTC (over 6 years ago)

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On Fri, 2018-06-08 at 21:23 +0200, lkl316 wrote:

I have a kodacolor photo that was totally in color. It was unframed and a
leaking roof left it totally washed out. It shows very faint color. I s there
any technique using Gimp that can restore the color?

Hard to tell without seeing it, but increasing saturation may help (in the colours menu). Unfortunately different colours may be affected at different rates, so you may have to experiment a lot. Work in stages, and don't overdo it - there's always undo.

Liam (ankh)

Liam Quin, W3C,  http://www.fromoldbooks.org/

Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/
XSLT/XQuery/Web/Text Processing work and consulting.
lkl316
2018-06-15 20:29:45 UTC (over 6 years ago)
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Another method for bringing up color (and contrast), is to make a layer
copy of the (scanned?) original, and set its Layer Mode to Overlay. This alone may not be sufficient; or, if it does /too/ much to increase
color and contrast, dial the new layer's opacity back until if looks about right. (I think Akkana Peck posted this method here years ago, somebody did and I have gotten a LOT of mileage out of it.)

After the above adjustment, do Layer > New From Visible, and do further
work if needed on the new layer.

Some tools to try:

Colors > Hue / Saturation - The saturation and lightness sliders may do
useful things.

Colors > Levels - The default setting will let you drag a curve up and down where and as needed, to fine tune brightness within specific ranges. Play with it, and remember: Control-z is your friend, just undo any changes you aren't satisfied with. Also and maybe more importantly, the Channel selector will let you work on Red, Green and Blue independently.

The Colors > Map > Sample Colorize tool may also prove useful, especially if you want to go as far as combining multiple, masked layers
to recreate the original image. The Help doc for this tool emphasizes /removing/ color and creating abstractions, but it can also make very good guesses in transferring colors from a sample image to the one you're working on. Worth a shot, maybe.

http://www.gimphelp.org/official/plug-in-sample-colorize.html

There are SO many ways to go about tweaking color in images...

:o)

lkl316
2018-06-15 20:34:43 UTC (over 6 years ago)
postings
13

faded photo

Another method for bringing up color (and contrast), is to make a layer
copy of the (scanned?) original, and set its Layer Mode to Overlay. This alone may not be sufficient; or, if it does /too/ much to increase
color and contrast, dial the new layer's opacity back until if looks about right. (I think Akkana Peck posted this method here years ago, somebody did and I have gotten a LOT of mileage out of it.)

After the above adjustment, do Layer > New From Visible, and do further
work if needed on the new layer.

Some tools to try:

Colors > Hue / Saturation - The saturation and lightness sliders may do
useful things.

Colors > Levels - The default setting will let you drag a curve up and down where and as needed, to fine tune brightness within specific ranges. Play with it, and remember: Control-z is your friend, just undo any changes you aren't satisfied with. Also and maybe more importantly, the Channel selector will let you work on Red, Green and Blue independently.

The Colors > Map > Sample Colorize tool may also prove useful, especially if you want to go as far as combining multiple, masked layers
to recreate the original image. The Help doc for this tool emphasizes /removing/ color and creating abstractions, but it can also make very good guesses in transferring colors from a sample image to the one you're working on. Worth a shot, maybe.

http://www.gimphelp.org/official/plug-in-sample-colorize.html

There are SO many ways to go about tweaking color in images...

:o)

lkl316
2018-06-16 11:12:32 UTC (over 6 years ago)
postings
13

faded photo

Another method for bringing up color (and contrast), is to make a layer
copy of the (scanned?) original, and set its Layer Mode to Overlay. This alone may not be sufficient; or, if it does /too/ much to increase
color and contrast, dial the new layer's opacity back until if looks about right. (I think Akkana Peck posted this method here years ago, somebody did and I have gotten a LOT of mileage out of it.)

After the above adjustment, do Layer > New From Visible, and do further
work if needed on the new layer.

Some tools to try:

Colors > Hue / Saturation - The saturation and lightness sliders may do
useful things.

Colors > Levels - The default setting will let you drag a curve up and down where and as needed, to fine tune brightness within specific ranges. Play with it, and remember: Control-z is your friend, just undo any changes you aren't satisfied with. Also and maybe more importantly, the Channel selector will let you work on Red, Green and Blue independently.

The Colors > Map > Sample Colorize tool may also prove useful, especially if you want to go as far as combining multiple, masked layers
to recreate the original image. The Help doc for this tool emphasizes /removing/ color and creating abstractions, but it can also make very good guesses in transferring colors from a sample image to the one you're working on. Worth a shot, maybe.

http://www.gimphelp.org/official/plug-in-sample-colorize.html

There are SO many ways to go about tweaking color in images...

:o)

lkl316
2018-07-10 12:50:43 UTC (over 6 years ago)
postings
13

faded photo

Another method for bringing up color (and contrast), is to make a layer
copy of the (scanned?) original, and set its Layer Mode to Overlay. This alone may not be sufficient; or, if it does /too/ much to increase
color and contrast, dial the new layer's opacity back until if looks about right. (I think Akkana Peck posted this method here years ago, somebody did and I have gotten a LOT of mileage out of it.)

After the above adjustment, do Layer > New From Visible, and do further
work if needed on the new layer.

Some tools to try:

Colors > Hue / Saturation - The saturation and lightness sliders may do
useful things.

Colors > Levels - The default setting will let you drag a curve up and down where and as needed, to fine tune brightness within specific ranges. Play with it, and remember: Control-z is your friend, just undo any changes you aren't satisfied with. Also and maybe more importantly, the Channel selector will let you work on Red, Green and Blue independently.

The Colors > Map > Sample Colorize tool may also prove useful, especially if you want to go as far as combining multiple, masked layers
to recreate the original image. The Help doc for this tool emphasizes /removing/ color and creating abstractions, but it can also make very good guesses in transferring colors from a sample image to the one you're working on. Worth a shot, maybe.

http://www.gimphelp.org/official/plug-in-sample-colorize.html

There are SO many ways to go about tweaking color in images...

:o)

I don't know the command that will do this step:

Another method for bringing up color (and contrast), is to make a layer
copy of the (scanned?) original, and set its Layer Mode to Overlay.

Steve Kinney
2018-07-10 17:32:56 UTC (over 6 years ago)

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On 07/10/2018 08:50 AM, lkl316 wrote:

I don't know the command that will do this step:

Another method for bringing up color (and contrast), is to make a layer
copy of the (scanned?) original, and set its Layer Mode to Overlay.

In the Layers dialog dock, below the area where layers are shown, left click the icon that shows two rectangles, one on top of the other. That will make a duplicate of the selected (or only) layer, above the selected (or original) layer.

To change the new layer's mode, find the Mode selector at the top of the Layers dialog dock, left click where it says "Normal" and select "Overlay". The Opacity slider right below that starts at 100%, but can be used to make the selected layer partially transparent if needed.

The Layers dialog dock is shown at the upper right in the illustration on this page:

https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-concepts-main-windows.html

:o)