Learn Old Photo Restoration with Adobe Photoshop

1. Introduction: Hi there. Welcome to this course on vintage photo restoration with photoshop minsocate and a instructor for this class. In this class, you'll learning various concepts tools and techniques used in restoring old photos and adding colors. Here you will be learning various methods such as cleaning decay photos, with spot healing brush, noise reduction using camera filter, and changing the value of luminance. You'll also learning converting photo to clean black and white or the gray scale adjustment layer. Then tone correction for highlights, shadows, darkness and the bright sections of the photo. You will also learn to add various adjustment layers such as and saturation to create mask, and you're also learning recoloring certain sections of the photos using adjustment layers and paint brush. You will also learn to reduce the haze or you will also learn to correct the faintness of the photo using luminosity and histogram. Moreover, we'll be using tone curves with RGB channels. You will also learn to use crop, rotate, selection, and other concepts in Photoshop. If you're curious to learn these photo restoration skills, in photoshop, start learning right now, S in the class. 2. Cleaning and Noise reduction: Hi, friend, you are learning vintage photo restoration. And here in this lesson, you can learn about cleaning, and noise reduction. When we have a vintage photo that's generally old enough. We need to first clean some things here. We may have some textures, folded, change in light and a lot of noise. First, let's do the crop, make a selection and go to image and crop. This way, we have removed few outline area and adjusted to fit in the site. This looks like a portrait photo. Here we'll be using the spot healing brush because there are some lights that we don't want and some spots in the photo. Some old images could have decayed. However, you may use a scanner or advanced techniques like for a scanning, but then also you may get the spot. A spot healing brush will remove the spots. You have to just select this spot and just apply this brush. You can change the size of a spot healing. You can zoom into the photo if you want, and so on. Once you are done with remove clearing a few spots, then you can further. Here in the neck, we also have some spots. Maybe due to lightning or decay in the photo, There could be a variety of vintage photos, but all are generally in the black and white. If we don't consider the colored photos, and with black and white photos, we have to reduce the noise and cover the things. If your photo is quite old, early 1920s or 1800s, it may have decayed over time. And then you can use this spot healing. Or you can also use other selection tool like magnetic lasso magic wand to remove some selected ages. If they are very clear. Okay, you can remove. But be careful. Don't remove some useful information from the photo. Keep it intact like color outlines are there clearly visible and the buttons, short buttons and everything else. So don't remove the texture. We focused here. Then once we are done, we can reduce the noise by going to the filter row filter. Just go to filter camera row filter. And here we need to go to the third icon on the top. That looks like a mountain. It's called detail. And when you go to detail options, you've got various properties to control. But right now we are just focused on the luminous. Because when we increase the value of luminous, it will try to reduce the noise. So the haziness and noise, the individual pixels that appear will be clarified. It will be removed. So keep the value higher enough, above 80%, if you have a lot of noise. If you have minimal noise, you can keep it with 60 or 70% or I will prefer 90% here. Once you are done with luminous, next step is to convert this photo into the clear black NY. There could be various ways. First, duplicate this layer to keep the original image intact, and then just go to adjustment layer and select the black and white adjustment layer. Once you apply black and white adjustment layer, it will convert the photo to black and white. You can alternatively use the saturation adjustment layer and decrease the value of saturation. You can also convert the image to black and white. But if you convert the image to black and white, it will convert everything to black and white components, and here RGB data would be lost. We don't want to lose LGB data because we can color, recolor this photo later on. So, you can use the adjustment layer here. Try applying this thing in your photos, keep learning, keep moving ahead. 3. Mask recolor: Hi, welcome back friend. Here in this lesson, you're going to learn about bringing back the colors to our vintage photo. We have this black and white vintage photo. And now we can bring back the colors by painting over this photo. Okay. So first, we need to convert it to the black and white. There are different ways. One way is to just create and hue and saturation layer, and you can drop the saturation value to zero. To just left hand side, using the slider. And next we need one more huge saturation layer, and this time, we will create paint. Okay. Just keep the saturation value in the mid range, next, you can choose the color that you want to paint. First, we'll be painting the skin color. Then we can paint the color for lifts, the pink color. Then we can paint the color to T shirt or the background or the eyes. So here it is. First paint using a skin color. Next, you need to just select this mask, change the color to black and just hold all key and press back in space. This way, we have disabled this color, and when we paint using this brush tool, it will start appearing. When we converted this to the black color, it created a mask, and when we painted using the black color, this top layer is revealed. Okay. So just paint over the face of this person. And here, the skin color is just appearing. We are painting this skin color technically over the skin. And you can zoom into the photo to make a fine selection. You can always change the size of the brush. And there are two ways. First, you can paint directly using the mouse or drawing pen. And if you have painted to an area that you don't want to paint, you can just simply hold the key and just repaint over that. So it will remove. It will work as an area. Okay. So first try to paint over the kin You can choose a different color. You can also use the color hex code for applying color if you are not comfortable in selecting this skin color properly. You can easily get it on Internet. Just search for skin color, and you will get the hex code. Or you can just use any color. Your photos may have a different color combination. And if you have a variety of subjects in the photo that you want to restore, you have to create multiple adjustment layer. So here, this is just a portrait photo of a person. So here we just require a skin color pink color for lips, T shirt has different color and the background. Four or five color would be more than sufficient. Sometimes you may have complex object like a state photography of early 1920s, then you can require more colors. It's completely on your choice, the color you want to do. We are not actually restoring the color. It is generally impossible because the camera, this image doesn't have the information for LGB or CMYK color tones. Okay. And it just only contains information for black and white components in the gray scale mode. Because the cameras in the earlier days, early 1920s and 1950s, we used to have just black and white cameras. And these days, we have all the mobile phones, cameras, and digital camera DSLRs and everything mirror less store information as a raw file and each row consists of a different pixels and each pixel have the information for red, green, and blue components that just define this photo, any photo. In the earlier days, this was almost absent. That's why we cannot find the colors back. We have to repaint. You can imagine it would be easy to do this tis shirt is in the light colors, so we can simply predict it is generally lighter tone of blue or red, anything. Okay. So next, we can create a new adjustment layer for, and we have done with painting the skin color. And now, just click the adjustment layer. You can duplicate the adjustment layer or it's better to just create a new adjustment layer right from a scratch. Okay. So you can right click to create a new adjustment layer or you can go below to this icon and saturation adjustment layer. So here this time we need color for the lifts. Make it a little bit pink in color. You can also turn the opacity to higher value or lower value, you can also increase or decrease the value of saturation. This keep the saturation value a little bit lower. And here we got a soft pink color. If there's a portrait of a lady, you can paint it using a different vibrant colors, for a lipstick, anything like that. But if it is a person, a man, it's better to keep it soft. Okay, so we can paint it again and we'll create a mask here. Just repeat the same steps. You have to select the mask, hold and left click to make it black, and then paint over this mask. Okay. So just select this top layer, and we just want this layer to the player. Go to the paint brush, readjust the size of this brush if you want. If something is important, you can zoom in. If your selection or the component is small enough, it's better to zoom for fine selection. You cannot hear well because we have increased vibrance of this photo to reduce the noise. So that's why we can easily paint. Noise reduction was an important step for restoring a photo because it will allow us to paint again. Okay. Here it is. Next, we can create a mask one more adjustment layer for the eyes because we have painted a skin color, and the eyes are generally not in the skin color. It has to be in the white color. So it's better to keep it either in the gray scale or the white. If you want to keep it in the gray scale, just reduce the saturation to minimal value, and here you can just paint over the mouse with the same steps followed. Just go to the selection left click with the black color. Here you can toggle and paint over the eyes. If you're not satisfied, you can just turn the adjustment layers one by one off and on and recheck if it is working fine or not. Here, we have tried to restore the photo, the color, and this is how we can do this. So the next lesson, we will be adding more colors to the background and the shirts. Till then, keep learning and keep moving ahead. 4. Adding more colors: Hi, welcome back friend. In the previous list and we have added some colors to this vintage photo. And this time, we'll be adding some more colors. So you already know how to create adjustment layer for hue and saturation and black and white. Here, we can create more such layers for painting other substances. So we have already painted this lips, face, and the eyes. Now, we want to paint this T shirt and the background. So just make it shade. Here, we use the blue color and apply the same step, make the color selection black. You need to hold and press back space. So once we created this mask, we have to move to the paint brush. Increase the size of the brush because of selected area is quite large. And we have to paint over the photo. So remember to paint with the white color because when you paint with the white color, the dtment layer starts appearing. Okay. Here we have this blue color, it appears. But when we paint with the black color, it will disappear. It will work like an eraser. Okay. Okay. So this was a simple plain shirt. So here we can paint everything with the same color. Sometimes you may have photos of a person that have a combination of colors, the attire the traditional attire generally for the woman's clothes, you need to be more careful because it requires patients to paint with different colors. Sometimes if you have some more details to cover, you can just simply zoom into the photo and paint with soft brush. You can also change the flow, but I would prefer to make it uniform. Don't change the flow. Keep it 100%, opacity and everything. If you want to apply some opacity, just go to individual layers. Change the value of saturation first. If you're not satisfied with the value of saturation, then you can use the opacity. Don't use any blending mode here because we want every color to be clearly visible, we don't want to have a mixture of colors. Because it would create difficulty in the borders. When we have borders of two different mass, it would difficult. Here we've got this blue shirt, and let's reduce the value of saturation to make it a little soft in the lighter tone because this tisshut was ideally in the white color white or blue color. Here, we have painted this thing. So here, this photo is just starting to appear as if it was shot in the real time. So we are bringing back the colors. So now next time, we need to just add this color to the background. You can add any color. Here I am using this green color. So make a proper selection for the hue and select the black color. And again, alt click Alt left click this mask. So we can start painting. What happens when we left click? This layer disappears, and when we paint with the white color, only the particular section that we painted will have the color. There, we can paint over the background, use the proper size of the brush. You can take a larger size or the smaller size, and you can change the value of the brush. Just start pending. Here, you can note that we have some darker sections of the photo, some vibrant sections, brighter sections. So we can also correct this using tone correction. Or otherwise, if you want to keep it natural, just keep it in the way. Don't do any tone correction. Just paint over the surface. Be careful in the border areas because the mixture could be a different color, a weird color here. Just paint over this thing. The remaining areas, be careful. This be careful about painting with the white color. Don't paint with the black. If you paint with the black color, it will work as an eraser. Don't use any color in between. Instead of white, don't take pink yellow, anything because you will have a weird color. White is the brightest color and the black is the darkest. That's why we use this thing. It is somewhat similar to the Alpha chen and it's only recognize the black and white. Yes, that. Here we have painted over the thing in the background, and we can change the color anytime. But first, we focus on painting the surface. This is how you can bring back the colors back to the vintage photos. First converted to black and white, apply some to correction, apply some noise reduction, use the spot healing brush, the crop, anything, any selection and removal that you require. Then just start painting using this hue saturation fi Here, this is how we can bring back the color. Isn't it magical? Because the old photos have lost a photo. If you have a grandparents, just take their photos and take their old photos, the childhood photos, and just bring back the colors. They would be very happy to see what you have just done. Here we can just experiment with any color. It's advisable to save multiple versions. So here we can have a background with the pink color, the red color, the green and the blue, save individual versions. And you can discuss with your friends and the family, your collaborators, your colleagues, discuss which photo appears good. So here we have just changed it to the quite red. It looks like it is a portrait photo that has been shot in the recent time. So it doesn't look like a black and white. So this was the photo that we used, and this is how we have edited and brought back the colors. Thing. Let's go to window arrange and two view verticals. This is how you can just look at these photos and compare side by side what we have done. The earlier version of the photo was decayed in some areas that we removed with a spot healing brush. Then we crop the photo, then we change it to the black and white, use noise reduction technique, and then we painted over individual colors by creating mass. On the left hand side of the photo that we painted looks amazing. Than the previous one, we have enhanced this photo. Try creating your own vintage photo restoration, and they store the photos and shared with your grandparents. So stay creative, keep learning and keep moving ahead. Okay. 5. Haze reduction with histogram and curves: Hi, welcome back friend here in this lesson, you're going to learn about restoring faded photos using histogram in Photoshop star. Some of the old photos from the early 20th centuries may consist of a and we can reduce it in photoshop very smartly. Okay, first, we need to open the histogram panel, and we can find a histogram panel from the windows and just go to histogram. Here, we can see the RGB channel, red green, and blue channel, and we can select individual colors and change the value of luminosity. Sometimes editing a photo just using a histogram could be a little bit tricky. Here we will be learning about this. We'll be using a tone curve. So go to this option and create a new adjustment layer for the curves. Here, this is a tone curve, anything we modify here would be reflected both in the histogram and the photo as well. So keep it a trail version. Here we got the values of the dark on the lower end. On the top end, we got the brightness, the white sections of the photo. So if we drag this thing, if we drag at any point of this curve, either towards the inside or the outside, it will affect the photo. Okay. So, the top second point is just for the highlights and the lower second point is for shadows. And anything in between will be covered as a shadow or the highlights. So it's better to increase the highlights and reduce the shadows that shadow may become more dark and highlights may appear more bright. In that case, we can reduce the haze. This is how we have removed the haze from the photo. You can turn the visibility mode on and off to get a better view over what changes we have applied. This is how we can do this. You can go to the individual channels and apply changes to the red, green, and blue channels as well. That was the earlier histogram and now it has more spray. So the first four two consists of all the color values right versus center. There was fewer information for the extreme dark and extreme bright colors. So here, let us try creating the tone curve using this hand or the sample tool. We have created a new adjustment layer, and you can select the blending mode here for the luminosity. Here, sample any color and just drag up or down using the left mouse click. This way, we can find this part of the color in the tone curve. Sometimes you may be confused which color to apply changes for. Just use this hand picker tool and this tone curve option here just drag it. Here just select some sections of the photo. We'll first select the brighter, the darker, the shadows and the highlight to we exact and you can drag this tone towards any direction. We have manipulated this tone curve by just clicking on certain points on the tone curve. We have just created a S curve, increase the highlights and reduce the values of shadow. But here we can apply changes to individual colors. You can create as much point as you want. There's no restriction here. But try to make the curve a little bit in a certain format. Don't just create a zigzag curve. In that case, it would be confused. Okay. It will be ilgical completely illogical to increase the value of shadows because shadows shadows tend to be dark in nature. Okay? So if you increase the value of shadow, it means you are increasing the brightness of the shadow. It makes no sense here. Thus, we are focused on decreasing the value of shadows and increasing the value of highlights. We want highlights to be more bright and shadows to be more dark. So you can turn the visibility mod on and off to have a preview of each adjustment layer and how it affects the photo. We have converted this photo to the smart objects, so that way, we are doing non destructive edits. Destructive edit actually destroys the photo if you perform any changes. Alternatively, you can keep a copy of the photo. And here we want to create one more adjustment layer for this curve, and we will be manipulating this using individual channels. This is the red channel. You can find individual channel, and we are just dragging the dark values towards the center because it doesn't have too much dark color, and we can perform change the value of any mid tones. When we decrease the value of the mid tones, it converts the photo to the green because reducing red means we are increasing the green color. The same way decrease the value of green, it will increase the value of right color in the photograph. Here on the right hand side, green color has less highlights, we can reduce that thing and you can go to the blue channel, and here it is generally covered in the darker section of the photos. It is less visible in the brighter section of the photo, so you can change the value. As you can see, when we manipulated this lGB channel, it improves the quality of the photo as it changed the photo to black and. There could be various techniques of changing a photo to the black and white gray scale. But this was almost unintentional and it actually got to controls over individual RGB channels. So we have reduced the haze and we have brought back some colors and changed the color from CPA to gray scale. Okay. So this was how we can restore a fad photo by reducing the haze in the photo. We have created a adjustment layer for the curves, and we have referred a histogram to change the values. Try creating this thing and restoring your own photos till then, keep learning and keep moving ahead. 6. Fixing Decayed photo with Spot healing: Hi, welcome back friend. Here in this lesson, we're going to learn about spot healing for fixing decayed segments of a photo in photoshop. Let's start with this. Here we got another photo from early 20th century, and this has decayed over time. This was shot using a DSLR camera. This photo was not scanned, but still fix it and perform certain operations. First step is to make a selection and crop your photo. Here we have just crop this photo. And we can identify that the edges are not aligned and then we can rotate it slightly. There could be different options. You could either make a selection using polygonal lasso and then crop or you can use the square selection and then crop. So here I will be just rotating it slightly and then making a selection once more. And after rotation, it should be aligned, and then we can crop it. Align it properly. This is a portrait photo, so we should just crop it. Because we don't want some unwanted components, other than photo itself to appear in our edit. Just make a selection. You can keep a copy of the same photo. In case you don't want to perform destructive edit, or you can convert this photo to smart object. So once you are done, just make a selection and go to image and crop. And here, we can remove some more segments of the photo. And after we are done, we can rotate it back to the default orientation, image crop. Okay. Here we have this crop this photo. Now, using the same rotate tool, just below the selection tool, and here you can fix it. This was easy to do. First step, we have crop. Second step, we want to remove some decayed segments of this photo using a spot healing brush. We have created a duplicate layer of the same photo. In case you want to refer back to the original photo. Or you can create an adjustment layer for a spot healing itself. Here spot healing is simple. You can go just below the eye dropper tool to make a selection for a spot healing. There are two brushes for general healing brush and the spot healing. I'm using spot healing because it is content aware, and it perform operations easily. If you have some complicated segments of the photo like ice because it have surrounded with a lot of textures, you can either zoom into the photo or make your brush smaller in size. Okay. And just make a selection using point we selection or select individual pictures. So here we want some parts of the eyes to be white, some parts to be black and everything. So here we have just fixed it. Sometimes the paper of the old photos could have turned out some water or different spots may occur over time. These kinds of lost information in the photo due to printing issues, and other things could exist. Here we can see that this tie is not clearly visible and there are multiple spots in this photo. So We can fix it in different ways. The best way is to use a spot healing. It takes time with the spot healing. You can just paint it over and over again. You can either paint over the pixel or I would suggest just painting like you're painting with a brush. Just move from one direction to left to right, top to bottom, bottom to top, and where you feel like. Don't worry if you're using mouse. You can use spot healing very well with mouse and drawing tablet alike. There's no issue. Okay. Okay. So just perform the selection. Once if you have done anything incorrect, the selection by mistake. You can do the changes by going to the control Z or you can open the history tab. Here we have applied some changes and try to heal. You can see the earlier version and you can find that the spot healing works very well here in this case. Also, you can remove adjust the borders and that now. We still got some segments of the shirt still in decay. We can just simply increase the size of a brush, spot healing brush to sample the close y areas and fix this thing. You can zoom into the photograph to make a final selection. Make a slide. We have fixed right side of the fit and we are zooming into the photo to make a clear selection. The same thing you can apply over the left hand side of the photo and make the larger side of the brush, zoom into the photograph and apply spot healing over the decayed areas or area with the spots. Here we have just fixed this photograph. And just be sure to correctly select the pixels because sometimes there could be blurry effect blur kind of effect. In that case, you can use a general healing brush rather than using a spot healing. But for now, we just require a spot healing. It's more than sufficient for now. This is the best tool to restore decay segments of the old photos. Okay. Later on, we can apply the noise correction and if you want to repaint a photo or you can convert it to the black and white. This is the final photo that we have corrected, and you can zoom into the photograph to make a finer selections. But if you feel like it's not working, just leave it to the default value. Over time, if you practice a lot, you would decide what are real shadows of the photo and what are spot and you can fix it with this too. Here, when we zoom out into the subject, we can just make sure that there are no other spots remaining in the photo and you can fix it. He just do these changes, and here it is there. This is how we have performed it and the sto photo. Try to this thing on, keep learning, and keep moving ahead. 7. Greyscale and control properties: Hey, welcome back friend. In the previous lesson, we have applied spot healing for fixing a decay segment of the photo. And here in this lesson, you're going to learn more about converting this photo into the gray scale, various options to convert it into gray scale and applying various changes to some properties like highlight shadow, contrast, black white texture, clarity in ware. So make sure that you are in the photography dashboard, and you can go to the adjustment layer for black and white to create a black and white adjustment layer. You got this option to change the value of red, yellow, green, Can blue and purple components in the photo. So if you want to highlight the skin color, it's better to highlight the red color of the photo. And if there are more red colors, you can apply the changes. So this is how we can convert our photo into black and white and control what components in the photo should be highlighted and not highlighted. Another way is to create an adjustment layer for hue and saturation and decrease the value of saturation. This way, we can also create an adjustment layer. You can turn the visibility mode on and off. To preview how your photo will be affected using an individual adjustment layer. Another step is to go to image menu and the mode and select gray scale. This way, we can convert our image into gray scale. But this method is not recommended because it will convert each pixel definition to black and white. And your RGB information is lost. Generally, all photos consist of individual pixels that consist of red, green, and blue components, ranging from value zero to 2505. But here, when we converted it using the mode method, it will just remove all the RGB information. Next, we can apply camera or filter and we can change the value of highlights, you can increase the highlights, you can decrease the highlights to make it clearly visible or not visible. This is very easy because you can find these things on the go. It's easier than tone correction because tone correction could be difficult for some people, and some people would like to specifically control individual properties. Because if you have a have some experience with light room. You would find this very familiar because a light room classic have a similar interface, where you can control each individual properties using the slider controls. These controls come in handy and you can change the value of darks and whites, and the texture you can change the values of the blacks. You can change the value of shadows. You can change the value of textures, use the slider. If you want to have more texture visible on a photo, you can add this thing, I can remove it. The camera of filter is used for two purpose. First, you can use it for noise removal, and then you can also use it for controlling various properties as controlling the highlight shadows involved. Then you can move to the detail tab or the mountain tab. And here you can increase the value of luminous. If you want to remove the pixels, it's better to increase the value of luminous. The noise, it could be reduced. Uh, if you reduce the value of luminous, the noise is retained. Okay. So if you want to keep your photo in the black and white, and you don't want to add color, you can keep it in the low value. And also if you are going to print this photo and want print to look natural, not an artificial, you can just keep the luminous value to the default settings. Otherwise, increase the luminous if you want to paint over certain sections. Or you can just keep it in the gray scale black and white. It looks decent enough. We'll be learning more in the coming lessons. Keep learning. Keep moving ahead. 8. Adding colors with Gradient Map: Welcome back print. Here in this lesson, you're going to learn about adding colors to the old photo using gradient map adjustment layer. So earlier, we have used the saturation adjustment layer, and now we are going to use this gradient map. So you can create a gradient map adjustment layer from this option below to create a gradient map or you can go to the adjustment layer option to create a gradient map. There are by default different options for dot tritone and rainbow colors, but I would prefer this general black and white and we'll fill multiple colors there. Just first, go to the window, two way vertical split. And here we got this earlier photo that we have re colored. So we're just going to extract the colors, various colors, generally skin color from this photo. If you have a photograph in color of the same time, generally, the old time. Okay. With the similar lighting conditions, you can extract colors. So here we will be extracting four or five king tone colors from this sample photo. Here we have this gradient map. Just click here in the gradient, double click to get this thing. On the left hand side, we will be placing the darker tones of the color, and on the right hand side, we will be placing the brighter tones. We'll be taking sampling this thing. Just use the eye dropper tool here to sample some color. Take a darker tone of the skin color from the skin where shadows are there. Then you can trick the brighter tones. You can repeat the same step by taking samples from different area of the faces, and you can create multiple values of the switches in between. So here just click anywhere on this gradient map, and here we can add. So here we have added five colors. Okay, you can add six color, eight color, ten color, any number of color you want. If you want to have more preseason, it is recommended to add a different color. But follow these steps, on the left hand side, keep it darker shades of the color, and on the right hand side, make it brighter. So here we will be taking this sample color. On the left hand side, the dark brown in the mid tone, we got this thing, and you can slide those colors to readjust and make some space. If you want the mid tone or any specific color to have some more depth in the photograph, you can adjust it. The gradient map is a powerful tool. When we use the hue saturation, we have this simple tone, a single tone. But here we got multiple color variations. Okay. When we paint over the photograph, the multiple variations of the photo, different colors will be applied at the same time. It depends on the scenario where you want. You can also extract the photo colors from the real world these days photo, high solution photo, but should have the same lightning condition, and here it is. If there is some error, if it looks like some hazynes, you can adjust it by going to tone curve correction. We'll be highlighting the shadows or highlights and the shadows will be enhancing it. Just try to make a S curve, and everything will be okay. Here, focus on this thing. Here press and back space to change to the black color and just use the paint brush to paint all this thing. We can add a slight pink color to the lips of this person's face, and you can also paint a different color and different segments of the photo. This is how you can paint. When you paint with a white color, the color would be visible, the layer would be visible or you would be creating a mask. If you paint with the black color, it will work as an eraser here. Just do room into the photo to make a fine adjustment, color it properly to cover entire segment of this thing. If you want to make it less crisp, just decrease the value of opacity or flow. If you're using a drawing tablet, it would be more efficient if you are focused on having a flow. It will add a painting watercolor paint look. But here we don't require this thing because this is not a painting. This is a photograph. So we are very well okay with this general settings with the mouse. Here we have this mask. And you can apply different blending mode if you require. And this is how we apply the grid in map to add color, and we have extracted the color from a different photo. Next, we can add more colors to this photo and add life to this photo. Try restoring your own vintage photos and get different photos from grandparents, your parents childhood photos on the photos that are in black and white. It could be decayed. Just try to restore them. Try to restore the old memories. You grandparents and everybody would be happy to see your. They would appreciate it. And add this thing as your photo editing skill. If you're expert in photoshop you want to be an expert in photoshop, you should know this vintage photo editing skills because it will be required in some point of your career. Okay. Stay creative. Keep learning. Keep moving ahead. 9. Painting Remaining segments: Hi, welcome back friend here in this lesson, you're going to learn more about repainting, adding a color back to this vintage black and white photo. So here, just create an adjustment layer for individual colors that you want to paint over. So here, let us first paint blue color to this shirt. Don't worry if you are not sure to decide the color that you have to paint, you can change the color anytime later. The point here is just make a selection, hold alt and back in space to create a mask and start painting. Once you have painted over the area, then later on, you can modify the color, the flow, the opacity, anything later on. You can also change the value of saturation and all other properties. Here just create a mass. I'm making this fast forward because it may take some time if you want to make a direct selection using this brush. You can repeat the stuff once you face an error. And you can paint just like that, and there could be two strategies. One strategy is to paint very fine using the selections and another strategy is to just paint roughly and then start erasing using the black color. Just paint black color to erase this mask. In the border areas, it should be required, and here it is. So we have simply painted over this shirt to selection. You can adjust it by making this fine selection. And here it is. So we have painted this shirt and we can change the color. Adjust the saturation to make it light or dark, or you can change the value of U to differentiate this color. Okay. You can take any color. It's not a problem. Then create another mask here adjustment layer for a different t. Here we can select for background. Let's make it green by the fall, and we can start painting. Here it is, make the larger size of the brush because this area is quite large. And once we have reached the border sections, we can make a fine selection by decreasing the size of the brush and here it is. And sometimes you may feel like a few colors are missing, so that you can bring back later on. For example, hairs are generally converted into the brown color. But we don't want this brown here. We want the black hair, so we can create 1 gray scale mask and paint over this hairs. Just make a fine selection. Here, if you want to crop this photo, you can also use the edge refined tool to make a clear selection of the hairs. If you want to turn the background and transparent, it is advisable. You can use any selection tool like magic wand, quick selection tool or any other tool to make a fine selection, and you can crop the subject and delete the background. Here it is. We have we have painted over this mass, and three layers have been created for the saturation. We have painted the shirt, the background, the face, the lifts and we can paint tie into a different color. So you can change the color of the background. So this was black and white, and this is we have added colors. We can add few more colors if you add a gray scale color to the eyes, it looks dramatic. Because the eyes are not in the gray color, they are in white. So alternatively, you can paint with a white color or you can decrease the flow or turn the opacity a little bit down? You can paint using the same color over the heirs. Just make the brush a little bit soft and start painting. And here we can see the heirs have been converted to the brown color, and we can paint over this thing. Next, we can change the background from green to a different color. You can turn it red pink, matching any color you want. This is how you can add more colors. Are you learning more in the coming lessons till then keep learning and keep moving ahead. Okay. 10. Recolor Hairs: Hi, welcome back friend. Here in this list, we are going to add some more colors to this photo, so let stars. Let's create a new huge saturation layer and we're painting the remaining segments of the photo quickly and very easily. Here, we don't know really what colors were there when the photo was shot. We know the color of kin, but we don't know the color of the shirt, the background, and the tie. We can just guess. We can guess the logical deduction, and here I'm painting with a purple color. You can choose magenta color, you can choose dark green or black color. It's your choice. But here we are sure that tie is something in the darker color while the shirt was in the brighter color. Because highlight components are more present in the shirt then the shadow areas. Shadows are more present in the tie, and we can say the tie is dark. So here, you can choose a contrast. You can choose a combination of color. S here. When we change the color of the tie to say purple or the blue color, it matches with the background. Okay. So background is in red color red or pink, and here we got this tie. So just adjust it to make this photo beautiful. Okay. So your objective should be there to restore the photo. The logic and the concept of the photo should be clear. It should not alter the concept. It should just emphasize everything and bring back the colors. Okay. So here we can see that in the gray scale and the original photo. The hairs were completely black and shiny. So what we can do when we edited to photo with the skin color, heirs appear to be in sepia tone or the brownish tone. But here we want to bring back the color to black. Let's create a adjustment layer for this and start painting over the heirs. Here we are just painting to bring back the black color of the heirs You can also paint over the moustache beard and eyebrows if it is visible. But here we can see that Mustas and beard are not clearly visible. So if we try to paint over this thing, the skin color would be lost. So it's better to keep them intact while we can repaint the heads, the main hairs. Okay. You can just experiment with this thing, and if you're not sure if your adjustment layer doesn't work, you can turn the visibility mode off and review it. You can repaint, create more adjustment layers. It's completely your choice. It's advisable if you're making for a family photograph for some article. You should take some collaborative suggestions with your peers, friends, family, anyone to decide what color to go with. If this photo belongs to your grandfather or someone like that, you should consult your parents. Because they might know what colors were present in the original photograph. So before experimenting, you should have some discussion. And here when we try to paint into the eyebrows, it doesn't look good. So let's leave it. Here we have added some colors to this photo. This was the original photo, and now we have added some colors to this photo. If you have different components in a photograph, you can paint individual sections by into photo. This is how you can repaint. I we're learning more in the coming lessons, keep learning, keep moving ahead. Okay. 11. Final Tone correction: Hi, welcome back friend. This is how we have edited photo. We have color corrected. We have reduced the noise, we have date colors and just to improve the photo. So we can compare this final edited photo with the black and white photo that we have corrected by removing the spots in the photo and next We can improve it further more using the curve. So let's create a new adjustment layer for curves. And here you can decrease the shadows and increase the value of highlights. Just try to make it S. So this way for to have some contrast and where shadows are more dark and the highlights are more visible. Okay. So this S curve will improve the quality of your photo. Otherwise, you can have this hazy look. Earlier, this was hazy, but with this small tone correction, we have improved this photo. Okay, so these are the three versions. The middle version is the main photo that the raw photo that was not edited. Then it was restored by cleaning and removing the spots in the photo. And converted it in the black and white. If you want a black and white version, you can save this version as well. And then we try to recolor and bring back the colors to this photo and perform certain steps. It was a quite long time taking approach b. Finally, we have this fruitful result. And with the tone correction, you can finish your work. Okay. So this is how you can restore your photo into different steps, try creating restoration, keep learning, and keep moving ahead.