Image rescue

In one of the images I’m editing right now, I have a streak of color

across a portion of it.

The streak is not uniform but is readily identifiable, and quite annoying

that. It looks like someone has air-brushed with a very transparent ink.

maybe it looks like the rust? Anyway, I want to remove the streak of color without damaging the background.

One of the problems is that the background has similar colors (albeit it doesn’t fool my eyes). Any ideas?

TIA!

P.S.
I can’t post the image on the net and it’s too large for e-mailing…

I often get unwanted lines or pixels as artifacts of scanning. My way to correct this is to create a new layers over the image and with cloning and painting–depending on what you’re working on, usually both–I remove the line or pixels. By working on a separte layer you don’t hurt the original and correcting your own mistakes is easy.

Periodically, reduce the size of the image and look at it to see how well your work is going.

Walton

"Branko Vukelic" wrote in message

In one of the images I’m editing right now, I have a streak of color

running

across a portion of it.

The streak is not uniform but is readily identifiable, and quite annoying

at

that. It looks like someone has air-brushed with a very transparent ink.

Or

maybe it looks like the rust? Anyway, I want to remove the streak of color
without damaging the background.

One of the problems is that the background has similar colors (albeit it doesn’t fool my eyes). Any ideas?

TIA!

P.S.
I can’t post the image on the net and it’s too large for e-mailing…

In one of the images I’m editing right now, I have a streak of color

across a portion of it.

The streak is not uniform but is readily identifiable, and quite annoying

that. It looks like someone has air-brushed with a very transparent ink.

maybe it looks like the rust? Anyway, I want to remove the streak of color without damaging the background.

One of the problems is that the background has similar colors (albeit it doesn’t fool my eyes). Any ideas?

TIA!

P.S.
I can’t post the image on the net and it’s too large for e-mailing…

Sounds like a color cast. If so try this:
Eyedropper a Midtone and Highlight of the just the color cast. Add new layer and Edit > Fill with this sample color. blend mode- Color. Ctl + I to invert the Layers color (Image > Invert). Lower opacity to 50%
or so.
Add a layer mask and paint over the good area to "hide it" from the inverted color layer. Soft air brush, low opacity at the edges. Hope this helps.
Vernon

Sounds like a color cast. If so try this:
Eyedropper a Midtone and Highlight of the just the color cast. Add new layer and Edit > Fill with this sample color. blend mode- Color. Ctl + I to invert the Layers color (Image > Invert). Lower opacity to 50% or so.
Add a layer mask and paint over the good area to "hide it" from the inverted color layer. Soft air brush, low opacity at the edges. Hope this helps.
Vernon

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 18:35:08 GMT, "vern"
wrote:

Sounds like a color cast. If so try this:
Eyedropper a Midtone and Highlight of the just the color cast. Add new layer and Edit > Fill with this sample color. blend mode- Color. Ctl + I to invert the Layers color (Image > Invert). Lower opacity to 50%
or so.
Add a layer mask and paint over the good area to "hide it" from the inverted color layer. Soft air brush, low opacity at the edges. Hope this helps.
Vernon

I’d just add to that, look in the individual channels. You’ll probably find that one or other of the channels shows the streak a lot, whilst another may not show it at all. And consider blending the channel it doesn’t show in into the channel it does, or even throwing away the channel which shows it worst and replacing it with the channel which shows it least. A colour cast of this type is, usually, only in the one channel.

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