Repairing Reticulation in a negative

I am currently trying to restore a seriously reticulated negative (very cracked and rippled) does anybody have any tips on repairing this so far I have been using heal brush and a colour blend but it's not quite good enough as it's a portrait any help would be appreciated.

thx

jim wrote:

I am currently trying to restore a seriously reticulated negative (very cracked and rippled) does anybody have any tips on repairing this so far I have been using heal brush and a colour blend but it's not quite good enough as it's a portrait any help would be appreciated.

thx

Is there any chance of you posting the scan somewhere for us to take a look at, Jim? I wouldn't mind having a go at fixing it up myself as a little exercise.

Brian

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:45:50 -0500, "jim" wrote:

I am currently trying to restore a seriously reticulated negative (very cracked and rippled) does anybody have any tips on repairing this so far I have been using heal brush and a colour blend but it's not quite good enough as it's a portrait any help would be appreciated.

thx

Do you do things like this regularly? If so, run, don't walk to your nearest (internet?) store and buy a copy of Karen Eismann's Photoshop Restoration and Retouching. Meantime, look at her site on:

www.digitalretouch.org and go and look at www.retouchpro.com

--

Hecate - The Real One

veni, vidi, reliqui

jim wrote:

I am currently trying to restore a seriously reticulated negative (very cracked and rippled) does anybody have any tips on repairing this so far I have been using heal brush and a colour blend but it's not quite good enough as it's a portrait any help would be appreciated.

I would start by doing a scan that is designed to record just the reticulation pattern - if the negative is physically cracked it may be easy to do this. Use levels to create a mask that sharply delineates the reticulations.

Then dup your image to a new layer, use the mask as a layer mask, with the cracked areas pure white, and the rest pure black. Start by blurring the image to fill in the reticulated areas and you may see a small miracle. --

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net