Alln these require editing. After I do the job, should In simoly freplace by editing this post,or should I put them inv a new post? At the jmoment, I need this post to just transfer the data.
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I would put the revised photos in a separate new post, with appropriate comments about how you modified the images, and with what tools and parameters.
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I tried to edit the image using PhotoShop Elements 9, which I have been using for the past 16 years. The image was difficult to edit using this old software for amateurs.
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That certainly sharpened it up. Is it my system or is there just a touch too much blue in those shadows?
Looks like a touch too much blue on my laptop screen.
Rich
Probably need highly specialized software.
Rich
You’d need to know more about the type of film used, and how it fades with age, particularly if certain of the color dyes are affected more than others (as I believe reds are with Kodachrome). Then you would want to find out about some of the ‘original’ colors in the image, notably the advertising placards, the letter boards on the car, and the vehicles. That light-green color on the pickup will be a relatively easy color to match, for example, even if it has faded a bit, and that may help adjust things with components in those parts of the color spectrum.
The building colors at the rear of some of the images are a guide. Sharpening should be done before color adjustment. Those shadows are distractingly blue on an iPhone; I’d try increasing basic color saturation alone before starting to adjust hues.
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I’m happy you are makimg the effort, and I don’t claim I could do better than you have done, except for one issue only. To me, the surrondings around a transit vehicle or train are important, so I don’t favor enlarging the rail vehicls’s (vehicles’) image at the expense of losing intersting surroundings.
I’m busy with local matters and lessons.
Great pictures! Love the cable cars!
Did you know:
- There was once a very extensive network of cable lines in S.F.? In the late ‘40’s, they were nearly all taken out for bus lines. Public outcry saved the 3 lines we know today.
- Powell and Hyde is not an authentic original line, but an amalgamation of the previous O’Farrell, Jones and Hyde, and the Powell and Mason line. Powell and Mason is an original line. Today, both lines start from Market street, but the Mason and the Hyde lines split at the top of the hill. You have to pay attention to which car you board at Market.
Paul