I've been working in digital imaging since 1997. I'm passionate about digitizing, preserving, and restoring old media, mainly negatives and movie films.
I upload videos to this channel whenever I think I have something interesting to show.
Just wanted to say this is a great technique! I had to change it a little since I am using Photoshop Elements, but it still works. I used it for a picture that has wear damage instead of cracks. It's also grayscale so I had to use the Magic wand and clean up the selection first but it worked well. Thank you for the tip!!
Hi I have a much cherished picture that has tons of cracks in it, but I am finding that it doesnt come up with the cracks showing white like the one above does? What am I doing wrong. I have created 3 layers, blurred the blur layer and then turned the original back on.
It was day 5 of restoring my heavily damaged photo. And when I say heavily damaged, I mean it. It makes your photo look like a joke. I had to set Gaussian blur to 120 to not see all the millions of cracks. When I set the blend to difference I saw a monster. Your technique did help, but it only got rid of the 1 huge crack. I have millions of small cracks that didn't get picked up.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for doing this!!! I'd tried everything I could think of to restore some photos from the Korean war; NOTHING WORKED until I found your tutorial!! One teeny note: All my photos were black and white, and I noticed while taking out the individual colors with the hue/sat layer, many of the cracks showed up in color. I had to play around with each color to get the max number of cracks out. Just something to think about...thank you again!!
Thank you for trying but you should have practiced your techniques before posting the video. You are all over the place and it is hard to follow what you are actually doing.
this video just sucks. that noise in bg. ruins it.. you are a moron. your commentary is horrible as well, stop trying to act like some smart guy... it's an image search tool..
Just a shot in the dark, but I tried running the FFT filter but I get a salmon pink noise when I'm at the RGB channel, and a white blank piece when I'm at the red channel. Any idea what could be wrong?
www.retouchpro.com/forums/software/33084-here-fft-64-bit-photoshop.html#post299321 - i don't have any good solid answers for this other than to try resizing your image smaller. If a smaller image works then you could try cropping the image into smaller parts and using the FFT on all the parts and then stitch them back together. I don't like that solution but it's the only thing I can think of if working on a smaller version of the image is out of the question.
VSXD Tutorials Ok thanks. I did some trial and error and it seems that the limit for the filter I use is around 48.1MB. Anyway, for some reason after colouring out the white stars and applying the IFFT filter, the image would look like its colours have been inverted, with a very pale washed out appearance together and become somewhat transparent.
