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!!
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.
very cool tutorial. I have cs6 as demo, but usually use cs2. In cs2 I had to do a workaround because the 'content aware' is not an option for fill layers. Instead I used the patch tool. Not exactly the same outcome but still very nice.
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.
