I used Scott Kelby's technique of taking a jpeg file, and opening it as a RAW file to adjust white balance settings. In CS3, you use "open as", select the file, and open it as a "camera RAW" file. Then it opens just as if it had been shot in RAW! You can adjust the white balance, saturation, etc. I also increased the "black" setting, and then used "fill light" to recover more detail.
Then once I opened it in photoshop, I did a "defog" and popped the colors just a little, and touched up the eyes a bit.
And don't you just love the green shag carpeting! Oh, how I LOVED getting rid of that eventually!!!!!! Almost as much as the red, flocked, wallpaper in the dining room!
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pretty cool that you can do that. I didn't even realize I could do that in CS3
While I may not know exactly what you are talking about, I DO know that the pictures today and yesterday are just darn cute!
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that does look a lot better. Good job - you want to tackle all of my grandma's boxes of slides next?
What a super great touch up. its so nice to freshen things and make them new again.
I love the trip down memory lane! I may have to do the same thing this week since I have uncooperative family also, and your tips for cleaning up scans will really help. Then again, maybe I won't because watching my kids go off for another school year and then looking at photos of them when they were so little and cute might just send me over the edge into a puddle of mush.
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