Photoshop Expert Required

[vmail]

Ive got a photo that was taken in 1954 (50 years ago), its a black and white (looks black and beige),it has a high gloss on. when the image is scanned there are loads of white specs on the black parts of the photo because the light has bounce back to the scanner, anyway is there a way to fix this in photoshop?

[reece]

Yes, but it takes time, and time is money

[gordypix]

I used to do things like that professionally.

It does take time and can be expensive for someone to do it. If you have a digital file then experiment with it. Just make a copy of the original file and work on that - if you go wrong - reload the original and make another copy to play with.

The beige colour could be a sepia tone which was common years ago on monochrome images. Or it may have been subjected to light intensifying and the photographic paper has subsequently faded.

I don't suppose the original negative exists - that would be your best bet - Make an new print.

CLEAN YOUR SCANNER - that is dust on the image............or a cheapo scanner.

[vmail]

its a cheapo scanner and the negitive will be in kenya

[gordypix]

Post the pic up so I can see how bad the specs look.

Sounds like you just need a lot of cloning in photoshop/any image program.

[vmail]

small sample

http://81.110.24.164/toc/oldpic2small.jpg

[gordypix]

Could you magnify it anymore

[vmail]

it was scanned at 2400dpi to match the printer

[gordypix]

Re-size it for here dude.

[vmail]

image now 25%