The other day(Easter Sunday), the family got together to celebrate and
look through a suitcase full of pictures from the past(from the fifties!)
We traded old war stories as we we're growing up and drank french
champagne. Phenomenal!!! Of course, I found the coffee and had that
as well.
There's an art to old black and white photographs that carry memories
from the past. You can actually work a minimum degree of restoration
to make them presentable. The photos shown are from
the late forties, early fifties when playing big band
music was a real celebration!
If you want to work on your own project in photoshop, a simple process is to
adjust the levels so that the photois not too dark or light, and you can use the
desaturation key if you want a black and white photo.
in order to get the sepia tone look, click adjustment/mode/grayscale. Then
go back to adjustment/mode/duotone, and choose a color(light yellow or orange)
and click OK. the other color is black. Black is necessary or you will have a real
orange or yellow picture! Experimenting is recommended.
the guru
