Paintshop pro question

[davholla]

For various reasons I am using Corel Paintshop Pro (I tried others but this is the one I am doing best with).
Anyway I am going to scan some old film photos that I took with a UV filter and they look a bit washed out.
Any ideas what to do? I could post one if that helps but they are all of friends in fancy dress and they would probably rather I didn't.

 

[davholla]

PS I haven't tried anything and they are prints and colours using an hp desk 2362 scanner

 

[Jannyfox]

I use PaintShop Pro but I wouldn't consider this issue to be software specific. I believe somewhere in the menus there is a restore function (sorry can't look. I'm on my laptop and PSP isn't) but it'll just be a preset and probably won't do what you want. Your best best is simply scan a few and do the normal histogram and curve tweeks maybe with a bit of added saturation, sharpening etc and see what you can do. I've found that even a good print needs some (or sometimes a lot of) work to get the scan the same as the original.

 

[ColinW4]

I think I can help, I have sorted out scans of many 1970's pictures with the following. I am using PSP 2020 but I am sure they are in earlier versions.

Try from the Edit menu bar ...

To sort out the colours Adjust | Colour | Fade Correction

To brighten things up Adjust | Brightness and Contrast | Local Tone Mapping

To Sharpen Adjust | Sharpeness | High Pass Sharpen

Yes PSP is very workable and versatile just stick with it.

ColinW4

 

[Deleted member 34016]

Adobe Photoshop 2021 would sort that issue I think

No help I know - however: I would be prepared ( should you post an image on here) to see what could be done

Les

 

[davholla]

Thanks a lot for that. What would you suggest for this one? (Face removed to protect the innocent).

 

[ColinW4]

 

[davholla]

That is impressive, my photo isn't really faded - I just had a UV filter in the wrong place and it looks slightly wrong as a result