Hey Everyone, It's Gal in 2021 :) As Philippe Perrin pointed out in a comment below (thank you by the way!) make sure the Clone Stamp Tool brush has a hardness of 100%. In the video I made a mistake and it was set at 26% hardness which causes some blur on the image taking away the original res. So be sure to set that hardness to 100% and then the result will be even better.
Hey! So when I'm clicking on Image adjustment, the black and white option is greyed out even though I have converted the Image to Smart object and I have selected the correct Layer
Just watched this a few times & it's given me an idea to try colourise an old photo of my mother and her sister as children. My aunt passed away in 2000 & thought it maybe a nice gift for her for the New Year. Thanks for the tips!
@@PremiereGal Thank you again for this tutorial. Just spend today giving it my first go at colourising a photo of my Grandfather in his Royal Scots Guards Uniform. www.davejay.co.uk/images/gallery/colourised.jpg I'm pretty happy with the result, thanks to your tips. Will be saving this video in my bookmarks! (Looks way over saturated in Firefox for some reason, but Safari it looks great!)
Be careful, when you use the clone stamp tool with a brush that's got a 26% hardness, you're degrading the texture ... You're adding blur to the image ...
@@bakedutah8411 When using the clone stamp always put the hardness to 100% percent so that the algorithm properly blends your texture to the surroundings :)
Shes an amateur that would rather sacrifice detail and original photo content for making it modernn. This is not "repair" or restoration, but "replacement." Just ugh.
I have a somewhat wild story regarding this topic... When I lived in Crown Heights in Brooklyn a few years back there was a old school photo and print studio. I would pass by it everyday. I would pop in here and there and see if they ever needed help with anything. One day the owner gave me this extremely old print and asked what I could do... We scanned it in and luckily I was able to work some magic... Pretty crazy how powerful Photoshop is haha. Great video!
I am from Indonesia, I am here also accepting old photo repairs, I am not studying but learning from sources on TH-cam, thanks for the tutorial I hope this can help me in my work, hopefully you are more awaited other tutorials
It's so amazing about how I've been doing most of the edits you have done on Microsoft paint for years. Never used Photoshop or anything before. I'm a master of Microsoft paint
I was looking to remove some white color banding and lots of bright white dots, in a photo from around the 30's. I found your tutorial and was able to instead color the photo, which got rid of the bad areas and also gave me an 'amazing' new color photo. I wish I could share it.
Very nice. When you're painting and the brush tool is selected, you can hit the bracket keys to quickly change the size of the brush larger and smaller. [ = smaller. ] = larger.
Quick tip to change hardness and size of your brush... Hold control and option then drag your brush up or down to change the hardness/softness and drag left or right to change the size of your brush.
your tutorials are some of the best I've seen. You keep a great pace, show close-ups of the tools as you use them, speak slowly and clearly, explain everything you do and why - five stars all the way around. Thank you so much!! I'm now subscribed to your channel.
New subscriber here, I found you through your stop motion video now I have to watch everything!!!! Thank you so much for being so knowledgeable and personable! Love it. Sending all the Likes.
I enjoyed your video. I've never used patch before, just cloning everything, so that's new for me. I'm restoring an old picture for a friend and it's very washed out, so here goes.
I stumbled upon your channel by accident. Wow, am I glad I did. You explain your video techniques thoroughly and at a reasonable pace. You talk at just the right speed so the viewer can completely understand you concepts. To many others experts in your field talk way to fast, but you are refreshingly different from the rest out there. Thanks for your great videos.
I did this with a photo of my aunt aged 20 taken in 1950, back in 2002. The photo was badly damaged; but almost perfect when finished. All I had was Photoshop 5.0, and a magazine tut.
Thank you so much for the effort of putting this amazing tutorial together. Even for a man who thinks 'Atari' Combat tanks is still cutting edge, you have helped me make many relatives happy with my ham fisted CC skills in improving old photos :)
Good tutorial, a little time consuming. When I need the results quickly I do it with Pixbim Object Remover AI and to colorize Color Surprise AI, works in a single click and gives results in seconds.
Of course there are different ways to do things. Nowadays I could use content aware fill, spot heal and color replacement tool. For this background I would make a path around the person and the chair and either replace the background with a nice gradient or make this gradient blend with the background. As for colors i would do some research on internet to find colors that would match. But before i would do anything I would make a guide to align (rotate) the photo. Usually I would make the eyes align horizontal. And before making a path I will temporary turn up the contrast to see the edges better. Hair is always a problem, so fix that in the end.
Amazing talent! I’m going to ATTEMPT this to restore photos from the 1920’s to display at my sweet aunt’s 100th birthday celebration in October…. Pray for me! 😉
8:31 If you change RGB to CMYK you're reducing the colour palette. And once you convert to CMYK you lose the full range of colour available with the RGB. You can always convert back to RGB mode but there's no regaining that lost colour. Conversely, if you change a CMYK image to RGB you lose nothing.
Woow, I def have to practice this. I am in the midst of advancing myself with these images. now I am adding color to mastering my retouching. i love this teaching. thank you
Fantastic video! i watched a few colorize/photo restoration videos before this one. They were all helpful, but your method by far is my favorite. Even though it takes way longer, your after pic looks way more natural and less cartoony than the other methods.
Nicely done! I've restored many older photos and THIS would've been super helpful! I don't colorize, though. I just kept them all black and white, increasing contrast, etc. to make it crisp. Your tutorial taught me so much!!! I mean, even about some of the layers!
You could save a lot of time with the spot healing brush. Does a similar job to the patch and the clome stamp. You have less control but does a pretty good job.
Great job! I can't afford Photo Shop right now so I have app's that let me do most of what you have done here. But for some of the changes I think that Photo Shop has better tools.
That is incredible! What about pictures that you don't know what they looked like in color? What would you do in that instance? Amazing job you did with your grandfather's picture :)
Thank you so much. There’s so much of photoshop you never use. Plus seeing a different technique may be better. And this is such better. Thank you. I am a subscriber. 😄😄😄
If I do not have a color photo of grandparents, then, I find a color photo of their offspring approx the same age as in the photo. Not perfect, but is close.
@@PremiereGal Just find a similar Photo if that makes sense and create a floating palate of about 3-4 colours that you can pick from with the eyedropper tool... So you go from dark to light... But well done... :-)...
Great video. I have found old pictures of my father at his work. What a difference. Wish he could have seen it himself (or is is himselve?). Anyway Thank you very much.
I like your style. Straight to the point and easy to follow unlike some of the tutorials on here! I feel confident to tackle PS, (which I do not use!) on some of my old photos when making my family tree. Your Prem Pro tutorials are also just the ticket. Thank you.
Hey Everyone, It's Gal in 2021 :) As Philippe Perrin pointed out in a comment below (thank you by the way!) make sure the Clone Stamp Tool brush has a hardness of 100%. In the video I made a mistake and it was set at 26% hardness which causes some blur on the image taking away the original res. So be sure to set that hardness to 100% and then the result will be even better.
love your passion for your work.
Glad to see you keep updating the vid, hope you know you helped many people make their relatives happy keep it up
Hey! So when I'm clicking on Image adjustment, the black and white option is greyed out even though I have converted the Image to Smart object and I have selected the correct Layer
I can't thank you enough for this tutorial. My mom cried when I restored my grandparents' photo for mother's day as a gift.
Could you help me too, I am trying but it's not giving the results.
Awesome
🙂❤️❤️❤️
@@smilydvn5203 how did it work? Did you keep trying or gave up on it?
@@itzame2127 I tried several times but it didn't work out for me
Dang girl. You bossin it with this tutorial. I cannot wait to follow this tutorial myself to restore old family photos.
“Fantastic video! Your method is the best I’ve seen-natural results and a great tutorial on layers”
Just watched this a few times & it's given me an idea to try colourise an old photo of my mother and her sister as children. My aunt passed away in 2000 & thought it maybe a nice gift for her for the New Year. Thanks for the tips!
thats amazing, please share your work :-)
@@PremiereGal Thank you again for this tutorial. Just spend today giving it my first go at colourising a photo of my Grandfather in his Royal Scots Guards Uniform. www.davejay.co.uk/images/gallery/colourised.jpg I'm pretty happy with the result, thanks to your tips. Will be saving this video in my bookmarks! (Looks way over saturated in Firefox for some reason, but Safari it looks great!)
I finally got to restore my grandmothers photo of when she was 1 yr old using this tutorial. Thanks , this was very helpful.
Be careful, when you use the clone stamp tool with a brush that's got a 26% hardness, you're degrading the texture ... You're adding blur to the image ...
I was going to say the same thing...
Philippe Perrin, what do you recommend is done instead?
@@bakedutah8411 When using the clone stamp always put the hardness to 100% percent so that the algorithm properly blends your texture to the surroundings :)
@@bakedutah8411 for scratches i often use Spot Healing brush
Shes an amateur that would rather sacrifice detail and original photo content for making it modernn. This is not "repair" or restoration, but "replacement." Just ugh.
I’ve seen guys take old military photos and do this. It is amazing
I have a somewhat wild story regarding this topic... When I lived in Crown Heights in Brooklyn a few years back there was a old school photo and print studio. I would pass by it everyday. I would pop in here and there and see if they ever needed help with anything. One day the owner gave me this extremely old print and asked what I could do... We scanned it in and luckily I was able to work some magic... Pretty crazy how powerful Photoshop is haha. Great video!
a sympathetic grandfather
- and thanks for showing this work - I'll do it with my family-
I really like the way you demonstrate the step by step procedure of how to restore the old picture.
Thanks .....Mar
Thanks for this. I just came into a copy of grandmother in 1910 with her 8 small children and colorizing it will be nice gift to my siblings.
I am from Indonesia, I am here also accepting old photo repairs, I am not studying but learning from sources on TH-cam, thanks for the tutorial I hope this can help me in my work, hopefully you are more awaited other tutorials
It's so amazing about how I've been doing most of the edits you have done on Microsoft paint for years. Never used Photoshop or anything before. I'm a master of Microsoft paint
I was looking to remove some white color banding and lots of bright white dots, in a photo from around the 30's. I found your tutorial and was able to instead color the photo, which got rid of the bad areas and also gave me an 'amazing' new color photo. I wish I could share it.
Very nice. When you're painting and the brush tool is selected, you can hit the bracket keys to quickly change the size of the brush larger and smaller. [ = smaller. ] = larger.
thank you so much! I have colorized my picture of my grandfather near Stalingrad with your help!
Quick tip to change hardness and size of your brush... Hold control and option then drag your brush up or down to change the hardness/softness and drag left or right to change the size of your brush.
Thanks for the tip Julian!
On PC: Alt + press and hold right button
You can also use the open and close brackets on a Windows for that.
your tutorials are some of the best I've seen. You keep a great pace, show close-ups of the tools as you use them, speak slowly and clearly, explain everything you do and why - five stars all the way around. Thank you so much!! I'm now subscribed to your channel.
wow, thanks candace!!
Love how you explain and speak! Smooth voice for tutorials
8:30 ?
a demon
that creeped me out
Porn.
i think its just a slip up of the noise gate/ noise canceling
I just found an old picture of my grandma from when she was 14 and I can't wait to try it.
lol
I will rescan my old photos and restore them using your technique. I can’t wait to start!
❤️ Shirley
wow great job with the step by step instructions. For the background use the bucket, after you section the figure off.
New subscriber here, I found you through your stop motion video now I have to watch everything!!!! Thank you so much for being so knowledgeable and personable! Love it. Sending all the Likes.
I enjoyed your video. I've never used patch before, just cloning everything, so that's new for me.
I'm restoring an old picture for a friend and it's very washed out, so here goes.
I stumbled upon your channel by accident. Wow, am I glad I did. You explain your video techniques thoroughly and at a reasonable pace. You talk at just the right speed so the viewer can completely understand you concepts. To many others experts in your field talk way to fast, but you are refreshingly different from the rest out there. Thanks for your great videos.
I don't usually comment on vids but you did a VERY good job explaining this process!! You are the real MVP
One of the best tutorials ever, I think your grandpa looked a lot like you!
Thank you! I got some genes from my Grandpa for sure! :)
Really helpful! Thanks a lot!!
Thanks a lot Gal now i can fix pics of my grandma and grandpa 😊
Namaste 🙏, I Just like the way you explained the lecture. Short and simple.... Thank's Gal
Great Photoshop CC tutorial on restoring an old photo, simple clear explanations of the menus, panels, tools, options, etc...
this is a great explanation. So much simpler than I thought! I already retouched a photo of my wife's grandparents. Thanks!
Love this - many thanks, you've got yourself a new subscriber
Thanks premier gal nice tips to restore old photos😊
You can use square bracket keys to increase or decrease the brush size.
She already told you that!
I did this with a photo of my aunt aged 20 taken in 1950, back in 2002. The photo was badly damaged; but almost perfect when finished. All I had was Photoshop 5.0, and a magazine tut.
Really enjoyed your teaching style. Thanks so much
Thank you for the simple explanation.
Newbie here ❤️❤️
Very good tutorial..its so clear for basic 😍
Thank you so much for the effort of putting this amazing tutorial together. Even for a man who thinks 'Atari' Combat tanks is still cutting edge, you have helped me make many relatives happy with my ham fisted CC skills in improving old photos :)
Good tutorial, a little time consuming. When I need the results quickly I do it with Pixbim Object Remover AI and to colorize Color Surprise AI, works in a single click and gives results in seconds.
This is a great video because you can see the exact opposite of how you should colorize your photo.
Simple but very informative
Awesome. I just tried some of the techniques that you showed and I’m really happy! One more subscriber
Excellent work! I restore old books for the government in Canada. love your stuff!
Terrific tutorial on old, black and white photo restoration.
Of course there are different ways to do things. Nowadays I could use content aware fill, spot heal and color replacement tool. For this background I would make a path around the person and the chair and either replace the background with a nice gradient or make this gradient blend with the background. As for colors i would do some research on internet to find colors that would match. But before i would do anything I would make a guide to align (rotate) the photo. Usually I would make the eyes align horizontal. And before making a path I will temporary turn up the contrast to see the edges better. Hair is always a problem, so fix that in the end.
Nice tutorial. Not only useful but also very complex. Thank you.
thank you so much to share your knowledge! I restore one old family picture and I make my mom and aunties so happy!
Back in my day we sat up nights retouching negatives and colorizing prints with a tiny swab....AND WE LIKED IT!
Dadblamed kids! And stay off my yard!
Hey Gal thanks for the tutorial its was very easy to follow, i am pretty much a beginner at this stuff and hope to get better as i go along
Thanks for this. Really helped me get a start on restoring my old photos. 😁
Awesome, I worked on a photograph taken in 1940 in some kind of park, everything was sepia and now it looks so alive!
thank you Gal, it will help to watch this video when time sections are added in the comments, like at 18' color added, or something like that
Amazing talent! I’m going to ATTEMPT this to restore photos from the 1920’s to display at my sweet aunt’s 100th birthday celebration in October…. Pray for me! 😉
8:31 If you change RGB to CMYK you're reducing the colour palette. And once you convert to CMYK you lose the full range of colour available with the RGB. You can always convert back to RGB mode but there's no regaining that lost colour. Conversely, if you change a CMYK image to RGB you lose nothing.
Woow, I def have to practice this. I am in the midst of advancing myself with these images. now I am adding color to mastering my retouching. i love this teaching. thank you
nice and clearly explanation tutorial in english .. gretting from indonesia
Fantastic video! i watched a few colorize/photo restoration videos before this one. They were all helpful, but your method by far is my favorite. Even though it takes way longer, your after pic looks way more natural and less cartoony than the other methods.
Nicely done! I've restored many older photos and THIS would've been super helpful! I don't colorize, though. I just kept them all black and white, increasing contrast, etc. to make it crisp. Your tutorial taught me so much!!! I mean, even about some of the layers!
This video is great way to learn coloring.thanks
My only question is... what is that AWESOME music in the background? Loving it!
You could save a lot of time with the spot healing brush. Does a similar job to the patch and the clome stamp. You have less control but does a pretty good job.
So glad I found your channel!!
Such a great tutorial 😱😱
Wow that was a very very nice tutorial, very well paced out and explained quite well. You're grand father was a handsome fella too! :)
Thanks Junaid!
I love this! Do you by chance know how to make writing on the back of an old photo more visible?
Great job! I can't afford Photo Shop right now so I have app's that let me do most of what you have done here. But for some of the changes I think that Photo Shop has better tools.
Very useful and interesting tutorial, thanks
Excellent video, thanks for your time in putting this together.
Awesome video! Thanks for the great tips!
Very clear instructions. Thank you.
Awesome !!!! I learnt lots new techniques from your tutorial... Thank you so much
I've watched this so many times. I just love it. Have you done any more like this?
the way you tell everything is pretty nice
Looking at your grandfather's photo now I know where you get that beautiful smile from.
Her grandfather might have been a brush-salesman.
That is incredible! What about pictures that you don't know what they looked like in color? What would you do in that instance? Amazing job you did with your grandfather's picture :)
One of the best tutorials ever watched thank you !!!
Can't believe I have only just found you! Love your work 👍🥰
:-)))) super nice to hear/read ;-) You’re welcome to make your self comfortable here :-)
Interesting colorizing technique with the inverse layered masks. Is it possibly to do the same with levels?
Thank u so much for the tips u shared... I LOVE IT 😍
Love the simple way you teach. Thank you.
One of the best tutorial ever watched thank you.
it will provide help long enough for all of us
Thank you so much. There’s so much of photoshop you never use. Plus seeing a different technique may be better. And this is such better. Thank you. I am a subscriber. 😄😄😄
your so good in tutorial.. your so good in english.. i can easily understand.. thank you so much
You deserve like, you deserve comments , this the easiest tutorial I ever watched 😍
Nice work. I usually try and find a color photo of the subject and use drop tool to grab their skin colors, etc hope that helps👋🏼🙂
Not a bad idea! I didn't have a color photo of him around that age. Definitely a good tip!
If I do not have a color photo of grandparents, then, I find a color photo of their offspring approx the same age as in the photo. Not perfect, but is close.
photovi thanks for that tip 👍
@@PremiereGal Just find a similar Photo if that makes sense and create a floating palate of about 3-4 colours that you can pick from with the eyedropper tool... So you go from dark to light... But well done... :-)...
Great tutorial, thanks for the helpful video!
Thanks, great video. I really like that you proceed at a reasonable pace and the BG music is much better than most. Very instructive! Thanks
Thank you! I just restored with a few steps a picture of me when I was a kid.
Great video. I have found old pictures of my father at his work. What a difference. Wish he could have seen it himself (or is is himselve?). Anyway Thank you very much.
Awesome! How long would it take to do this in real time? Thank you!
Congratulations for 100k Subscribers
Superb tutorial! I learned so much, thanks..
Merry Christmas premiere gal.
this is something ive always wanted to do. Nice tutorial!
I like your style. Straight to the point and easy to follow unlike some of the tutorials on here! I feel confident to tackle PS, (which I do not use!) on some of my old photos when making my family tree. Your Prem Pro tutorials are also just the ticket. Thank you.
Your grandpa is handsome. you're amazing that was a great job.
Thankyou very much madam for this illustration.