Re: #498 - The Final Finagle, I hope ...

As noted previously, the adjusted images had fringe elements associated with them, which
didn't show in the low-res copies posted above.  These MAY have been present in the 48-
bit scan file before it was saved, and were clearly present after adjusting the image using
Elements "Camera Raw" capability.  Here is a full-size pixel-for-pixel crop of one of the
two really bad areas:


The same area after more than an hour of careful masking and cloning; not perfect, but IMHO way better than before:


You can probably see that the black areas with red noise were also masked off (with 25 pixels of feathering) and the shadows then color corrected with a heavy dose of 'decrease red'.

The front of the engine was even worse, and being more complex took a lot of tedious masking and cloning to get even halfway decent:


Here's the end result - at about 1/6 the resolution of the original scan - and mellowed out with a bit of desaturation:


I don't know if it was worth two weeks of trial-and-error effort, but I'm going to open a GRAMPS  'Chromo Crude' Triple Chocolate Stout and call it a day!   THANK YOU Jim, John, Michael and Scott for hanging in there with me!!    

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/31/2015 10:52AM by Russo Loco.