How To Repair Old Film Negatives in Photoshop

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📘 INDEX - Repair Film Negatives in Photoshop
00:00 - Introduction
01:25 - Curves Color Correction
03:32 - Analyzing the Deterioration Problem
04:15 - Convert Image Into the Lab Color Mode
06:15 - Repairing the "b" Channel with The Spot Healing & Patch Tools
08:00 - Using the "Lightness" Channel To Repair the "b" Channel
10:15 - Fine--Tune the "b" Channel with Levels
12:30 - Fine-Tune the "a" Channel with The Dodge & Burn Tools
15:35 - Paint with The Brush Tool to Remove the Color Cast
16:49 - Working with the Lightness Channel
19:30 - Analyzing The Final Image
20:06 - Final Thoughts
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[@BijoyExclusive]

very good lesson

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thank you, Bijoy Exclusive - Learn Graphic Design!

[@robertdennis7331]

thanks for bringing Dan Margulis' LAB techniques to a wider audience.

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Dan's the man! I've given him shouts out in my previous Lab videos. His books are still relevant today and no one has written anything better since.

[@hugoassuncao]

Amazing technique! That really shows how to understand an image and its components. Maybe the thinking behind the fix is the most valuable thing in here, you should do that more often! Usually tutorials don't show off the train of thought behind the solution and, thus, takes a little bit of the overall context out of picture. The way you did it was perfect! Thanks a lot for sharing.

[@1b1uster]

Two words describe this video: “Complicated Magic.” I would probably need to watch this 50 times before trying to achieve the same results! You must be related the magician David Copperfield!

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

lol it can be complicated, but if you watched 50 times I'm sure you would find it easy! 🙃

[@waynelytton7517]

You are the first person I have seen do or say anything about the Lab color space since I took several classes with Dam Margulis at some Photoshop Worlds. It's a powerful color space but one hard to understand and use with ease. Mr. Margulis said it was like the difference between driving a regular Ford car and a Ford ready for a NASCAR track.

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

I agree with Dan! I don't use it often, but in some cases, it works magic! Thanks for the comment, Wayne!

[@eoslove2022]

One of your best tutorials!,,,highlights the amazing depth of your PS knowledge and your keen analytical approach to problem solving in PS. Truly inspiring!

[@ken32708]

What a great tutorial. I've "solved" that sort of problem over the years and they were all patchwork. Your methods are smooth and easily followed! THANKS!

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

You're welcome, ken32708!

[@lloydvasquez4996]

Great stuff, man! I'm running into similar issues with quite a few of the old negatives I'm scanning. This is great help! Thanks!

[@welshdragon2008]

Yes folks. This is amazing. And its free information. FREE!!!

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

🙂

[@sudhanshushashi3568]

Its amazing to know this technique even when I don't have any use of it. But i like to watch full video and in the end i got something i didn't know before. Thanks a lot for teaching us these things. 💖💖💖😊

[@RondenBreems]

Awesome but - for me- a bit complicated. I will watch it several times and work along with the example. Your tutorials are always THE BEST!

[@pilcaroo]

That's very impressive! Your technique and the resaults are quite astounding.

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thank you, Udi!

[@chguu]

Jesùs, This is one of the best tutorials i have seen to date on Photo Restoration. A subject I have just started. I would encourage you to compile more tutorials on Restoration as your methods are the best. Thanks

[@kimvan9917]

Thanks you

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

You're welcome, Kim!

[@barfussfoto]

As always: first like for not forgetting it full of excitement after watching. Then watch. Extremely helpful as all content here in this channel.

[@pablopicoso]

Been looking for more photo restoration tutorials. Also, working in channels has been above my pay grade. 🏅

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Keep practicing with them, Pablo! They can be extremely useful.

[@GabrielMisfire]

This channel is a great source of forehead-slapping moments - like, it takes every little thing I picked up along the way in years of Ps, and actually makes it all come together and make sense. Thanks Jesùs!

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thank you, Gabriele! I'm glad you find the videos useful!

[@GabrielMisfire]

@@PhotoshopTrainingChannel illuminating, even! All the best :)

[@oliverscratch]

Thanks for another great (and useful) video. I've been using Photoshop since v.5, but I never fail to learn new stuff from you. Cheers!

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

You're welcome, Oliver!

[@olivierlegat6831]

One of the best tuto ever!! Thanks a lot for the incredible work you have done.

[@TylerStanczak]

This is extremely helpful to know! Thank you :)

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

I'm glad you found it useful, Tyler! Thanks for Watching!

[@TylerStanczak]

@@PhotoshopTrainingChannel of course! Really enjoy your content :)

[@tommygunrunner4656]

This was fantastic JR. Lab separation of color and detail seems to be pretty useful.

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thank you, Tommy! Yeah, in the right situation it can work miracles.

[@zareenremendies]

so helpful Thank you for this upload

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

You're welcome, zareen!

[@judgegrowler]

Fantastic tutorial and the results speak for themselves.

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thank you, Growler!

[@Byakkha]

This right here is one of the best photoshop tutorials ever.

[@rohhborges20]

A masterpiece tutorial, thanks for sharing.

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thank you, Rohh!

[@ahmetturk3858]

Thank you very much Mr. Ramirez. Nice lesson.

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

You're welcome, Ahmet!

[@kahkeshan-Sard]

Fantastic! Thank you.

[@andyimpressions6998]

Very Smart this workflow, congrats!

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thank you, Andy!

[@Sabbir31xEntertainment]

very unique method. thank you for the tutorial

[@Jareta1947]

Gracias Jesús. Con este método podré salvar algunos negativos antiguos que digitalicé. Muy bueno. Un saludo.

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

De nada!

[@rgarlinyc]

Absolutely amazing! Thanks a gazillion JR - I am much better informed (even wiser!) now!

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thank you, R Garlin!

[@victorchin_photoart]

So clever to use LAB inside a smart object. A very insightful tutorial. Thanks!

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

You're welcome, Victor!

[@susanwilson6409]

Absolutely fabulous tutorial, lots to remember

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thank you, Susan!

[@rahuls7039]

It's an awesome video tutorial. Thank You, learnt a lot about the process.

[@VijayKumar69]

Fantastic technique .. Learnt a lot from you. Thanks.

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

You're welcome, Vijay!

[@fielding68]

Terrific, but would never remember how to do it. Thank you for a great tutorial.

[@ranarbrand]

Amazing Trick! Very helpful/ Thanks.

[@ProPhotoRGB]

brilliant, love it amazing tutorial.

[@benyaminortiz161]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

You're welcome, Benyamin!

[@mckinnon421]

Excellent !!!! Great information!!!

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thank you, Duncan!

[@leniehulse1621]

Thank you, thank you! I have. Similar negative which has a lot of green and blue and have found d it difficult to correct!

[@vikramvicky2461]

Thank you so much sir

[@jorgeestigarribia5043]

awesome tutorial! great!! you still surprise me!

[@thirumaransrirangan4323]

Superb keep it up Anna 💪💪💪👌👌👍......

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[@nadimz]

I like the way you explain things

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Thank you, Nadim!

[@rmoffat3892]

Great Information, to much dor today but will be back - using CS-4

[@Unionboggle]

simply amazing!

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thanks a lot!

[@kalel099]

very awesome correction

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Thank you, kalel099!

[@VyYoga_DALAT]

Cảm ơn Thầy đã giảng rất hay ạ

[@MladenBozic]

This is amazing. As always. Thanks a lot, mate! :)

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

You're welcome, Mladen!

[@jiml989]

Amazing!!

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thank you, Jim!

[@dunnymonster]

Amazing technique Jesus! 👍😊

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Thank you, dunnymonster!

[@stevesnow4109]

brilliant! I also need to watch a number of times - many thanks Jesus - great channel!

[@19Photographer76]

Great Job, I was wondering when you were going to bring up the side by side view. Dan Margulis was the man back in the early PS days. One should really be selective with image restoration, most aren't worth the time (IMO).

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

I still recommend Dan's old book. Still relevant and no one has written anything better since.

[@MLeoM]

3:26 When I was first watching this, he was going to select the masked selection, I was like "oh oh, he's going to do it, he's going to do it!!" (Deletes) Oooooohww, blown away,,, in my mind Jesús: 🎶they see me rollin.... God bless you man! Have learned so much from you. Respect...

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[@LadyTracyOfTheDisk]

What a huge help! Thank you, Jesus! You da man!

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

You're welcome, Tracy!

[@jwheeler2000]

Wonderful technique and think it wil be useful for some photos I'm restoring. Would you please offer more videos on restoring old photos? These sometimes need different techniques like this, where your photo is a scan of a print with messed up channels, or stains, fading of colors or blotches of uneven fading. Also are their other ways to remove paper textures? FFT filter doesn't always work. Thank you.

[@textiledesignurduhindituto2085]

Brilliant

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Thank you, Textile design urdu hindi tutorial!

[@pixelkay2004]

thanks!!

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Thank you, pixelkay2004!

[@alvinknight1160]

Thank You Sir, Great Upload. Quick question - How do you remove the edges left by the lasso tool. is there a way to feather?

[@KYSLWAK]

you are really a god

[@manuelcontreiras2867]

Thanks Jesus, it´s very helpfull, great tutorial.

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

You're welcome, Manuel!

[@mushfiqurrahman6141]

thank sooooooooooooooooo much . Now I can correct my grandparents ' photos

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

You're welcome, Mushfiqur!

[@parbatshrestha9885]

Love from Nepal ❤

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thank you, Parbat!

[@parbatshrestha9885]

@@PhotoshopTrainingChannel sir can you make proper and easy way to restore old picture tutorial ❤

[@mahdikatebi2085]

Goood thanks

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

You're welcome, mahdi!

[@DougWillisLuckyBastard]

Excellent video, a lot to take in but you have shown me techniques that no one else has shown before (at least that I have seen). It has given me some clues on how to solve some specific problems I have been having repairing scans of old black & white images. I am not sure how to email you an image as a sample but the problem I have is twofold. Firstly, in some of my images that I have scanned they have areas of light leaks or double exposure, you can still see the detail bit overlaying the detail is an aree of much higher brightness, sometimes with a hard sharp edge. The burn tool does not do a very good job at removing only the high exposure and making it blend seemlessly white still retaining the underlying detail. The second issue is sort of related. Some of my image scans have milky stains in various parts of the image. I am searching for a way to wipe cleanly away these milky patches. sometimes these patches or stains are dark, like big fingerprint patterns. The spot healing brush does not really work well as often just smears out the area and loses the underlying detail. Would love to see more videos like this on on repairing problematic monochrome images over and above the usual stuff on Photo restoration. Seen a lot of that stuffon you tube and most of it covers the same stuff.

[@schutschinsk]

perfekt!

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thank you, Alexander!

[@mostafasoofy2594]

Amazing Job, thanks But just wondering that most of the old film is going to be of very poor quality, how do I fix that first?!

[@HadiBarakat-gx8iu]

WAW !!

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thank you, Hadi!

[@PAFECAFE]

this tut show the real power of ps and best editor(holy jesus ramirez)

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Thank you, PAFE CAFE

[@MarcoCalia]

Good

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thank you, Marco!

[@mattorrz759]

Great video mate. Amazing how you can recover old negatives. As a pilot, I’m more curious if the engine is a P3 Orion 🤷‍♂️😂

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

All I know is that it is a C-130/E aircraft (and 2nd last flight for any C-130/E in the Royal Australian Air Force). Or so I was told. lol

[@mattorrz759]

@@PhotoshopTrainingChannel Oh wow! Thank you so much for that information mate. I wasn’t expecting you to know. 😂👌 Love your videos and can’t wait for the next one 🥃

[@chguu]

Is there a similar method to fix old B&W images with stains. thanks

[@Ruffian_Xion]

Wow! Videos like this need a 'multiple like' function in KZbin.

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thank you, Gary!

[@davidwetherholt7334]

I'm wondering how painting with adjacent colors on a duplicate "color" layer would work for this? I've found that useful for realigning color splotches.

[@meharasa]

which photoshop are you using

[@vinceplatini]

Great! Thank you Jesus!

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

You're welcome, Vincenzo!

[@2JSinc]

You're a Legend! can we have a colab with piximperfect and bennyproductions? that would be epic...

[@PradeepSingh-qb8bh]

Amazing tutorial. I have a question to ask you sir: do you also agree that levels is completely useless in photoshop as the curves can do all what levels can and curves can do even far more than levels (of course in 8-Bit)

[@anuragsinha2636]

It's easier... curves can even do the work of color balance still its there.. prefferd options are used. Curves is the master.. but its quite tricky for some

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Not at all. The Levels adjustment is not useless. Just because a tool can do everything else another tool can, it doesn't make it useless. For Example, the Camera Raw filter is more powerful and can do the same thing (and more) than many adjustments layers. Does that make adjustment layers useless? Of course, not. Also, Curves can technically do the same job as a few other adjustment layers like the Invert adjustment, Color Balance, and more. But it doesn't make those adjustment layers useless. While the Curves adjustment is extremely powerful, the important thing to keep in mind is that those adjustments do what they do in different ways. And in some cases, one might be better/easier/faster than the other for your desired outcome. I would learn both and use either when appropriate. For example, I think it's easier/faster to adjust the black and white output levels using Levels. Even adjusting the gamma in some cases might be easier/faster in Levels.

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

@@PradeepSingh-qb8bh You're welcome!

[@skc1636]

How to transfer film negative into photoshop . Thanks

[@dc1840]

This is photoshop guru level. Thank you. I've tried editing some of my old family photos before and this video taught me so much.

[@mahdikatebi2085]

Hello, thank you for your good education, how can I find such a picture for myself, to teach it in Persian?

[@VadimMityura]

Thanks a lot! But what if you completely copy the Lightness channel into channels a and b, and then somehow modify them? After all, the brightness channel is visually the cleanest ))

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

That will not work as smoothly as you think. In some cases, you might have to invert the channel, and still do dodging and burning. In this example, doing that in the "a" channel wouldn't have worked without first doing a lot of work to get it to match. it was easier/faster to dodge and burn.

[@bennielaars]

I had hoped to learn how to improve the scans of my old slides and negatives beyond what I picked up from KZbin a few years ago. I’m not that interested in fixing problems, here I would just accept that it’s a difficult scan. Would it be possible to take us through old color slides with even color cast and show how to get optimum results in terms of (individual) color restoration, noise and sharpness?

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Bennie, feel free to email me an example (through my website) and I might be able to give you a few pointers.

[@bennielaars]

@@PhotoshopTrainingChannel Thanks for the offer! I looked around on your website and only found a contact page. Should I send an e-mail and await a reply before I can attach a file?

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

@@bennielaars You can link to a dropbox/google drive or another place if you like. Or I can reply and then you can attach. FYI I'm a little slow replying emails! Thanks!

[@MLeoM]

Jesús you're God-sent!

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thank you, Mauro!

[@JimCaputoMusic]

Does anyone know where to find the correct folder to install PS plugins on Windows 10? I went to C>Program Files>Adobe but there is no Adobe Photoshop 2021 folder.

[@amundson1942]

I agree with "Jim H" below. I'm lost. Would there be away to learn these techniques in a slower format? My wife and I are in the midst of fixing hundreds of old photos.

[@warrend8362]

Great job too bad you didn’t correct the color for that navy plane ex Navy here that color cast was killing me lol

[@yusufvirmani1858]

Finally i know what i should use the LAB profile for. 🤣🤣🤣🙈

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

👍🙂

[@gopimk3122]

always jesus standalone new idea

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👍🙂

[@stuartrosenthal7646]

I believe that was a transparency, not a negative.

[@adambenz6419]

Thank you Jesus👌

[@davorercegovac3674]

No comment 👍👍👍👍

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

👍🙂

[@glamorousMSTF]

mmmmmm,,, You are a genius Jesus , This tutorial is a little bit a far of my understanding and imagination. It needs yourself.

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thank you, Jim H!

[@greatnesstremonte7182]

Are you currently accepting film to repair

[@LatifKhan-174]

First comment

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thank you, Latif!

[@DarkGaming_23]

5th and love from india ❤️❤️

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👍🙂

[@jemsncrystals]

The Negatives i have seen were film negatives 🎞 these arent those right?