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- | This series is aimed at learning to make something of the old photos in my possession and others in the public domain, due to their age. You, the reader, are welcome to tag along and, I hope, glean some small insight and perhaps an idea or two from time to time. No promises are made as to the quality of the content, or potential errors and omissions. I am a computer scientist, not a true artist or a professional in image restoration. So please take all this as a best effort, but with no firm guarantees — much as is the case of most open-source software. | + | **This series is aimed at learning to make something of the old photos in my possession and others in the public domain, due to their age. You, the reader, are welcome to tag along and, I hope, glean some small insight and perhaps an idea or two from time to time. No promises are made as to the quality of the content, or potential errors and omissions. I am a computer scientist, not a true artist or a professional in image restoration. So please take all this as a best effort, but with no firm guarantees — much as is the case of most open-source software. |
- | In the previous part of this series, we took a look at an interior photo which exhibited the typical lack of sensitivity of early digital cameras’ sensor chips. In this part, we will work on the opposite defect: washed-out colors due to too much light in the original scene for the camera to handle. This is typical in outdoor shots where plenty of sunlight has illuminated the scene. Contrary to popular belief, the problem may actually become worse in slightly overcast or hazy conditions, where a lot of reverberation tended to overload early light sensors. This was the case in the following scene from the island of Cheung Chau in Hong Kong. | + | In the previous part of this series, we took a look at an interior photo which exhibited the typical lack of sensitivity of early digital cameras’ sensor chips. In this part, we will work on the opposite defect: washed-out colors due to too much light in the original scene for the camera to handle. This is typical in outdoor shots where plenty of sunlight has illuminated the scene. Contrary to popular belief, the problem may actually become worse in slightly overcast or hazy conditions, where a lot of reverberation tended to overload early light sensors. This was the case in the following scene from the island of Cheung Chau in Hong Kong.** |
- | There is clearly enough light here to take a clear picture, since even the shadows under the tree branches hold enough detail. However, the sensor was unable to handle the sunlight bouncing off the white buildings in the background, the illuminated part of the tree trunk, or bicycles’ chrome handlebars. But, is this excessive light the case for all primary colors? The Histogram window (at menu Settings > Dockers > Histogram) gives us a more complete story: | + | Cette série |
- | Going from left to right, in the first place we see that very dark pixels at the far left of the histogram are few, though among these there is a tendency to contain a blue tinge and a defect of cyan. There is, in fact, a large proportion of pixels that have intensities in the middle range, with some reddish tinge to them. There is also a distinct lack of light-colored pixels in the middle of the top quarter to the right of the histogram, and these have a magenta tinge to them. Finally, there is a very heavy group of very light (whitish) pixels to the extreme right of the graphic. | + | Dans la précédente partie de cette série, nous avons regardé une photo d' |
- | Thus, from a standpoint of light exposure, what we have seen in the histogram shows us that the image is in fact globally rather well-balanced, except for the very light pixels. This tells us more about how the (old) digital camera’s chip reacted to light in the first place. Its response was correct | + | **There is clearly enough |
- | On the other hand, there seems to be some relationship between color balance, | + | Going from left to right, in the first place we see that very dark pixels at the far left of the histogram are few, though among these there is a tendency |
- | After some tests, it becomes clear that all channels have, in fact, lost a lot of detail in the lighter pixels. Of the three main colors, Red is the channel that holds more information of the darker colors | + | Clairement, il y a assez de lumière ici pour prendre une photo claire, puisque même les ombres sous les branches de l' |
- | At this point, we can take our handling of the image in several different directions. The first would be to try to balance intensities on a channel-by-channel basis. In Filter, Adjust and Color-adjustment curves, I started by giving the general luminosity response a slight tweak in the middle of the higher quarter of the scale. What I am doing is counteracting the corresponding peak at the rightmost end of the histogram, and trying to eek out some more detail from the washed-out whites. This is clearly not working. | + | De gauche à droite, nous voyons d' |
- | A very slight increase in the details of buildings at the back of the image is achieved, but at the expense of rather weird-looking colors, for instance in the greenish pane windows to the left. Could I get better results by working on a single channel? As before, I went into the Color adjustment curves window, and now tried adjusting each channel individually. The end result is the very same: details are not forthcoming. It is in fact clear that a large quantity of information has simply been lost inside the lighter parts of the image. Whichever way we go about it, once lost, this information cannot be retrieved since it is no longer within the image. | + | **Thus, from a standpoint of light exposure, what we have seen in the histogram shows us that the image is in fact globally rather well-balanced, |
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+ | On the other hand, there seems to be some relationship between color balance, and pixel intensity value. Let us examine this further. The Layers Docker that is usually found in the lower right-hand corner of Krita’s window has a second tab, Channels. Using this tab, we can activate or deactivate at will any or all of the main Red, Green, Blue and Alpha (transparency) channels in our image, without actually making any changes to pixel values. ** | ||
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+ | **After some tests, it becomes clear that all channels have, in fact, lost a lot of detail in the lighter pixels. Of the three main colors, Red is the channel that holds more information of the darker colors -- and, thus, it is the channel that represents better the details in the shady part of the tree. In other words, the chip inside the camera seems to have been more sensitive to red light than blue or green, especially at higher intensities. | ||
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+ | At this point, we can take our handling of the image in several different directions. The first would be to try to balance intensities on a channel-by-channel basis. In Filter, Adjust and Color-adjustment curves, I started by giving the general luminosity response a slight tweak in the middle of the higher quarter of the scale. What I am doing is counteracting the corresponding peak at the rightmost end of the histogram, and trying to eek out some more detail from the washed-out whites. This is clearly not working.** | ||
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+ | Après quelques essais, il devient clair que tous les canaux ont, en fait, perdus beaucoup de détails dans les pixels plus clairs. Des trois couleurs principales, | ||
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+ | Arrivé à ce point, nous pouvons décider de manipuler l' | ||
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+ | **A very slight increase in the details of buildings at the back of the image is achieved, but at the expense of rather weird-looking colors, for instance in the greenish pane windows to the left. Could I get better results by working on a single channel? As before, I went into the Color adjustment curves window, and now tried adjusting each channel individually. The end result is the very same: details are not forthcoming. It is in fact clear that a large quantity of information has simply been lost inside the lighter parts of the image. Whichever way we go about it, once lost, this information cannot be retrieved since it is no longer within the image. | ||
- | So, what can be done? An alternative approach is to step back and think about what we have been doing. The main center of our interest in this image is clearly the tree itself, and the heap of bicycles parked around it. The buildings in the background are less noteworthy, and give very little to the complete message. So, what if we exaggerated the process, and blanked out the burned whitish buildings altogether? We could thus concentrate on the photo’s main subject, with fewer distractions. | + | So, what can be done? An alternative approach is to step back and think about what we have been doing. The main center of our interest in this image is clearly the tree itself, and the heap of bicycles parked around it. The buildings in the background are less noteworthy, and give very little to the complete message. So, what if we exaggerated the process, and blanked out the burned whitish buildings altogether? We could thus concentrate on the photo’s main subject, with fewer distractions.** |
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+ | Une très légère augmentation des détails des immeubles de l' | ||
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+ | Alors, que fait-on ? Une approche alternative est de revenir en arrière et de réflechir à ce que nous avons fait. Le centre principal d' | ||
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+ | **We can do this either in color, or in black-and-white. When we examined the image’s color channels previously, the red channel actually had quite a nice vibe to it. So I went back into the channels part of the Layer docker, and turned off both the blue and green channels. I then went back into Layers, and added a new transparency layer. Then, using the airbrush at low opacity (about 30 to 50%) and some pure white, I scrubbed out selectively parts of the buildings in the background, concentrating on their darker elements that stood out more such as window frames. Other vegetation such as some palm trees in the background were also cleared up. The end result allows the main subject to stand out from its surroundings, | ||
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+ | Nous pouvons le faire, soit en couleur, soit en noir et blanc. Quand nous avons examiné les canaux de couleurs de l' | ||
- | We can do this either in color, or in black-and-white. When we examined the image’s color channels previously, the red channel actually had quite a nice vibe to it. So I went back into the channels part of the Layer docker, and turned off both the blue and green channels. I then went back into Layers, and added a new transparency layer. Then, using the airbrush at low opacity (about 30 to 50%) and some pure white, I scrubbed out selectively | + | **In this part of the series, we examined |
- | In this part of the series, we examined the effects of excessive | + | Dans cette partie de la série, nous avons examiné les effets d'une lumière |
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