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Preferably Android but PC is ok too, if better results.
Mainly old pics I'm going to scan in that are rusty red in colour. See below.
Also, I use the Google picture scanning app but am I better manually scanning them with it PC printer/scanner? I suspect that is a better, if slower option...
Any info appreciated guys.👍
Me at our house in Hoo with Titch, our first dog. Good example of what I'm trying to restore.
Using an app on Play it generates this, can you do better, if so what app? I used Photomyne. Needs to be a "one click fix" really. Thanks!
Using Irfanview, free app on PC, adjust the first one and you can save the settings to apply to the next image:
Using Photoshop elements (not free) on PC. Better result but individual tweaks for each pic:
Thanks.👍
That second pic is *much* better than my app attempt.
I might be optimistic in wanting a one click fix...
What is your opinion on getting the best scan of the pics in the first instance? Traditional scanner or phone app? Rubbish in, rubbish out etc.
Not sure about a 1 click solution (too many variables?), but I'd imagine there is something AI based out there that will do it.
I got to this using Pixlr and a fair bit of tweaking.
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In terms of scanning, I'd take flatbed+PC every time over phone. Slower but would/should avoid the reflections like you have at the bottom of that image, which arse up the result a bit.
Cheers mate.
Yeah, one click is looking optimistic.
Using a printer/scanner I can put a few pictures in at the same time and "cut them up" in software after scanning. That doesn't degrade the picture resolution does it? Can't see how it does.
Got this by making the scan monochrome and then throwing that through the online AI colouriser at https://hotpot.ai/colorize-picture ...
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Not 1 click, but quicker than bespoke tweaking every image.
Scanning more than one at once and then clipping up will be fine - just make sure you use the highest DPI setting your scanner offers.
Ooh. interesting...
Tried the same colourising process on the actual red cast scan rather than a monochrome version. Not bad (must be enough decent colour information even with the cast to process it easier).
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Cool progress there.👍
I do notice the red flowers have lost their colour? The ones in the white planter.
Yeah. The difference between doing it by hand and letting AI do the donkey work I guess.
In Photoshop can you set up a batch job that applies the same tweaks on a folder of files? If so that should remove the individual tweaking per image but only works if the same tweaks are needed on every image.
It’s really easy to set up a batch conversion process in photoshop You record the tweaks you’re making as an action
Then you can automate the action to batch convert your files