Color Correction and Restoration - Beginning Photo Retouching and Restoration Using GIMP - page 98

Figure 4-32. An image from the mid-1960s with severe color loss

To correct this image, follow these steps:

Open the image ( Ch4_little boy ) found in the Practice Images folder. 1.

2. Open the Crop tool (Shift + C) and trim the borders away from the image

(Figure 4-33 ), so they don't “contaminate” the adjustment (as discussed in the
Introduction).

Figure 4-33. Cropping the borders to achieve accurate curves adjustments

3. Using the Rotate tool (Shift + R), move the image slightly counterclockwise, to

straighten it.

4. Duplicate the background layer and rename it Color Restore (Figure 4-34 ).