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Problem photos cscj01 21 Feb 21:34
  Problem photos Partha Bagchi 21 Feb 22:38
  Problem photos Owen Cook 22 Feb 02:13
   Problem photos cscj01 22 Feb 04:57
cscj01
2017-02-21 21:34:02 UTC (over 8 years ago)
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Problem photos

I have a number of old black and white photos that have a slight color cast in the faces. I have been trying to change this to a more pleasing gray. So far I have failed. I have attached one of the photos. I hope someone can show me how to solve this issue. Thanks.

Partha Bagchi
2017-02-21 22:38:16 UTC (over 8 years ago)

Problem photos

I assume you are not happy with desaturate and hence the question?

Thanks, Partha

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 4:34 PM, cscj01 wrote:

I have a number of old black and white photos that have a slight color cast in
the faces. I have been trying to change this to a more pleasing gray. So far I
have failed. I have attached one of the photos. I hope someone can show me how
to solve this issue. Thanks.

Attachments: * http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/488/original/BJ.jpg

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Owen Cook
2017-02-22 02:13:22 UTC (over 8 years ago)

Problem photos

I have a number of old black and white photos that have a slight color cast in the faces. I have been trying to change this to a more pleasing gray. So far I have failed. I have attached one of the photos. I hope someone can show me how to solve this issue. Thanks.

Attachments: * http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/488/original/BJ.jpg

Image->Mode->Grayscale

Owen

cscj01
2017-02-22 04:57:28 UTC (over 8 years ago)
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Problem photos

Image->Mode->Grayscale

Owen

The problem with this is the document consist of a page of individual pictures. When I use Image>Mode>Grayscale, some of the pictures look fine, and others not so good.

I tried desaturate as Partha suggested, and I can get most of the pictures with this. A few are problems, but I believe that is because they were somewhat blown out. I added some contrast to those and used desaturate and things are much better. What is making me crazy is, I thought I had tried desaturate before. I must have chosen Colors>Desaturate>Colors to Gray instead of Colors>Desaturate>Desaturate.

A tired mind can be a dangerous thing.

Thanks for the suggestions. I really appreciate them. I have about 9 of these sheets of pictures, and this was the only one that had the issue. Naturally I chose it last to repair. By the time I got to it, I wasn't thinking straight.