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Originally Posted by FatJack
Oh, man, what is that software? Those are amazing!
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It's Paint Shop Pro X8 Ultimate. I've been using Paint Shop Pro 7 since way back. PSP 7 did a good job on a lot of the newer early 70s faded or redcast stuff, but I rarely could get the older photos to any kind of natural-looking state.
I'm still experimenting, but the features that really did the heavy lifting in PSPX8U for those two shots were the hue map (esp. on the green), one step photo fix, fade correction, and white balance. I fine-tuned the PSPX8U results a bit in PSP 7 for contrast and hue just because it's still more familiar. A lot of the basic PSP features for restoring and adjusting photos are still the same, but there are some nice new tools, and I'm psyched to see what I may be able to do with some more practice
For the last few years, I've been putting together a sort of master set that looks a lot like the 1953 Bowmans or the 1975/1976 SSPC sets. I used to do a set that looked more like the 1967 set (samples were posted in another thread here years ago), but now I like the cards more without any graphics at all - just a simple framed photo.