This shows the result of some channel blends that I've been playing around with, splitting up the R, G, and B channels and blending them back into the image in various modes to create more dramatic contrast. These blends and their possibilities will be covered in Part III, but, as you can see, including the blue plate to add weight also brings out imperfections that were mostly yellow discolorations in the original. An ugly mess. if we could just get rid of the blotches, the gain in contrast would definitely be worth it. It's out of the question to try to dodge and burn them away, and the healing brush would just stir up the soup. In fact, it's such a disaster that the idea of even trying such a move probably would never come up in a normal work flow. Better to just rely on curves for contrast, though I've found that they don't do the job quite as well.

And of course, blurring is a rigid taboo. Any blur that could get rid of the blotches would certainly lose any useful detail. Wouldn't it? Turns out, the answer is "Not necessarily."

This shows the result of some channel blends that I've been playing around with, splitting up the R, G, and B channels and blending them back into the image in various modes to create more dramatic contrast. These blends and their possibilities will be covered in Part III, but, as you can see, including the blue plate to add weight also brings out imperfections that were mostly yellow discolorations in the original. An ugly mess. if we could just get rid of the blotches, the gain in contrast would definitely be worth it. It's out of the question to try to dodge and burn them away, and the healing brush would just stir up the soup. In fact, it's such a disaster that the idea of even trying such a move probably would never come up in a normal work flow. Better to just rely on curves for contrast, though I've found that they don't do the job quite as well.

And of course, blurring is a rigid taboo. Any blur that could get rid of the blotches would certainly lose any useful detail. Wouldn't it? Turns out, the answer is "Not necessarily."