Restore colors after loosing colors from scaling an image

[Tanya30235530mpg4]

I have scaled my images to a lower size, but after scaling and deleting original files

 

 

 

 

. I noticed my images have different colors than the original, are more gradient, and sometimes gray. I have been years postponing and waiting for a solution. Until I though to reach help from adobe community. Please help 🙂

[Signfeld]

Can you still do this with a good original?

If so, tell us how you do that.

[Tanya30235530mpg4]

Hiii Signfeld thank you for your reply, yes I remember how I did that. I used a program called riot version 0.62.

(https://codecpack.co/download/RIOT.html)

This program is the best to resize images, to save space. According to the websites.

Settings I used: batch processing

1)add image 2) open 3) additional tasks 4) resize to size (300k) 5) start

Here are detailed images

 

 All the details I did I can give  just please help me fix those images. Thank you in advance. Adobe community my last hope. Or I will have to wait years for ai :).

[Signfeld]

Thx. I thought you did it in Photoshop...

Trying to be serious and funny, your pics look like you enlarged a thumbnail 1000% and then saved it as a GIF or PNG with just a few dozen colors.

I don't know if anything can be done. Topaz Gigapixel can sometimes turn bad pics into ok/good ones. Maybe some blurring.

Maybe screencapping them at a small size where they look kind of ok, then enlarge in Gigapixel or similar.

[Tanya30235530mpg4]

Yeah I know my proccesed images are so awful now 😭, I dont know what to do. I tried using photoshop to remove gradient colors using paint and blur the difference in colors. It is so hard, time consuming, and doesnt give a very good result. I think the image icc profile is the problem i dont know 🥲.

[Signfeld]

I did these 50% with an "old" Gigapixel version.

They do show improvement.

[Signfeld]

I would either....

- not use that software anymore

- play it much safer; always check the results

- wonder if the 300 KB limit you gave is (much) too low

JPEGmini I have used "a million times" and that you can trust blindly. You can hardly spot the difference, except in pure test gradients.

[Tanya30235530mpg4]

I think the limit 300k was the problem too

[Tanya30235530mpg4]

I have downloaded the images, and I have seen they are better, thank you. but the images are still in a bad condition.

[Signfeld]

A safe compressor for jpgs is JPEGmini, but not free.

I've also seen there are now several sites that do it free.

[Tanya30235530mpg4]

The compressor is not my problem, it is very good if I use other settings in it, it is not my concern to choose a new one. I want to fix my corrupted images. 😥

[Signfeld]

The day may come indeed that AI can fix this 🙂

For now you can do your best on the faces and let Generative Fill do everything around it 😉

[Tanya30235530mpg4]

How to do generative fill ?

[Signfeld]

I'm half joking, but you could if you don't mind everything is different beside your faces 😉

YouTube is exploding with demos. At the moment, you need the PS beta version for it (and it's not hi-res yet).