Retaining background when photos removed

Report · Apr 16, 2023

Hello, I have a photo album with six photos on black paper and comments on the paper in white crayon.

Three of the photos have a red cast which I want to remove.

I then want to place the modified photos back on the page.

Currently I have scanned the page to a tiff file.

How can I remove the three photos to modify them and keep the background with the OK photos and the comments so I can replace the modified photos once the red cast has been removed

Thanks

Martin

Report · Apr 17, 2023

If I understand you correctly, there are several ways to do this. Here is one:

Select one of the red-cast photos e.g. using the rectangular marquee tool.
Create a new layer from the selection by pressing Ctrl+J
Do the same for the other photos that have the red cast.
Select each new layer and make the necessary color adjustment to that layer.
Depending on what you want to do with the final image, save the corrected file and/or flatten the layers.

Report · Apr 28, 2023

Dear Greg S,

Many thanks for your reply. As you have probably guessed I am new to Photoshop so this help is invaluable so I can just get over the specific problem. As soon as I have looked at some tutorials on Layers I will give it a go and let you know how it went but it may be a while.

Many thanks again

All the best

Martin