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This is part of an image flickr member jeremyferguson asked for some help with, after some work of mine; my copy of this part of the original image for side-by-side reference is here, and the original where I found the help request is here. The original is © jeremyferguson, the mods are mine, but I award all rights to the mods back to jeremyferguson; this restoration is a gift. All my restoration work on this image was done with WinImages, running under Parallels in Windows XP, on a Mac pro.
Jeremy had clipped part of the image and made a very good black and white out of it. I followed his steps to get the same portion of the image (clipped the same region, then scaled it 141%) and then proceeded to work at trying to get the color out of the image.
This is the result; I used Winimages to break the image into CMY layers (because that's how photos are printed) and then I worked until I had a semblance of what seemed to be likely color - notice I didn't say correct - for the pup's face.
From there, I cloned out the master image from the separation, developed a B&W from it, and then built a new layered image with the B&W and the colored CMY result, such as it was, of the dog. I set the lower layer to "normal" and the upper layer to "saturated color" and proceeded to have an hour long session of spreading, dying, tinting, filling, and otherwise smooshing the colors I thought were right over the colors that I thought were wrong. I used WinImages auto color balance to balance the dog's pelt to white near various other items in order to correct the colors at that brightness so the local color damage was compensated for; this led to hints on the colors of various items in the scene, which I used to go further.
Consequently, this is very much an interpretive work, rather than as much of a restoration as I would prefer. Still, we do have color that isn't outright horrible.
I've still got a few questions remaining about pup's back; looks to me like the spots are maybe not quite right.
To compare, open both images in a web browser tab, and click back and forth between them.
Carole Saint-Laurent, IUCN, and Till Pistorious, UNIQUE Forestry and Land Use at the first meeting of the Global Restoration Council.