Remove sepia / brown from old colour photo

meetdilip · **Joined:** Nov 19, 2019 **Posts:** 209

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Hi, I have a childhood photo which now has a tint of brown. It looks ok, but would be great if I can get rid of the old photo tint. Any tips on this would be great.

meetdilip · **Joined:** Nov 19, 2019 **Posts:** 209

I am currently trying Despeckle, Colour temperature and Exposure tools. Exposure was most effective in making the photo look new. Colour temperature removed the sepia tone to some extent. Despeckle did a lot of help by removing the noise.

Vincent · **Posted:** Wed Apr 29, 2020 5:31 am **(#3)**

Maybe you could select the unwanted colour, with 'Select by color' and than use the hue tool to see what works best.

In my experience it is never just one parameter, so keep trying out different tools to get the best result.

Cheers

:gimp

racer-x · **Joined:** Apr 15, 2017 **Posts:** 1837

You could also try "Color Balance". A more advanced tool wood be to try Colors > Components > Channel Mixer.

meetdilip · **Joined:** Nov 19, 2019 **Posts:** 209

Thanks @vincent , @racer-x . I will try.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Thu Apr 30, 2020 8:46 am **(#6)**

post your photo here in Photo Restoration and Enhancement forum and you will find a few will try their hand at fixing it for you.
First thing I would try would be white balance.

meetdilip · **Joined:** Nov 19, 2019 **Posts:** 209

Thanks @sallyanne

I got it fixed from various suggestions. Will try to post here when I have other requests.