A few of our photos, sent by an aunt of mine, have a heavy red tint at one place or another, as if the camera had to phoitograph the scene through a small red cloud suspended in mid-air (if that makes sense). Is there a way to remoive the red?
That sounds as if it’s a film camera, and a small amount of light has leaked onto the film at some stage between the film being taken out of its original package and the film being developed. There’s probably nothing easy you can do to fix it.
It would be pretty difficult, but you could have a shot in a photo editing tool (I would use The Gimp as it is free and very capable, but PhotoShop or Paintshop Pro would do as well). You would need a good scanner to get the image on to your computer in the first place.
The trick would be to use layers to mask out the coloured regions, isolate them into colour streams, then apply filters to approximately correct the colour balance/exposure in those regions. It will not be exact - colour information and detail has been lost in those regions - but you may get a reasonable result, if you are careful. The hardest part will be the edges - they will not be defined, but will fade out. You may need to make some thin slices round the edge to correct each section individually.
However, what you may be seeing is not light leakage but double exposure. If this is the case there may be bits of a second photo overlaid on the first. Trying to fix this will be more difficult, as your enhancement tools will increase the detail of the second image.
Si
Are they digital photos? If so, can you post one somewhere for us to take a look?
TinyPic will host a photo for you for free if you need it.
If they’re digital photos what your looking for is XNView. It’s free and very powerful. I love this program and will guarantee you, you will not be disappointed in it.
If it’s film, which is what it sounds like, you’re kinda SOL. Your only option would be to take it to a film retouching service.
However, if you’re talking about retouching a digital copy of it, I’ve had very good luck with Picasa. And hey, it’s free.