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Topic: Grandads Wedding Photo (Read 772 times)
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deadants
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Hi mat,
This was a little tricky. Besides the obvious nick and scratches there is a fair bit of staining,especially on his forehead and right hand. The right hand has no detail so you cannot make out The individual fingers. I was not sure wether the marks below the bouquet were stains or ruffells in the dress itself. If it is shadow from the dress I can put them back in.
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Cleary, Doran, Boland, McCooey, McManus, O'brien, Martin, Savage, Wallis, McCollister, Wood. (More to come soon)
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deadants
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I wonder if members who have a go at restoring could log each step we try, not too detailed, this would then help others (including me of course) to improve our skills.
You have brought up a good point. I have been slack on providing my steps, I will try and give a bit of a step by step. I did do something a little different with some of the discolouring on the dress and the lady's face. I created a new layer then took a sample of the true colour near the stain the painted onto the new layer with a 50% opacity over the stain. I set the blend mode on the new layer to colour.
I created a colour adjustment layer and adjusted the midtones and the highlights.
I created a brightness/contrast adjustment layer and set brightness to -17.
Finally I used a filter called noise ninja to clean it up a bit more.
That's about it.
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Cleary, Doran, Boland, McCooey, McManus, O'brien, Martin, Savage, Wallis, McCollister, Wood. (More to come soon)
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Mat
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Hi All,
Firstly I would like to thank you all for your time and your efforts, what a great job you've done and I am really pleased with the results 
Deadants, not really that sure what the marks on the dress are I took another look at the original and they don't look like marks or scratches, could they be a shadow of the flowers? But I think it looks better without them.
I found this photo when I was clearing out my mum's house after she died, it was just in a bag up in the loft, don't you think that this photo must have really meant a lot to my grandparents, really don't understand why it was treated like that and allowed to get into that state.
Well I've had me rant and got that of my chest, so thanx once again to you lot for restoring it to its former glory.
Thanx and all the best
Mat
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Watson: Portsmouth,Hants.
Emslie: Aberdeen/ Portsmouth.
Watson: Cliffe, Kent.
Barns/Barnes: Higham, Kent.
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MancsMan
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Hi Matt
Using PSP9 I used mainly the clone stamp for the flower repair, Edge Preserving smooth filter, Texture Preserving smooth filter, light & dark filter, sharpen once Cropped away the egde blur & reframed. Thats about it.
Regards
Ken
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kizmiaz
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Me, aged 4, just starting out on The Dusty Trail
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I thought I'd have a go at this picture using my trusty, rusty tried-and-tested "colourised layer technique" (tm).
Its a bit time consuming, but I think the results are more often than not worth the effort. I use PSP7 to repair any damage first, and then copy the picture to lots of different layers, colourising each for a different part of the picture and then cutting out the bits I don't need. It means I have finer control over the colour balance in the end picture, and can go back and recolour a particular layer if it doesn't look right.
This picture used 11 seperate layers, including one for the skin tones, one for the jacket, another for the trousers, and yet more for the flowers, dress, background etc.
Hope its okay
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