Preserved Topic: Restoring an old picture II (Page 1 of 1)

Just thought i'd update u on my attempts to update a 60 yr old picture. The first like is the original. The second is "u guessed it" the restored version, I have a lil touch ups to fix. just minor details.
http://elgrandespage.homestead.com/files/Restore.jpg
http://elgrandespage.homestead.com/files/Restored.jpg

Not a bad start, not bad at all. You are really moving along there. I don't think you'll ever get the texture to quite match up, but I do think that it can be quite a bit cleaner. A lot of the dust and grime is still on there. If you have fun doing this, you should try your hand at restoring some glass photos, which would be older then the one you're currently working on.

good job dude!

nice work! is your 'client' happy?

Ok. it´s a good job, very good! but still needs some toches, you can see the clear shadows where the scratch were, did you tried to do it how i told you?
tell us how you did it!!



[This message has been edited by Wakkos (edited 01-24-2001).]

Well seeing as it is such a LARGE pic, working on the full size was to laggy for me, so i copied out the most damage sections and worked on them in smalled files to speed things up. I used the Clone Stamp Toll for 90% of the work. I did a lil airbrushing for areas that needed to be ligher or darker. and thats about it, i just tokk my time and was patient.

No wakkos i never did try yer method, i wanted to get some practice with the hand tools and use my artisic side a lil more.

And my client is extremely happy, and seein that she is my girl-freind im happy also.... ;-)

I took some liberties with old mom and dad ( hope you don`t mind )

waddya tink ? I didn`t spend much time on it so it`s only partly done, but you get the idea..

Check it here



<edit> club fingers strikes again </edit>



[This message has been edited by docilebob (edited 01-26-2001).]

Yeah, bob's got a good idea.

You could probably do it b/w and then colorize it a little. It would turn out real nice.

On the other hand, if you like the original look, I think you did a damn good job on it.

To restore the thing to mint condition you'll have to remove the dirt from the 'high spots' on the paper's texture and that more than likely (to me) would mean removing the texture completely, until you get the photo right as rain, then reapply the texture later, or leave it out altogether. You've got a good thing going with all the hand work, after you finish it up you may wanna start jacking with many layers, tools under image>adjust and blending modes. Looks pretty good so far.