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Jason Fraker
10-27-2005, 02:14 PM
There seems to have been a time in history where innovation in the science and art of photography so outpaced that of photo albums, the result of which was millions of Americans keeping their beloved memories stored in the bottom of the drawer that housed their drill bits, broken glass, half full coffee mugs, open bottles of rubbing alcohol & melting caramel candy. This photo actually appears to have been left in the mojave desert for 50-odd years, resulting in a wicked network of huge cracks completely covering the image. Of course it was up to me to clone and heal them all out, working at 280% with a 9 pixel brush. For a bonus, I had to "build" feet and a hand for the older gentleman.
What do you guys think?
http://img487.imageshack.us/img487/8829/retouch0ci.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Mynock
10-27-2005, 02:17 PM
His feet are on backwards. The right is on the left and the left is on the right. Big toes go on the inside not outside.
morea
10-27-2005, 02:18 PM
wow, Jason! You're amazing!
You know, I actually got my hands on some old black and white photos of my grandfather after the funeral last week with the intention of restoring them... and the first thing I said to myself was... "hmm, I wonder how much Jason would charge to redo these for me. He's good!" :D
Of course, I *have* to do them myself... sentimental reasons and all... *sigh*
Jason Fraker
10-27-2005, 02:25 PM
Mynock, Good eye about the feet. I'm gonna have to figure something out there. I tried distorting, rotating, flipping, etc, but they never looked quite right. I'm hoping the customer doesn't even mention it. I actually used the boy's foot to make Grandpa's feet. Any suggestions?
Morea, you flatter me! Good luck with your project. My best advice is to think of a high enough resolution to scan them, and double it! I scanned this image at 2000dpi.
Mynock
10-27-2005, 02:28 PM
my suggestion would to be crop the feet so you don't see any toes at all. Closer to the picture on the left or just below the pant leg.
LOL at the feet being backwards. It looks to me like he's wearing shoes, you can see the lace seam. Other than that outstanding job. http://home.comcast.net/~rnick9/koolsmiley.gif
Mynock
10-27-2005, 02:39 PM
Good eye Kool, I think he might be wearing boots.
clodhoppers http://home.comcast.net/~rnick9/koolsmiley.gif
Craig B
10-27-2005, 02:51 PM
Do you have a digital camera that you could simply photograph someone else's feet with the right lighting and the right angles you need and place them in the photo?
Craig B
10-27-2005, 02:53 PM
Oh, and it does look really good by the way ...
Jason Fraker
10-27-2005, 02:58 PM
Craig, I suppose I could photograph some feet, but would they match the grain of the image? That's hard to duplicate. I guess the grain of this particular image is pretty thoroughly obliterated, so now there's a custom obliterated grain to duplicate.
The guy was originally wearing shoes, but I stood no chance of fixing them, and the boy's foot was in good enough shape...
D-Frag
10-27-2005, 03:01 PM
nice job, i think it looks great!
morea
10-27-2005, 03:06 PM
Jason, as I am not experienced in this sort of thing, I'll toss out a suggestion but I don't know if it would actually work :o
could you use a blending mode like "multiply" or something to match the shoes to the grain of the image? Would that give you enough to show the shoes without necessarily making them look like a separate image?
Jason Fraker
10-27-2005, 03:34 PM
Perhaps that would work, Morea. I might give it a shot. There some other stuff I could do on top of that like blurring lowering opacity adding noise, etc.
Craig B
10-27-2005, 03:54 PM
duplicating the grain shouldn't be overly difficult. In some cases, i smooth the photo out a little and "re-add" a grain texture throughout all of it for consistency.
D-Zine
10-28-2005, 02:31 AM
Once again, great job on the photo restoration Jason! It looks great!
:D :D :D
I hate feet! If it were me, I would probobly crop it but that's because I'm not so hot at photo restoration...LOL!
Neballer
10-28-2005, 07:31 AM
lol @ d-zine.
Ya just crop em off. :D
Mad props to you Jason and your healing brush, very nice job.
Jason Fraker
10-28-2005, 02:29 PM
Liam, I'm almost ashamed to say how long I spent on this particular project (around 18 hours, give or take), and I'm definately ashamed to say how much I'm getting paid for it. Pathetic. It's a friend of my dad's, and of course he wanted a friend price. Plus, I thought there would be a quick way to eliminate most of the cracks, but they were too big and it just looked like a big blurry mess unless I cloned/healed them out, fraction of an inch by fraction of an inch.
Thanks for all the compliments! The restoration work is a lot of fun for me.
cool boy
11-04-2005, 12:14 AM
Mynock, Good eye about the feet. I'm gonna have to figure something out there. I tried distorting, rotating, flipping, etc, but they never looked quite right...
I did a little fixin. Here's the before and after version. Hope you like it :)
PersonasBinar
11-04-2005, 12:42 AM
Nice one!
vtwin_gary
11-04-2005, 02:15 AM
I did a little fixin. Here's the before and after version. Hope you like it :)
much better.
the original job was great but the feet had to be fixed this works now.