Retouch of damaged family photos
Unfortunately it was a very small original,
therefore making the retouch much harder as there was far less detail to work with.
Retouch was very slow - one pixel at a time.
Biggest difficulty is to retain family likenesses and facial expressions. You can't airbrush or use artisitic licence because it has to be real.
It was impossible to resurrect parts of the lower section of the photo without painting the legs and feet of the girl on the left, so I felt it was truer to the original to crop the photo at that point. The family were very happy with the final result. |
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Main image:
Photographic PhotoShop based digital composite by Pamela Notley, 2009
Changed haircolour, shortened and widened fringe to show right eye, copied outside part of left eye and reversed to right eye, brightened eyes, changed eye colour, added eyeshadow, cloned forehead and right cheek, painted lips.Tonal curve, channel mixer adjustment applied.
Original model shot:
Digital shot by Sjodahl & Richardson – Creative Photography 2008
Model Silvia Grenova
Make up by miss rubyrouge
Hair by Lyndall Vile ( x-lox)
Clothes by Masterslave
Backgrounds and tiger:
Scanned slides shot by Pamela Notley
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Main image:
Photographic PhotoShop based digital composite by Pamela Notley, 2009
Reversed and rotated model. There were no lower dress folds so copied and pasted lower sections, smudged and cloned folds. Replaced hair. Blended flowers sections as foreground and erased some areas.Tonal curve, channel mixer adjustment and filter applied.
Original model shot:
Digital shot by Sjodahl & Richardson – Creative Photography 2008
Model Silvia Grenova
Make up by miss rubyrouge
Hair by Lyndall Vile ( x-lox)
Clothes by Masterslave
Foreground:
Hair and flowers - digital shots by Pamela Notley |
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