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Dennis Povey
Junior Member
Registered: February 2002
Location: nr Knutsford Cheshire England
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A very outstanding restoration back to the original Well done.
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Mike Needham
Senior Member
Registered: April 2002
Posts: 411
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Top notch work  the shadowing and tone are just right and you have dealt with the background well too.
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dcarr
Senior Member
Registered: July 2002
Location: Glendale, New York
Posts: 275
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You cleaned that up very well. Good job.
Debbie
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themanda
Senior Member
Registered: December 2002
Location: Texas
Posts: 135
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very nice! you did a terrific job on her eyes!
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Amanda
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Nick Carter
Junior Member
Registered: March 2002
Location: Leichhardt, Queensland, Australia
Posts: 12
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Very good bar for two glaring points, you have the line of her neck and hair wrong on her right hand side, it really shows up in the expanded version, and the eye white in the left eye is too strong compared to the right, after all that eye is in more shadow than the right. The eyebrows show too much evidence of the smudge tool. Otherwise a nice clean up job. :up:
Nick
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paglock
Junior Member
Registered: July 2002
Location: Bradenton
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Nick, If you look at the orig. photo the white of her left eye is slightly lighter than the right. When I restore, I belive that less is more. When I was working with the hair I was at a 3-6 pixels with the healing brush and cloning tool and used it very sparingly. If you were to desaturate and raise the light levels you will see that the hair was barly touched. I also work with a copy of the original open in a window next to the one I am working on in the same magnification so not to vary too much from the orig. I highly recommend this so not to leave too much to the imagination. Otherwise you end up painting not restoring.
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Nick Carter
Junior Member
Registered: March 2002
Location: Leichhardt, Queensland, Australia
Posts: 12
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Oh! dear!
look at the eye under high mag, I use 300 - 400%, you'll see that the right eye has been damaged to an extent making it look darker, scroll down you'll see that the hair goes behind her neck, not in front, and that is NOT imagination. I also work with a copy of the original minimized for quick comparison, but mainly with a smaller extra view copy to see how fine adjustments affect overall. All those cracks, blemishes, dirt, dust etc, were NOT on the original, so you have to try to see what could be behind them, and that takes imagination coupled with experience and observation. In a restoration if you only wish to go part way 'less is more', is fine. Me, I prefer to go the extra yard, spend more time, and try and look back to the original. When I give a critique, I will not be sycophantic, but will attempt to give criticism as well as praise. Overall that was a thumbs UP not down.
Nick
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paglock
Junior Member
Registered: July 2002
Location: Bradenton
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phili1
Senior Member
Registered: March 2002
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 237
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Real nice job on a hard restore job.
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hanuman
Junior Member
Registered: December 2002
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 5
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Excellent, I am utterly impressed. As you say, "less is more" and it brings up the question of what is a "restoration". I think you are perfectly right in not making a "new" version and you have retained what is so important - her "look", that hard to define expression that she has which is that tiny little bit of a suppressed smile.
Since we are doing this for ourselves, we are the client, but I doubt if any client would question this restoration....except for the neck area
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KenB
Senior Member
Registered: July 2002
Location: Michigan
Posts: 186
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You did a great job, shows up a little dark on my monitor, might just be me though.
Ken
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