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Matt Roberts Junior Member Registered: December 2002 Location: Australia users gallery	I enjoyed working on this portrait. I tried hard to retain the look of the original. When I decided to add a touch of color, I made an effort to use subdued colors. (A first for a heavy-handed re-toucher such as I). Trying to create a complimentary background to this portrait looked tough-going. I selected the background and used a Retouch Pro tutorial (wall restoration), also used it on the skirt. Then I used a circular gradient fill with blend set to color. Skin tones – I selected the hands and face and sampled the skin tones of a lady in another photo. With the paintbrush –opacity 30 – blend mode set to color I painted in the new skin tones. I only hope I came close to Henrietta’s real skin tones. I left the white blown out top till last. I was going to repair it. But I started to like the top. I felt along with the background it helped make Henrietta a little more striking to the eye. I also intended doing something about the carpet, it was a mess. But when I added my colored background I decided to keep it. I wanted the photo to have an aged look and nothing looks more aged than that carpet! I apologize to other members for the lack of detail in my description. I am a tinkerer, I try to do this, do that, undo, do this, do that, undo, et cetera. By the time I get what I feel is an acceptable result, I can’t remember how I did it.
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Xaran
Senior Member

Registered: October 2003
Location: East Sussex, England
Posts: 533

12/3/2003 11:29am

Excellent Matt, the best yet.

Christine

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Shalford
Member

Registered: October 2003
Location: Solihull - United Kingdom
Posts: 67

12/3/2003 12:49pm

Matt:
If I had known you were going to produce this, I would not have bothered!!!
That is amazing.
Craftsmanship at it's best.
Brilliant Matt.

Steve.

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Steve

TUBORG
Junior Member

Registered: November 2003
Location: Sweden

12/3/2003 1:57pm

excellent work indeed

ajcutler

Member

Registered: August 2003
Location: Potomac, Maryland
Posts: 77

12/3/2003 3:05pm

Matt:
I think this is one of your best jobs yet. Every aspect of restoration and colorization is extremely well done.

Alan

Doug Colwell
Senior Member

Registered: October 2003
Location: Alberta
Posts: 157

12/3/2003 9:00pm

What an amazing restoration. You really pulled out all the stops.

Rawessence

Junior Member

Registered: November 2003
Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina
Posts: 17

12/4/2003 12:59am

OOOh! I Love it! I can't wait to show it to my Dad! She is his grandmother. I believe you have captured her face perfectly. She looks like my oldest aunt whom everyone says favors Henretta! Beautiful Job!

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It doesn't matter where you plant the seed; You'll reap the harvest - guaranteed!

Cuda

Junior Member

Registered: November 2003
Location: Atlanta, Georgia

12/4/2003 2:56am

Nice...great subdued background. Obviously this one deserved more time than origianlly thought!

vijayan

Member

Registered: January 2003
Location: Trivandrum, India
Posts: 73

12/5/2003 12:17am

Mat,
It is so beautiful, perfect, pleasing and it has a Classic look also ( Yuo are Good at this ... I remember the Regimental one..) . like allways I love this Great RESTORATION...

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Thanks,

Vijayan
vijayan@nova-concepts.com

Matt Roberts

Junior Member

Registered: December 2002
Location: Australia

12/5/2003 6:24am

Thanks to all for your comments,

I'm glad you liked it Rawessence
I've had trouble with portraits previously.

Matt

Paulie

Member

Registered: July 2003
Location: Sittingbourne Kent, England
Posts: 40

12/6/2003 5:55am

Only one thing to say about this......pure class!!

TwinbNJ

Senior Member

Registered: February 2003
Location: NJ
Posts: 375

12/7/2003 9:12pm

Fabulous -- just fabulous! This is just wonderful

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Jill

Nalty sr.
Junior Member

Registered: December 2003
Location: Patchogue NY. USA

12/12/2003 7:36pm

Matt-Great job,you set the bar a lot higher for all of us.
really nice work.

pixeltickler

Junior Member

Registered: July 2003
Location: Portland OR
Posts: 14

12/15/2003 12:40pm

Nice work Matt. Wondering how did you do the blouse eyelette? Or was it in the pic and I missed it?

Diane

Matt Roberts

Junior Member

Registered: December 2002
Location: Australia

12/16/2003 6:22am

Thanks Paulie, TwinbNJ,Nalty sr and Pixeltickler
for your kind comments.

Diane, I was at a loss how to do the blouse.
It was blown out and the top badly damaged.
I could swear Henrietta was wearing a long pearl necklace. But it would be a brave restorer who would do white pearls against a white blouse.

It's interesting to look at the three color restorations of Henrietta's blouse.
All are quite different.

vinilios
Junior Member

Registered: October 2003

12/24/2003 5:57am

masterpiece.I wonder how many hours did you actually spend on this.

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