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Tom Willis Junior Member Registered: June 2002 Location: Wakefield, Quebec, Canada users gallery	Using PhotoImpact Version 5. While looking over this really great photo, I noticed three unusual things. (1) I think the image has been flipped horizontally (the writing on the sign near his head, the steering wheel of the car, this is probably in America) (2) The "moire" pattern is only on the left side. (3) There are three "tonal" areas, approximately in thirds. The bottom third of the photo has the least tonal range, the top third has the most. These last two things would determine how I would approach this challenge. First of all though, flip the image horizontally. From now on, "left" and "right" will refer to this flipped image. I wanted to get rid of the "moire" pattern first because it bugged me. I could think of no automatic way so I chose to dodge the dark areas of the pattern. (Burning the light areas would have left the right side of the photo darker than the left thus creating more work.) I'm better moving the mouse left and right so I flipped the photo 90 degrees for this step. I used a brush size of 40 and soft edge of 50. Applied a Tone Map ( Hi:+8, Mid:0, Shadow:-8) to the entire photo. This also helped emphasize the 3 tonal areas. Selected the lower third (approximately through his hat) with a soft edge of 50 pixels. Applied Brightness -25 and Contrast +5 to this area and then dodged & burned this area's (inevitable) border line with the middle third. Now the bottom 2/3rds have similar tonal range. Selected the upper third (just below his shoulder but excluding the shiny bits of the car) and applied a Brightness adjustment of +10 to now match the bottom 2/3rds. Apply Tone Map Mid:-15 to the entire image. This took away a lot of the "haze". From here on it's mostly damage control. As always, I started with the face. Using very small brushes, the damage to the skin was dodged and burned away. The things I remember are the strange growth near his right nostril, finding his right ear and how difficult it was to repair his right lower lip and right eye. (Remember, I have flipped the photo, left to right.) The only thing I cloned on the face was the iris and pupil from his left eye to his right. The background was cleaned up normally - clone, dodge, burn... I should get a T-shirt with that on it. The white wisps intruding all around the edge of the photo were de-emphasized but not eliminated. They act as an appropriate border for this super photo.
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Flora

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Registered: March 2002
Location: Milan, Italy
Posts: 2,323

7/29/2002 9:31am

Hi Tom!

Wow....I really like what you managed to do with this picture!!!

The moiré pattern is gone....and you have kept the image, particularly Benny's suit, very clean.....

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Mogens_Bohl_P
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Registered: June 2002
Location: Vest-Sjaelland (West Zealand), Denmark
Posts: 3

7/29/2002 4:54pm

Great job Tom,
The suit and shadows are very good

Ed_L

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Registered: August 2001
Location: northwest Indiana, about 45 minutes from Chicago, IL
Posts: 2,824

7/29/2002 10:14pm

I agree. Highlights and shadows look great. Nice work.

Ed

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Doug Nelson

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Registered: August 2001
Posts: 6,303

7/30/2002 10:22am

Excellent tonality. Good job on cleanup overall. Some vertical lines still evident.

Excellent description.

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DJ Dubovsky

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Registered: August 2001
Location: Upper Penninsula of Michigan
Posts: 1,659

7/30/2002 10:00pm

Tom,
Excellent job. A slight bit of lines but I know how hard that is to get rid of so I can't find fault there.

Mig
Senior Member

Registered: August 2001
Location: SF
Posts: 265

7/31/2002 2:56am

You did a nice job with the moire on this without it being too dark. I liked your method of removing the moire pattern. I just read about this technique in the bookstore.
There is a little touch up with the clone tool in darken/lighten mode that may have helped smooth it out a touch and give some polish, but otherwise great job.

mig

foreigner

Junior Member

Registered: July 2002
Location: Sydney

7/31/2002 7:14am

very good job you did here,
I like how you removed lines, and still kept everything sharp,
that left eye is a little strange, light for eye in shadow
job around his nose is excellent
this is very difficult chalenge, so many things to do...

and that steering wheel was so in a right place for us from down under

katie

Junior Member

Registered: July 2002
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 17

8/1/2002 2:10am

I'm impressed and still getting up courage to attempt
this one.

Maybe the weekend I will try.

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