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Matt Roberts Junior Member Registered: December 2002 Location: Australia users gallery	Repair the photo and remove the color cast. Move the wedding cake between the couple and remove some of the clutter from the table. I used multiply on the blown out area of the table. This helped but it still needed a good hit with levels. I didn’t like the idea of vast empty spaces on the table. I re-arranged just about everything on the table. I tried hard to position the chairs, paintings, candles and crockery around the couple in a neat orderly fashion. Hopefully this would make the couple and cake in the center the focal point of this nice wedding photo. The wedding cake was badly blown out. I hit it with multiply and levels. Cutting and moving helped give sharper outer edges. The cake came out much better than I dared hope for. Boy, there was a lot of work in this one. There were just so many little things to tweak. I’m sure I missed something but I’m dizzy and tired. So I’m calling it quits. Good Luck to all who try this retouch. Matt
	· Date: 7/15/2004 · Views: 15541 · Filesize: 38.9kb, 196.4kb · Dimensions: 1000 x 869 ·
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PixiePirate

Junior Member

Registered: March 2004
Location: Philadelphia suburbs
Posts: 22

10/23/2004 12:09am

Awwwwww-thanks! It's the curse of working in a high-end photolab for 4 years. Now I give you an A+++++++!

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-Mindy

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philbach

Senior Member

Registered: March 2003
Location: Seabrook Island, SC
Posts: 1,171

1/24/2005 7:35am

Matt nice job. The table is much nicer looking, less messy and more symmetrical than the original. One wonders whether the submitter just wanted the cake moved or a "table re-arrangement." Very nice color.

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Phil

Matt Roberts

Junior Member

Registered: December 2002
Location: Australia

1/25/2005 5:38am

Phil - Got to admit I went overboard and re-set the whole table.
I had no plans to do this when I began this re-touch.
After I centered the cake I moved one plate.
One thing led to another and I ended up re-arranging everything.

Matt

Chazzy
Junior Member

Registered: January 2005
Location: Dixon Il

1/28/2005 9:28pm

Nice job. I think retaining the retro 1950 look (The era in which the pic was taken) was a very good idea. Works well.

Swampy

Senior Member

Registered: February 2005
Location: The Swamps of Florida
Posts: 4,417

2/9/2005 7:49pm

Amazing!! Good Work

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Peth

Member

Registered: August 2005
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 44

1/23/2006 1:11am

Patience of a saint and the touch of a master. Living proof that there IS talent in Australia if you look hard enough.

Matt Roberts

Junior Member

Registered: December 2002
Location: Australia

1/23/2006 7:23pm

Chazzy and Swampy - I really enjoyed working on this one.

Peth - Thanks for the comments.
Hey Peth, whats that New Zealand crack about
talent being hard to find here in Australia.
We have lots of talent here.
There is ....... ........ Naaah! He's a Sportsperson.
There is ...... ......... Naaah! He's a Sportsperson too.
Well there is .... ........... Naaah She is in sport too.
Err! I'll need more more time to think of a talented Aussie
who isn't a sportsperson.

Matt

_Vence
Junior Member

Registered: April 2006
Location: Russia, Novosibirsk

4/7/2006 7:40am

wow! excellent!
I trying do the same things but nothing.
And one small thing: the candles still not blazing...

Matt Roberts

Junior Member

Registered: December 2002
Location: Australia

4/8/2006 5:38am

Thanks for the comment _Vence,
That's a good idea lighting the candles.
It would have been a nice touch.

Matt

denschneider

Member

Registered: September 2002
Location: ontario canada
Posts: 81

5/2/2006 8:31am

Fantastic job!!!!!! Far better than the repair that I did for the couple(My mother and Father -inlaw) Their 50th anniversary is coming up in January 2007 so I think I will have to give this another go as there are very few pictures of their wedding left, This is about the best of them. once again fantastic job!

Rafale CG
Junior Member

Registered: June 2006
Location: Mexico

6/6/2006 5:51pm

Excellent in every way Matt!

Matt Roberts

Junior Member

Registered: December 2002
Location: Australia

6/7/2006 6:47am

Dennis - Thanks for this challenge.
I enjoyed working this fine old wedding photo.

Rafale - Glad you like it.
I wish more members did this challenge.

Matt

ThomasD
Junior Member

Registered: January 2006
Posts: 1

7/20/2006 8:27am

Great restoration/retouch - especially the cake and chairs. really sharp looking given the original.Looks like a hand coloured b&w image. Great work!

Matt Roberts

Junior Member

Registered: December 2002
Location: Australia

7/21/2006 1:51am

Thanks for the comments Thomas,
This photo brings back memories. It's 2 years old now.
It is no "Amber" or "Jenna" in the popularity stakes.
But I think it's a very good photo to practice restoration and coloring.

Matt

Burr
Junior Member

Registered: July 2005
Location: Antioch, Illinois

8/1/2006 10:00am

Amazing, simple great!

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