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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: 14668 · Filesize: 38.9kb, 196.4kb · Dimensions: 1000 x 869 ·
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Marc

Junior Member

Registered: January 2004
Location: Leverkusen, Germany
Posts: 8

7/15/2004 10:40am

Cool result! Amazing... as all of your work.
You've restored amazing details and excellent colors.

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pjb

Member

Registered: August 2002
Location: Casselberry, Florida
Posts: 74

7/15/2004 1:01pm

Wow and double Wow!! Excellent work. Your time and effort really payed off.

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Gary Richardson

Moderator

Registered: March 2004
Location: Yorkshire, England
Posts: 2,717

7/15/2004 5:09pm

Excellent job Matt as always, the cake is a real tour-de-force. Re-arranging the crockery is definitely the way to go, the table would have looked too empty otherwise. Cropping the shot really gave it better balance.

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ckc108

Junior Member

Registered: August 2003
Location: Singapore
Posts: 1

7/20/2004 12:26am

I like how you have rearrange the table to get rid of the clutter. Nice job. You make the picture look so symmetrical. Bravo.

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Forget the past. Cherish the present.

Matt Roberts

Junior Member

Registered: December 2002
Location: Australia

7/20/2004 7:18am

Thanks for the comments Marc, Pjb, Gary and Ckc108,

I enjoyed doing this one. It came out better than I expected.

Matt

Cvandever

Junior Member

Registered: May 2003
Location: Crossville, TN
Posts: 3

7/20/2004 8:36am

wow wonderful job. I like the place settings on the table. Looks very elegant.

Timbo

Junior Member

Registered: July 2004
Location: Sheffield UK

7/20/2004 12:38pm

Absolutely outstanding. Effort equals results. You really must have put in some effort on this one.

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It's better to burn out than fade away!

W. Rose
Senior Member

Registered: August 2003
Location: Manteca, Ca
Posts: 105

8/7/2004 1:49pm

Excellent work, I love the way you kept the time period and the setting of the table.
Wayne

Matt Roberts

Junior Member

Registered: December 2002
Location: Australia

8/7/2004 6:32pm

Cvandever, Timbo and Wayne,
Thanks for the comments.

Wayne, this retouch still has a pinkish cast to it.
I kept the cast in the hope that it would look a bit like
a 1950 era photo where the color had faded.

Matt

johnc

Junior Member

Registered: March 2004
Location: auburn, maine

8/14/2004 3:37pm

awsum work

Neve

Senior Member

Registered: July 2004
Location: Australia
Posts: 836

9/28/2004 1:25am

Amazing effort and excellent result.

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Cheers
Pauline

lavamatica

Junior Member

Registered: September 2004
Location: San Diego

9/29/2004 11:28pm

This is great work! I love learning from all who post here!

Matt Roberts

Junior Member

Registered: December 2002
Location: Australia

9/30/2004 1:55am

Thanks Johnc, Neve and Lavamatica,

I think I got lucky with this one.
It came out better than I expected.

Matt

PixiePirate

Junior Member

Registered: March 2004
Location: Philadelphia suburbs
Posts: 22

10/20/2004 11:36pm

Very,very,very niceley done! I am so jealous of your cake! I couldn't tell what was what when i tried to fix it......
Anyway, I hope you don't think I am being too picky, but is there anyway you can try brightening up the skintones? They just seem a bit muddy to me....could just be my monitor though.....

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Keep Creating!
-Mindy

"To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage. "Georgia O'Keeffe

Matt Roberts

Junior Member

Registered: December 2002
Location: Australia

10/21/2004 9:13am

Thanks PixiePirate,

Trying to repair that blown out blurred mess that was a cake was a nightmare.
There were a quite a few times I thought of pasting in a new cake.

Re the skin tones - I threw a quickmask around the couples faces and lightened them a little. You were right, it was an improvement.

Matt

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