Registered: August 2004 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 225 users gallery
This is my firest restoration challenge on this site. I figured I'd give it a shot with this photograph. I didn't want to get rid of too much of the texture so I limited myself to smoothing and eliminating the harsher cracks and folds. I used the clone stamp and heal tool for most of the finer work and used separate layers for the coloring. Ther are actually four layers of color to get the different skin tones in the face. That way there's a variation of color from light to dark. I did this using the lumiocity selection. I liked the fading of the picture at the bottom and left it as is. I guess for a full restoration I would probably have to fix that but it almost acts like a natural vignette. I hope this description helps.
Registered: October 2003 Location: Alberta Posts: 157
8/13/2004 12:06pm
This looks really good. Good clean-up, and your coloring really fills out and adds dimension to his face (I like the tonal range you got). The charcoal hat and tunic looks great with all the brass bits. Need a little definition of the ear/cheek and hat/bg seam at the top, but a very nice restore.
johnim Junior Member
Registered: April 2004 Posts: 3
8/13/2004 8:46pm
Nice job like your skin tone.
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