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ajcutler Member Registered: August 2003 Location: Potomac, Maryland Posts: 77 users gallery	Sakat, your Mother was very pretty, and this is what I did to restore her photograph: Fixed the bottom of her outfit with cloning, and removed some marks Cleaned up the marks on her face with cloning Cleaned up her hair with extensive cloning, and added some highlights with a soft very small brush with low opacity on a separate layer Used a curves layer to create better contrast in her eyes, hair and face Created a slightly feathered selection of the woman Created a new layer and used a gray radial gradient for a new background Copied the woman to a new layer on top of the new background On a new merged layer, applied a glaussian blur with a hide all mask, and with a low opacity smooth brush painted in smoothness on her face and neck I may do a colorized version if I get the time. Alan
	· Date: 9/21/2005 · Views: 5133 · Filesize: 16.3kb, 142.5kb · Dimensions: 588 x 800 ·
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Timbo

Junior Member

Registered: July 2004
Location: Sheffield UK

9/21/2005 12:10pm

Nice one aj ........love the facial tones. Don't bother colourising, this is cool as it is (y) .

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RKAA
Junior Member

Registered: June 2005

9/21/2005 4:32pm

Nicely sculpted physiognomy indeed - quite impressive.
I would haved added a wee bit soft grain texture to her cheeks and forehead, but perhaps my monitor is on the bright side. (And who's talking.. I have an entry here as well and I burned out most surface of her face)

ajcutler

Member

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

9/21/2005 4:47pm

Thank you Timbo (skilled creator of the Convertabubble).

Also thank you RKAA, will consider you suggestion of grain texture.

Alan

Lorraine

Senior Member

Registered: September 2001
Location: Flemington, NJ
Posts: 208

9/22/2005 4:37am

Excellent work, Alan. Her facial features have so much depth. I love how you made her eyes stand out.

Lorraine

Shalford
Member

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

9/22/2005 5:46am

Nice to see your work again Alan!

This is a wonderful restore.
The eyes are magnificent.
I can't make any critisisms, nothing to critisise.
Brilliant, Well done Alan.

Hope all's well

Regards

Steve

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Steve

ajcutler

Member

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

9/22/2005 2:15pm

Lorraine, thank you very much . I did try to give her face depth, and put some work into her eyes.

Steve, always nice to hear from you, and thanks for the nice words. Hope all's well with you too.

Alan

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