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marlenes Junior Member Registered: December 2005 users gallery	First, I made a layer for the 3 girls on the left, then adjusted the upper right corner, and made a layer for the tallest girl. Then I fixed the bricks ~ copy / paste / clone / healing patch / burn / dodge... Next I worked on the tallest girl, I used the smallest girls (girl #1) nose, some of girl #2 and #3's mouth. Found some hair in an old photo similar to hers,. She was the most challenging. Did alot of the same for the others, but not as much reconstruction on the faces. I made an overlay layer to make the contrast pop. For the color, I used 3 layers in different modes at different opacities. 1 on multiply, 1 on overlay, and 1 on color
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Matt Roberts

Junior Member

Registered: December 2002
Location: Australia

1/21/2006 10:49am

I really like your work on this tough restoration Marlenes,
Fine work on the big girls mouth eye and hair.
The white dresses look great, it helps the girls stand out from the wall.

Matt

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Lorraine

Senior Member

Registered: September 2001
Location: Flemington, NJ
Posts: 219

1/23/2006 7:57am

marlenes,

I'm in awe of the work you've done here. Your restoration is crisp, clean and I escpecially love how you were able to realistically create the missing face on the oldest girl.

Lorraine

marlenes
Junior Member

Registered: December 2005

1/23/2006 8:26am

Thanks Matt and Lorraine! I really appreciate the compliments. I think I'm addicted now. :-)

Matt Roberts

Junior Member

Registered: December 2002
Location: Australia

1/23/2006 10:18am

Hi Marlenes,

Neat Image does a great job removing jpg artifacts and grain.
I got my copy free from a magazine.
Years of experience has taught me that anything free is unlikely to work well.
But Neat Image amazed me.
It reduces grain without softening edges. In fact it seems to sharpen edges.
I find it does a great job on 8 of 10 grainy photos.
I think there is a Neat Image web site.

Matt

marlenes
Junior Member

Registered: December 2005

1/23/2006 10:50am

thanks, I will look for it, so, its its own program and not a plug in for photo shop right?

Matt Roberts

Junior Member

Registered: December 2002
Location: Australia

1/23/2006 11:02am

My version is old. It is not a plug-in.
But newer versions may work as plug-ins.

Matt

marlenes
Junior Member

Registered: December 2005

1/23/2006 3:56pm

Matt-

On the window, I'm not sure, but I thought that the lighter parts around the edges were sky and the darker in the middle was a reflection of a tree, however, I'm sure some of it's dirt. Anyway, that's just my interpretation. Just mentioning this from what you said to Lorraine and how she cleaned the window. :-)
Marlene

Peth

Member

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

1/24/2006 3:22am

Great work Marlenes... a really sensitive retouch/ I seldom see that in peoples work

Keep it up.

marlenes
Junior Member

Registered: December 2005

1/24/2006 1:46pm

thank you Peth!

DanUK
Junior Member

Registered: January 2006
Posts: 6

1/26/2006 9:29am

Excellent work Marlenes.
Great repair and I really like the subtle colouring.

marlenes
Junior Member

Registered: December 2005

2/1/2006 8:35am

thanks Dan,

I wasn't sure to put the coloring in or not, but it seems to be favored over my black and white.

sukku
Junior Member

Registered: December 2004
Location: India, Bangalore
Posts: 6

2/4/2006 8:35am

What u have done shows that if u have a mind to fix it u can...Awesome restore on this one. :up: Damn i'll say u have a lot of patience. The fact that u didnt clean up the window somehow seems right to me... it goes perfectly well with the unfinished unplastered wall.

marlenes
Junior Member

Registered: December 2005

2/7/2006 4:12pm

Thank you!

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