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Big Hug
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lurch
Senior Member
Registered: July 2006
Location: SoCal
Posts: 523
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This one was fun - colorful, festive, and heartwarming. What a charming kid! What I did:
1. Cropped off border and straightened.
2. Cloned in missing areas (on a separate layer) so the white junk wouldn't throw off color balancing.
3. Merged, and ran a levels adjustment layer to balance color.
4. Added another clone layer to finish off cracks and do more cleanup.
5. Merged again, selected the shadow by the boy's chin with feathering, added a hue/sat adjustment layer and increased red saturation to decrease purple haze there.
6. Ran a levels adjustment layer to lighten the midtones a bit.
7. Used another hue/sat adjustment layer to decrease cyan (-50), increase blue ( 25) in the jeans.
8. Cloned texture from Santa's right knee to his left, burned in what I hope looks like some shape (artist I am not!).
9. Did a little cloning and healing brush cleanup on the last merged layer, and
done!
Edit: Took image into Lab, tweaked b channel to reduce yellow cast in jeans (I'm still not happy with the junk there . . .) and sharpened Lightness channel (forgot to sharpen before . . .)
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Keywords: SantaLap, hug, restoration challenge #91
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Matt Roberts
Junior Member
Registered: December 2002
Location: Australia
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Fine work Carole,
Great job removing the yellow caste.
Chair, Santa and the boy look good to me.
I gave up fighting discolored areas in color photos like this.
I'd select the jeans, de-saturate and use Hue & Sat. etc.
to replicate the original color. It's a fast fix.
Matt
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Cassidy
Senior Member
Registered: September 2002
Location: Australia
Posts: 1,104
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Like the kink in the created pant leg
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Cass
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Lorraine
Senior Member
Registered: September 2001
Location: Flemington, NJ
Posts: 214
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lurch
Senior Member
Registered: July 2006
Location: SoCal
Posts: 523
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Thank you all. Makes me feel good to get positive comments from folks who are as skilled as you three :d.
Matt - thanks for the tip. It seems like every time I post I learn something neat from you.
Carole
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<C> - Photoshop CS5 on a Core 2 Duo iMac
Illegitimi non Carborundum
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TaylorOK
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Registered: March 2005
Location: USA
Posts: 31
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Carole,
I wrote a message in December to everyone who worked on this and then realized maybe people wouldn't see it there. Thanks so much for your great work on this and especially for the detailed steps (really helps this novice). This was the best gift ever for my friend.
Thanks,
Taylor
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