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Baby and Crib?

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Nick Carter Junior Member Registered: March 2002 Location: Leichhardt, Queensland, Australia Posts: 12 users gallery	Nick Carter Using Photoshop 6.1 1] Made a background level copy. 2] Tried screen and then burn mode, there was definitely something behind the baby. 3] Picked the cyan channel as having more info, changed to greyscale then back to RGB. 4] As this is a restoration challenge, I decided not to take the easy way out, and to try and find out just what is there. 5] Selected baby and put him [with those boots must be a him ]safely in his own level. 6] Went back to selection layer reselected and cut. No distractions from him. 7] Using the burn pen at 15% opacity and 100 pix I very lightly [the 'graphire' pen is perfect for this] went over the image. First horizontally then vertically. Lines began to appear. 8] Went to levels, raised the black and lowered the white. Then to selective colour and accentuated black. 9] I did this over and over, concentrating more on the shape that began to appear. Like an Archaeologist using a fine brush retrieving an artifact. 10] It is a crib, not sure if an actual artifact or a backdrop, as the light on the shelf that baby is sitting on appears to go around the base of the crib. I hope that Lorraine Capobianco has a go at this restoration, she's the tops at this kind of work, will not forget the wonderful job she did of the Bride standing on the steps. 11] Went to the baby level and started working on that. Went to 400 zoom, and began taking out the imperfections. Using mixtures of clone, burn and blur. 12] Merged the levels, adjusted brightness/contrast, size and DPI, sent off.
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dcarr
Senior Member

Registered: July 2002
Location: Glendale, New York
Posts: 275

9/22/2002 10:56pm

Wonderful work Nick. Alot of painstaking work there. You must be very satisfied.
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DJ Dubovsky

Senior Member

Registered: August 2001
Location: Upper Penninsula of Michigan
Posts: 1,659

9/22/2002 11:03pm

The baby looks incredible. The detail looks great but what happened to the background? Is that really what was buried in those shadows?

Great job Nick.
DJ

Tom Willis
Junior Member

Registered: June 2002
Location: Wakefield, Quebec, Canada

9/22/2002 11:16pm

That makes you and me, Nick - the only two to "see" something in the background. All I got was foliage and an aging Rock star. This is more interesting - spooky even. :-)

...Tom

Scott Rudy
Junior Member

Registered: September 2002
Location: Ohio, USA
Posts: 18

9/23/2002 11:13am

The object that can barely be seen in the background is the headboard of a bed. The photo was taken in a bedroom with the baby sitting on a vanity bench or stool at the side of the bed.

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Scott Rudy

molund
Junior Member

Registered: August 2002
Location: stockholm, sweden

9/23/2002 11:53am

I think a lot of us saw this object in the background but decided that we really didn´t know how to restore it without to much guessing. To me it looked like something for the kid to sleep in, some kind of small basketlike bed. Anyway , this thing demanded on further investigations, and there was no time for it. The rest of the background seemed so damaged to me that trying to save details from it would be more like doing a Rorsach test. I thought it was better to look at the background as just a background and take a step to from restoration towards retouching.

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mats

Dennis Povey
Junior Member

Registered: February 2002
Location: nr Knutsford Cheshire England

9/23/2002 5:02pm

It,s all been said, I will give you the rating instead

Nick Carter

Junior Member

Registered: March 2002
Location: Leichhardt, Queensland, Australia
Posts: 12

9/24/2002 2:19am

Thanks for the info Scott, can you tell what the cubical structure above the babies head could be. It was not until I stood about 2 metres back from my monitor and slightly defocused my eyes that I began to see something there.
I can see Tom's, Vase and flowers, maybe not enough structure to bring those out with the methods I used, they 'appear' to be closer than the bed.
Molund, unless you try, how do you come to realise and understand your limits, if it turns out to be a disaster, you can always, with these programs, junk it and go back to your original. There is no time limit on these challenges.
Dennis, thank you very much for the rating, there seems to be few going around recently.

summertimerules
Junior Member

Registered: July 2002
Location: PA
Posts: 18

9/24/2002 6:06pm

I couldn't see an object in the background at all. I think the baby looks good. His features stand out pretty well and look pretty clean, but it just doesn't look as good as it could against that background, plus he looks cut out. But I do think the baby is restored rather well.

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peace

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