I'm a newlywed. Got married on 7-7-07. My wife has been through two house fires and has lost almost everything from her childhood, including many baby pictures.

She was given a baby picture as a wedding gift by her aunt. The only problem with it is that it looks like it's been through a lot. It's bent, has some scratches, stains, etc.

Just wanted to see if someone could work some magic on this photo (http://jac2.com/jac2/Sheena_15mo.bmp).

Hi jacannon,

Welcome to RetouchPro. The main purpose of this site is to help members retouch their own work. I did just a little so that you could see that your picture has possibilities. If you do retouching, it would be helpful to know what program you use. Not all members use the same program. I am not a professional retoucher but will give it another go this evening when I return from work unless someone else has done it.

dc

Could have spent more time on it, but here is mine:

I use Photoshop CS3.

The green on the picture is my main concern. I know that I could use the healing brush on it or the clone tool. The only thing is, I don't want it to end up looking like a water-color painting.

Hi,
I am a newbie, new to restoring and to this forum. But I did spend an hour or two on your photo, and here is my effort. Certainly a good one for restoration .
Hayhill

Hello everybody, this is my first post
This is my job

Here's a start... I only messed with it for about 30 minutes. A lot of Healing Tool and also used Polaroid twice to remove the smaller light/dark scratches... I know where her dress meets her left leg needs to be softened as well...

Hello everybody, this is my first post
This is my job

Guess I'll be the first to say "Welcome!!"

Nice job. How did you get it to look so sharp?

Guess I'll be the first to say "Welcome!!"

Nice job. How did you get it to look so sharp?

Forgive my English, but Spanish, and I am not write very well
I did it with patience based Clone stamp with normal mode, lighten and darken with opacity of 15-25% and patch tool and healing brush tool
I made a paths of the baby to separate Background and this will apply a filter surface
The baby is one of the techniques applied to the skin is in the tutorials

The baby is one of the techniques applied to the skin is in the tutorials

Could you post the link to this tutorial? I'd really like to see it...

Had time this evening to complete my efforts. A great picture for practice.

dc

Could you post the link to this tutorial? I'd really like to see it...

For example
http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=209
http://tutorialpulse.com/49/superb-skin-airbrush-technique/

Maybe a blue dress might be interesting.

dc

jacannon, welcome to RetouchPRO.

one question here; you said you wanted to remove the green. all green? all? or just that bit in front there that doesnt belong to the original image?

I titled this post "Remove green..." because that was the main problem I had in restoring this photo. Everything else that needed cleaning up I could do.

After a few days of playing around with it, I came to a nice finished product.

I removed the green mostly with the clone tool. The arm was VERY difficult to clean, but I ended up making a gradient patch that matched the arm color and then stretched and warped it into place over the arm. Applied Gaussian Blur to the patch, touched up the edges, applied a film grain so that it wouldn't look plastic, and then dodged/burned some spots.

Finished product... (wife loves it!) :-)

You did a lovely job on the pic, your wife should be very pleased with the result:)