View Full Version : Need help with grandparents picture


rosierosierosie
04-01-2008, 04:22 PM
I would like to know if anyone can help me with this picture of my grandparents, its a scan picture of them but it seem my grandfather ride sight is partial missing i did the best I could any suggestions would help. thank you

TommyO
04-01-2008, 07:21 PM
Since it is a front view and he seems very symetrical, many people would simply select his left side, copy to a new layer, flip it and move it into place as his right side. You can them make a few subtle changes to make it look less obvious. Select smaller areas if you wish, or pick a large area and simply erase areas on the upper layer that make it seem un-natural.

hawkeye60
04-01-2008, 07:54 PM
I copied some of the right side of his suit to a new layer, then flipped it horizontally to repair the left side. Same with the background and the chair repairs. The rest is cloning, painting and a little sharpening.

The sepia version was done with a hue/saturation layer set to colorize.

DCobb
04-03-2008, 08:50 PM
Interesting challenge. This is my try.

dc

unimatrix001
04-04-2008, 11:32 AM
gave this a shot about as good as i could do

rpsparks
04-05-2008, 12:30 PM
Here's my quick go at it...

rosierosierosie
04-05-2008, 03:44 PM
the picture looks beautiful thank you so much, how did you make the table next to my grandfather larger it makes the picture look so much bigger. Now I know what he must of look like when he was younger. thanks again I am going to try to change the background I will post it. thanks so much.

rosierosierosie
04-05-2008, 04:21 PM
I extracted the picture into a different background and changed to the color to black and white. any suggestions would be appreciated. I pretty new at this. thank you so much.

rpsparks
04-05-2008, 05:39 PM
the picture looks beautiful thank you so much, how did you make the table next to my grandfather larger it makes the picture look so much bigger. Now I know what he must of look like when he was younger. thanks again I am going to try to change the background I will post it. thanks so much.

If you are in fact talking to me, I just enlarged the canvas just a tad bit and then used replace mode of the healing brush tool, for the bottom I just followed the angle of the small portion of good edge of the table and filled everything in on the way up.

rosierosierosie
04-05-2008, 07:06 PM
Yes you the one that enlarge the picture it looks great and real, how to you like the back ground I did. thank so much for your help.

rpsparks
04-05-2008, 07:56 PM
It looks fine but I'm no expert... I'm more of a fan of original backgrounds. I guess the only criticism that I have would be scale. If you look at the pot behind the man compared to the man/woman, The pot/flowers look large.

rosierosierosie
04-06-2008, 05:58 AM
I was trying to have my grandfather lean on that table maybe I try to make my grandparents a little larger. thanks again