Image Help - - Inlaws picture.. - Page 2

ChuckG · #16 11-18-2004, 06:25 PM

Thanks Flora your work flow was very helpful.

bazzelle · #17 11-19-2004, 04:15 PM

Thank you Flora and evryone else that has replied with advice. Flora, I will be able to walk through the steps you provided this weekend and will hopefully post a finished version Sunday. Thank you once again for all the help.

David Bazzelle
bazzelle@gmail.com

bazzelle · #18 12-13-2004, 03:39 PM

Wow finaly finished this picture. Please let me know what you think..
Added the before picture.

David Bazzelle

Gary Richardson · #19 12-14-2004, 01:51 AM

Hi David, really nice job. Just one question, there appears to be a series of vertical lines on the wooden framework behind the woman, these do not appear on the original. Are they there on your restore, or is it due to trying to accomodate the 100K file size limit.

bazzelle · #20 12-14-2004, 07:59 AM

They are on the restore, it is my attempt at a wood grain. After bring the details out in the lady it started to look like she was pasted on the background so I was tring to add more details to it also.

Thank you for taking a look..

David Bazzelle

Duv · #21 12-14-2004, 10:25 AM

David, I was wondering about that myself. Could I make a recommendation that you take a look at Mayang's Free Textures. I played a bit with one of his wood textures by dragging it into the selected railing, adjusted the bevel and emboss settings, then adjusted the Blend If sliders to let some of your effort show thru.
Just an idea.

Cheers
Dave

Gary Richardson · #22 12-14-2004, 12:43 PM

David, if you look at Duv's attempt, you will see the grain on the cross piece is horizontal as it should be, on yours its vertical, and not along the length of the frame as it should be. However, I think it looks better without the grain. This is of course just a personal opinion. Duv, thanks for the info for texture source, I'll be giving that a visit.

bazzelle · #23 12-14-2004, 02:16 PM

ok, here is what I was able to do.. Toned the grain way down, corrected it so the cross bar looks correct.

Flora · #24 12-15-2004, 12:38 AM

Hi everybody,

bazzelle,

You did a really good job in restoring this picture...

.... but I agree with Gary about the wooden framework ...

In my opinion, indipendently of the texture, the framework results 'too' well defined and sharp in comparison with the rest of the picture making it really "look like the lady was pasted on the background" .... Blending the contour of her dress with the background/framework might help a bit....