Photo Restoration - - Work in Progress....100 year old photo

ambrose007 · #1 11-16-2005, 11:41 AM

I am currently working on restoring a 100 year old photo that was hand colored
below i have the links to the both the orignal and the restoration i have begun
i am looking for tips and or idea's on how to improve this piece. currently using CS2

orginal picture shot with 12mp fuji camera
http://www.digitalartistz.com/restore/orig1.jpg

restoration so far
http://www.digitalartistz.com/restore/rest1.jpg

any input would be helpfull

Ambrose

twinkissed · #2 11-16-2005, 11:54 AM

The first thing I noticed were the lady's eyes... they seem too blue to me. They just kept grabbing my attention even though I briefly looked at it.

philbach · #3 11-16-2005, 01:43 PM

I agree that the eyes are too blue. There also is a scratch near his left knee. Other than that it looks like your close to being doen with this restore.

byRo · #4 11-16-2005, 02:04 PM

Welcome to RetouchPRO, Ambrose!

Besides the eyes, I noticed the dress. You seem to have made a whole lot of changes. In the original the pleats and folds are quite clear to see, whereas in your retoration they have completely disappeared.

You've made a good start

, but I'd consider doing the dress again.

Rô

Kraellin · #5 11-16-2005, 09:14 PM

you also have a camera distortion going on here. if you look at the gentleman you'll see that he just doesnt quite look right, almost like he's leaning back and to our right. this can be corrected with distortion correction tools in p-shop and psp. just be careful of over correction and changing aspects and so on.

oh, and welcome to RP!

Craig