Photo Restoration - - Help with bottom of picture please.

nebgranny · #1 11-23-2005, 08:33 PM

Hi All :
I am just about done with a restore. I am very green at this but it is going ok for me. I have this last part, and before i try anythng I would like suggestions please!! Thanks ever so much. Neb

bart_hickman · #2 11-23-2005, 09:01 PM

Looks like a job for a clone brush.

Bart

Kraellin · #3 11-23-2005, 11:51 PM

yup, i would agree. time to break out the clone.

Craig

nebgranny · #4 11-24-2005, 12:51 AM

For some reason my clone brush was not working right, so was looking for another way. I found the problem and away I went . Thanks Neb

Kraellin · #5 11-24-2005, 07:24 AM

neb,

good. post some results when you can.

Craig

nebgranny · #6 11-26-2005, 01:20 AM

Here is the finished work Craig. Neb

nebgranny · #7 11-26-2005, 01:24 AM

This is what I started with. Remember this is one of my first restore tries!! Neb.

bart_hickman · #8 11-26-2005, 02:32 AM

Looks great!

I noticed the girl holding a doll's skirt shifted to the right--why'd you do that?

Bart

nebgranny · #9 11-26-2005, 07:14 AM

To be honest,this is just practice for me. My clone brush was not working ,it looked smeared. Nothing I did improved it !!

I decided the easiest thing for me to do was to make a selection of her dress on the unrepaired photo, and paste it on the one I was working on. Then clone again.

My gosh you have sharp eyes..I would not have thought it that noticeable!!

ONLY at RetouchPro would this be seen!!

Neb

psppal · #10 11-26-2005, 11:03 AM

When your Clone b. failed, you was working in a layer without any data in
it.

Try making a duplicate layer.....or make a slection of the area, and
promote this selection to layer.

But you are off to a good start, I also am a newbie.

Regards, PSPPAL

nebgranny · #11 11-26-2005, 12:21 PM

Thank you from one newbie to another!! I appreciate your input. I bet you are right, sometimes I fail to look at which layer I am working on. This was one of them. Good Luck as you learn,have you posted any of your work yet? I would love to see anything you have accomplished!! Neb

bart_hickman · #12 11-26-2005, 05:28 PM

Haha! Well I was flipping back and forth between them, so that difference stood out. Somebody just looking at one or the other would probably not notice.

What were you trying to clone out? Is it the crack on the bottom of her dress or the faint crease running horizontally?

Bart

nebgranny · #13 11-26-2005, 07:40 PM

I believe it was the crease across the front of the picture.

Well I should not have posted the untouched one bart..and no one would have know LOL. Being a beginner I probably do things you would not think of as you and most all here are far more advanced and have many techniques to use that I do not think of or know!! Neb

Kraellin · #14 11-26-2005, 11:11 PM

well, 1st or 101st, neb, it looks good. nice job!

Craig

nebgranny · #15 11-27-2005, 10:14 AM

Thank you Craig.
I have been afraid to post any of my tries as so many people here do such great work!! I do appreciate your kind words which were encourageing! I understand it was an easy fix though,but you gotta start somewhere!
Neb