Help with regaining facial structure

[cate_55]

Wondered if anyone could help with this photo. I haven't started working on it yet. It has mold bits etc. But I wanted to know how to work on getting her facial structure and the right shoulder - badly damaged in wet.

Thanks
cate

[Ken Fournelle]

Cate,

Try copying the left side of her face, (camera right) and paste it over the right side. Flip the pasted piece horizontally and align with the Transform Tool. Then use a layer mask to bring back the original eye and other parts of the face. I think that will give you a good start.
k

[DCobb]

This is my try.

dc

[cate_55]

Thanks K and Dcobb

I'll give the mask and copying a go.
Cate

[Lasa]

Wow this one is a challenge...
See if I work on it some more...
Lasa

[CathyH]

I took the right side of her face and I copied it and blended it with a layers mask. then I used a lot of cloning and healing brush.
I also used some Dodge and Burn to darken her neck and hair.
this is very challenging photo.
Good luck

[Kraellin]

hi cate, and welcome to RP.

this is basically a restoration so i'm moving this to the restoration forum.

[Cameraken]

Hi Cate.

Straightened.
Copied right side of face to left
Painted over cracks
Added noise
Coloured
Vignette
Neat Inage

I think an artist could have got a better likeness.

Ken.

[klassylady25]

That was fun!

[Nan]

I'm new at this and I know I didn't get it right. I mostly wanted to see if I could get the facial features back.
Desaturated and used curves. Then made a layer to lightly trace a jaw line on the left and around the lips (erased it later). Selected the ear from the right and pasted it on the left. Cloned, airbrushed and smudged.
Haven't got the cloning thing down right yet and the shadows aren't right.
I didn't know what to do with the hair so just did a little cloning.
Added a background and sepia to the entire photo.
I really liked working on this.
Nan

[Kraellin]

difficult. lots of clone, airbrush and push. some adjustments on color with hue/sat and shading with shadows/midtones/highlights. lots of layers.

[cate_55]

Wow everyone. I am deeply touched by everybody's go at this photo. I have taken on board everybody's comments and will post my attempt soon. I haven't been able top get back to this site earlier due to ill health.

Thanks to all of you.

Cate

[cate_55]

Hi Kraellin

Sorry to be naive but what is the airbrush and push?

cate

[Flora]

Hi everybody,

cate_55,

welcome to RP from me too!!

Wow.. reconstructing facial structure in a portrait picture is, in my opinion, one of the most difficult and delicate task in photo restoring ... one slip of the 'brush' and you have changed that person's identity completely...

Here is my try ....

Working with Photoshop CS2 I mostly used the Healing Brush ... the only parts I copied-pasted-flipped are her ear and nostril..

[Cameraken]

Hi Flora

It’s great to see you back.

That’s beautiful. Great job.

Ken.