[Psycho_uk]

Originally Posted by zekeode

I might have missed few spots, but your photo is a perfect practice picture. scratches, "grape" skin, dust, fingerprint...

Glad to oblige - although I didn't know this photo would be so useful

[Kraellin]

lots and lots of clone. some airbrush. quite a bit of lighting balancing with clarify, brightness/contrast, shadows/midtones/hightlights and whatever else i could find

[CherokeeCandy]

This is my first post and I have no idea how to do an attachment here to show the thumbnails so will just give links to the images.

Black and White


Color

[Caitlin]

Originally Posted by zekeode

http://www.saunalahti.fi/~osoll/old-photo-zekeode.jpg

I might have missed few spots, but your photo is a perfect practice picture. scratches, "grape" skin, dust, fingerprint...

Zekeode, I've just been browsing through this thread and wanted to say I think your version is really excellent. Beautiful clarity and detail, and a particularly good job on the tear through man! (My only teensy criticism is that both women have slightly odd repaired eyebrows)

[zekeode]

Originally Posted by Caitlin

Zekeode, I've just been browsing through this thread and wanted to say I think your version is really excellent. Beautiful clarity and detail, and a particularly good job on the tear through man! (My only teensy criticism is that both women have slightly odd repaired eyebrows)

Thank you for your criticism, and you are right about those flaws.

I try to keep focus on the faces, as it's usually the first thing that catches my eyes. I also like to keep noise removal minimum (same goes with my audio restorations )

I actually had a "later" version of that picture, and now it should also have those glitches fixed you mentioned (at least i hope i fixed them)

http://www.saunalahti.fi/~osoll/old-photo4.jpg

[dianajenna]

Zekeode,

Your photo is so clear. I'm impressed. How did you do that?

Diana

[zekeode]

Sharpening, levels, cloning (every clone count), and as for faces rather than using noise removal i used blur brush (make sure it doesn't touch outlines, eyes etc. too keep sharp overall). You could also try smudge tool, but in this case grape skin wasn't so bad. No plugins was used.

[dianajenna]

Zekeode,

All I can say is you did a great job. I tried all those tools, but apparently not at the same strengths, etc. because I didn't get quite the same result.

Diana