please help me 3rd time is the charm

[WINTERGODDESS]

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2.../5YEARSOLD.jpg to storage and found this photo of me when I was five. The dresser was on it when it was moved it got ripped :~(. Can someone help me with this ..... plleeaaassee

[Gary Richardson]

Might help if you posted your picture so we can see the extent of the damage and therefore give you better advice on how to deal with it.

Flora has written some instructions on posting Images to the forums Here

[WINTERGODDESS]

thank you ... I couldnt attach but have the link ....

[WINTERGODDESS]

I need help with my photo..... :~(

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http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2.../5YEARSOLD.jpg Went to storage and found this photo of me when I was five. The dresser was on it when it was moved it got ripped :~(. Can someone help me with this ..... plleeaaassee

[WINTERGODDESS]

This photo was damaged in storage, and I tried to do a link but it is not working right.. I hope this will work .. here is the photo of me when I was 5 years old ..

[Dave.Cox]

This one doesn't look to difficult. You should be able to clean it up with the clone tool, and the heal tool. The hardest part will be the face, but with the full size image you should be able to do a better job than I did here. The rest are pretty simple surfaces.

[punkie]

I can't view the picture
nevermind

[DCobb]

Dave has pretty much explained what to do. I noticed a focus problem and ran the picture through a thrid party plugin called Focus Magic and then completed my retouching efforts. Focus Magic did seem to improve the picture.

dc

[Kraellin]

cute pic, but i dont know... we're not supposed to allow nudes. ok, just kidding. the guys have the right of this one. clone, some focusing. i'd try a usm. and then maybe a little color correction. the reds are a bit strong, probably due to low light when taken.

[Gary Richardson]

Made a very quick attempt to repair the tears.

I haven't tried to deal with any of the other issues with this picture.

All I've done is clone out the cracks. Obviously with more time all the other "defects" in the picture could be addressed.

[byRo]

Cloned and attacked some of the "other issues".

I was testing the new "Clone Source" window in PS3.
Not too impressed - seemed to get in the way more than helping.

Rô

[Dave.Cox]

Hmmm, going to have to try that focus magic. Where'd you find it?

[DCobb]

Here is the URL for Focus Magic.

http://www.focusmagic.com/

dc

[WINTERGODDESS]

Thank you all for you support and informations...

[Gary Richardson]

I posted to this thread yesterday, but for some reason my picture is not present. Strange because it was when I logged out last night.

Sorry if you thought I'd ignored you Wintergoddess.

Here's the picture I posted (just a quick clone job)

My apologies, for some reason I can't upload the picture at the moment.

EDIT: It appears you double posted Wintergoddess and I replied in the other post.

Please don't double post, as it causes just this kind of problem.

I've moved the posts from the other thread into this one.

[Gary Richardson]

Thanks Ken, I've moved those posts into this thread.

[WINTERGODDESS]

Sorry about the double posting ....

[Gary Richardson]

No worries, just don't do it again or I'm afraid we'll have to introduce you to the RetouchPro ducking stool.

[lcramer53]

I'm still struggling at restoration and trying to emulate all of the talented people here at RP; I think I've improved since I first found RP but there's a long road ahead of me . Wanted to give this one a try, such a happy face.

Basically, I started out by duplicating the main layer (as always), copied and pasted a set of 3 tiles, transformed by perspective, adjusted the saturation on them and then duplicated that layer 2 more times for the other damaged tiles on the right and adjusted for perspective and color. For the tears/heavy scratches, mainly, I used the clone tool, a little bit of patching, and maybe one or two "copy & paste" sections of the hair.

Found some bubbles on a disc of stock photos that I had and copied, pasted, sized, did a mask for revealing and lowered the opacity to about 90%.

Merged all the layers and then did a minor hue and saturation adjustment, don't remember what settings, I just stopped adjusting when I was somewhat happy with the results; wasn't quite sure what I wanted.

Downsized the file for submitting here.

[ajcutler]

Wintergoddess:

What a great photo.

To repair a photo like this, as Dave said you need to use the clone tool and heal tool. I have found that by working on your photo at 200-300% and cloning from areas on both sides of the damage the cloning is harder to detect. After working at 200-300% go back to 100% and make any changes that may show up at that size.

I reduced the yellow in the photo a bit with a color balance (moving yellow toward blue), and did selective sharpening on the photo (ex. eyes, mouth, hair).

Alan

[Gary Richardson]

Hi AJ, nice to see you round the forums again, it's been a while. Nice work as always.

Susie, nice idea adding the extra bubbles, lovely picture.

[ajcutler]

Thanks Gary, nice to be back, had some issues to deal with for while that were eating most of my time.

Alan

[lcramer53]

Thank you Gary.

[Gary Richardson]

Originally Posted by ajcutler

Thanks Gary, nice to be back, had some issues to deal with for while that were eating most of my time.

Alan

I know what that can be like, hope things are well with you now.

Originally Posted by Susie

Thank you Gary.

You're welcome, it's a nicely finished piece.