Need help with grandparents picture

[rosierosierosie]

I would like to know if anyone can help me with this picture of my grandparents, its a scan picture of them but it seem my grandfather ride sight is partial missing i did the best I could any suggestions would help. thank you

[TommyO]

Since it is a front view and he seems very symetrical, many people would simply select his left side, copy to a new layer, flip it and move it into place as his right side. You can them make a few subtle changes to make it look less obvious. Select smaller areas if you wish, or pick a large area and simply erase areas on the upper layer that make it seem un-natural.

[hawkeye60]

I copied some of the right side of his suit to a new layer, then flipped it horizontally to repair the left side. Same with the background and the chair repairs. The rest is cloning, painting and a little sharpening.

The sepia version was done with a hue/saturation layer set to colorize.

[DCobb]

Interesting challenge. This is my try.

dc

[unimatrix001]

gave this a shot about as good as i could do

[rpsparks]

Here's my quick go at it...

[rosierosierosie]

the picture looks beautiful thank you so much, how did you make the table next to my grandfather larger it makes the picture look so much bigger. Now I know what he must of look like when he was younger. thanks again I am going to try to change the background I will post it. thanks so much.

[rosierosierosie]

I extracted the picture into a different background and changed to the color to black and white. any suggestions would be appreciated. I pretty new at this. thank you so much.

[rpsparks]

Originally Posted by rosierosierosie

the picture looks beautiful thank you so much, how did you make the table next to my grandfather larger it makes the picture look so much bigger. Now I know what he must of look like when he was younger. thanks again I am going to try to change the background I will post it. thanks so much.

If you are in fact talking to me, I just enlarged the canvas just a tad bit and then used replace mode of the healing brush tool, for the bottom I just followed the angle of the small portion of good edge of the table and filled everything in on the way up.

[rosierosierosie]

Yes you the one that enlarge the picture it looks great and real, how to you like the back ground I did. thank so much for your help.

[rpsparks]

It looks fine but I'm no expert... I'm more of a fan of original backgrounds. I guess the only criticism that I have would be scale. If you look at the pot behind the man compared to the man/woman, The pot/flowers look large.

[rosierosierosie]

I was trying to have my grandfather lean on that table maybe I try to make my grandparents a little larger. thanks again