Schoolgirl restoration (MooNy)

[MooNy214]

106 layers, almost 8 hours. know that the shoulder is not even close to be perfect, but i did all i could.

I would love some comments on it. It was my firs project this hard to recreate.
http://i42.tinypic.com/eb6cev.jpg

[crazyfly1]

Looks great to me. You did a very nice job with keeping the origional background. On the shoulder I think I would try burning down just the dots. I think that would help a lot.

[philbach]

I noticed that the photo has a yellow tint, so using curves and the white eyedropper on her collar I adjusted the color

[MooNy214]

First of, all, thank you for the appreciation.
I know about the yellow tint, i tried to remove it, but he "client" wanted it more natural. Removing the yellow tint enhances some other colours and makes them burnt and saturated. I will post one of these days some of my retouches too

[Kraellin]

mooNy214, welcome to RP.

nice job on the clean up. only thing that bugs me is the brightness level. it's a bit high. levels, curves, brightness/contrast, or even a histogram adjustment shld fix that.

[MooNy214]

I know kraellin, but that's the way the one who gave me the photo wanted it to look like so that's the way i delivered it to him (sorry if my english is weird sometimes )

[Kraellin]

moony214, that's fine. if that's what the client wants, then that's fine

[klassylady25]

I'd run a level adjustment, with just a bit of color touch up.

[MooNy214]

klassylady25, i really really really appreciate what you did, but some advice here: the photo is over-contrasting. What you did to the hair mattifies it, remoes the natural shine and added the color on her ear.
The background shadows are too black and between her hands, something turned out from pinkish peach to blue.What i like is the way you repaired the uniform's dots, but too much contrast and some blur on the table...
I've dealt with tones of colour enhancements and retouches last summer when i worked, and trust, i did learn something from the 48000 images i retouched. Don't over contrast, don't oversaturate.

[MooNy214]

Another photo i restored. The person that gave the image tom me wanted too keep the brown tone of the photo's grays, but remove the "wrinkles" and the "stick" coming out behind the girl's head:
http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq81zwi

Some comments would be highly appreciated

Could a moderator please change the topic's name to: "Some restorations (MooNy)" pretty please?

[Veralisa]

I thought you did a terrific job...both images. The little girl, the shoulder doesn't bother me a bit. Mom with Child, something's almost too clear in the new redo. Maybe a slight simplifier? IMO.
Nice projects.

[klassylady25]

Originally Posted by MooNy214

klassylady25, i really really really appreciate what you did, but some advice here: the photo is over-contrasting. What you did to the hair mattifies it, remoes the natural shine and added the color on her ear.
The background shadows are too black and between her hands, something turned out from pinkish peach to blue.What i like is the way you repaired the uniform's dots, but too much contrast and some blur on the table...
I've dealt with tones of colour enhancements and retouches last summer when i worked, and trust, i did learn something from the 48000 images i retouched. Don't over contrast, don't oversaturate.

Thanks for the advise, but it's a matter of perspective and this was on the fly, which means, that I didn't give it as many hours as you did. I think we both did well.

[learninlady]

Heres my try. I worked on the shoulder a bit.

[ricric]

Originally Posted by MooNy214

106 layers, almost 8 hours. know that the shoulder is not even close to be perfect, but i did all i could.

I would love some comments on it. It was my firs project this hard to recreate.
http://i42.tinypic.com/eb6cev.jpg

Great job!

[learninlady]

I worked on the shirt some more. and smoothed it out a bit

[sananjana]

very nice MooNy214, good

ok thanks

[sergio2263]

Originally Posted by MooNy214

I know kraellin, but that's the way the one who gave me the photo wanted it to look like so that's the way i delivered it to him (sorry if my english is weird sometimes )

I know what you mean I've had that myself a photo can look like it need much more work done but you get the client think it's the best finished and want no further work, it can be frustrated sometimes, but the customers are always right.


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[W.Smith]

Excellent job, MooNy!

Philbach, I appreciate that you wanted to mitigate the yellow, but as a result there's now too much magenta in your version, imo.

Klassy, your attachment won't open for me (the others do).

I agree with Veralisa that the shoulder isn't a problem at all (to me), and that the whole image may be a bit too clear/sharp. I would blur it a tad.

[StriderMelnik]

I think that the restoration of the bangs is too visible. They are all out of alignment and bizarrely blurred.

[Jack The Ripper]

+1 on the bangs. Not sure on the bow on the left side of her head (your left not hers), her head does have a slight tilt to it, with the bow being brough out fully it looks a bit odd to me.

All in all, fantastic job, with exception of the bangs the final looks like an untouched and well preserved photograph. you defaintly kept the older look to it which a lot of people appreciate.

two thumbs up!

[MooNy214]

Thank you, Jack the ripper, for your kind words. The bow was replaced because the old one was too hard to redo so i did a little copy-paste.