Big challenge - recreating facial features

[crosswire]

My dad went into some old pics and found one which has bad scratches on it. I can recover most of it using akvis in adobe but the facial characteristics of the baby is like damaged
see what i mean below
any advice

this is a low rez jpeg i just posted.the original was scanned at 300dpi n 2mb
much appreciated

[crosswire]

i tried using akvis retouch on the eyes and all it did was smudge it around

[Der_W]

You could try to find some similiar photos and replace the missing parts with it. If there are no photos you can use, try to clone the one part and flip it vertically.

[Cupcake]

Yes, that is what I did, use the taller lady's eyes and make new
eye brows.
Re paint the face to smooth it out.

A small part done.

[Kraellin]

i worked on just the boy's head/face. i used only push and airbrush except for the eyes, which i rebuilt using paint shop pro's 'red eye removal' tool. this is a very good eye rebuilder and i've used it frequently. i recommend it.

oh, and at the end, i masked the entire face/neck/skin area and added some noise to make it a little less smudgy.

i would also highly recommend using a higher resolution image than what you posted here... too pixelated. i believe you said you had higher, so ok. maybe the next time you could crop just that area you're having trouble with and make a new image of that and post that here so we'd have a higher res image to work with?

[HappyCoOl]

Please send me the high res photo on my mail box tioual_said@hotmail.com
And I'll see what I can do for it

[Nan]

I just used the clone and smudge tools.
Nan

[valentina09]

I used the clone tool.
RestauradaVal.jpg

[Kraellin]

that's good, nan. i like that

[Nan]

Thanks Craig. The little boy's eyes are still iffy. Very hard to piece them in.
Nan

[Kraellin]

yup. small images make eye reconstruction difficult.

[crosswire]

thanks all for helping out I will rescan maybe a higher res
my dad has the pic and doesnt live with me so its hard to get him to scan something since he is not very good with anything electronic.

[crosswire]

yes nan
seems it seems nice too

[dvirtualist]

Hi crosswire, can I try doing it? please send me the high resolution scanned photo to dvirtualist at gmail dot com. thanks!

[Juergen D]

Using one eye of the lady on the right, I think some facial recreation can be done.

Juergen

[Kraellin]

good start, jeurgen!

[Juergen D]

Thank you, Craig.

Juergen

[dvirtualist]

here's my try! I used Neat Image plug-ins and some cloning.

[sergio2263]

What a very good job everyones done but then I am not surprised in this forum nothing is impossible the experiences are very high.


helen