Photo Restoration - - What skill level needed? - Page 2

PixiePirate · #16 10-09-2004, 09:26 PM

Nobody has yet mentioned stamp/coin collecting!

Seriously, I also say its akin to cooking. Cooking is something that anyone can be taught the basics of just like R&R. But it takes more than just technical knowlege to make a great meal or a great R&R-I feel it also takes someone with patience, instinct, and intuition and most importantly the guts to experiment!

R&R is much like making chili-sometimes you make a pot of WOW! and sometimes you just wish you had never opened that first can of beans.......

Izku · #17 10-17-2004, 02:37 AM

I think that all those ithems are very close to matching the skill needed for R&R
1. cooking - to make nice retouching good taste is needed
2. hairstyling - sometimes you have cut
3. sewing - sometimes you have to paste
4. cosmetology - when you retouch acne in face in the portrait
5. gardening- for nice colors composition
6. police training - to catch right software, interrogate, to keep it after or let it go if not important
7. computer programing - you have to know heart of your computer to make it beats right for you
8. sleeping - after 10 hours of R&R you are sleeping even if eyes are open
9. brain surgery - this is precision you need for work you do and for way you eat japanese food upon a keyboard

10. learning Japanese it's exactly what you do after , you're looking at empty sushi box and while you are waiting for a sign from heaven you read jookimiiiizuuurrriiiii kimmmoooooniii

11. rocket science come after you read nice work contract
12. and at the end comes coin colecting

MaryLynn · #18 10-20-2004, 10:40 PM

I chose sewing because of the attention to detail necessary in construction of a finished product. Thanks for helping me make that correlation. I've been struggling with layers to the point of abandoning them all together. If I approach them with the same mindset as I do sewing or other needlework, I may be able to make more sense of them.

MrChevy · #19 10-21-2004, 08:23 PM

For me, I would say cooking does it... just about exactly. Take just one item (a steak or a photo). Now, how many ways can we fix a steak to eat? 1? 2? 20? a thousand? How many ways can we fix a photo? 1? 2? a thousand? Ahhh yes.
What does the steak need? Some of this spice, some of that, this temperature, that sauce etc.
What does the photo need that needs restored, retouched? A little cloning, a little healing, a little cropping maybe, some lighting, some smoothing.

Turns out about the same, whip up a nice steak (or whatever you are cooking) and WOW, does that look/taste great!

Do a nice job on a photo and WOW, is everyone happy now!

Ken

twinkissed · #20 01-17-2006, 11:53 AM

Wow these posts are so old but someone must have just voted in it. What the heck I will too. I would say cooking definately... So many different foods (photo damage), so many ways to cook them (different methods), and while you may think the dish is great (final product), the person eating it may have a completely different taste (client preference in retouching style, smoothness, darkness, etc.)

Jim Conway · #21 01-24-2006, 11:01 AM

Tom said it all!

cardmnal · #22 10-13-2006, 06:22 PM

I went with sleeping since it was the only option on the list I am intimately familiar with and both can be interupted by the kids, the dog, and the phone.

blue dog · #23 10-20-2006, 07:06 AM

Funny you should ask, I began the professional phase of my life as a computer programmer and ended up being a rocket scientist! That's all analysis and logic with lots of wrong answers and only a few correct ones. R&R is nothing like that! For me, anyway, computer skills are easy. Developing something that is visually pleasing and tastefully done requires an artistic eye and a light touch. These are the things that attract me to R&R as an alternative career, the things that I struggle with the most, and the things that ultimately bring the most satisfaction.

I'd go with wood working like Vikki suggested.