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Gerry Monaghan
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Registered: March 2002
Location: Montour Falls NY
Posts: 51
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Thu April 25, 2002 4:00pm
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What a nice image, and such a touching story. I really like the brown tone you used in the restored image. It is very warm and appropriate for this image. Is it RGB or a duotone? Tell us about the healing brush? Sounds great. Gerry M
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Fosnocht
Junior Member
Registered: November 2001
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 8
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Thu April 25, 2002 4:58pm
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Started with a duotone using black and an orange hue. Had to convert it to RGB to print on my 2000P. Didn't get a good print with duotone mode, so this is now RGB converted from duotone.
The healing brush and patch tool are two new tools in Photoshop 7. You sample an area with good grain structure, like the clone stamp holding alt-click. What is different is that it keeps the underlying grain structure that you paint over, and also the underlying tones so there is no softening like using the clone stamp....How it does it, I don't know but it is amazing. The patch tool does the same thing, but with a selected area. The amazing thing is, unlike selecting and then layer via copy, you don't have to worry about matching tone and grain. It does this automatically for you. AMAZING. Upgrading to 7 from 6 is worth it just for these tools if you do a lot of restoration and retouching. Works well in both RGB and B&W. The only thing that I wish they would have done is that you can not use these tools on a blank layer, so it changes your original image. Well, maybe in Photoshop 8....
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cendres
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Registered: August 2001
Location: IL
Posts: 93
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Thu April 25, 2002 5:36pm
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What a great story and you did a first class retouch and repair. I am sure your patient was very happy with it and appreciated your efforts.
Carl
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Vikki
Senior Member
Registered: August 2001
Location: Arizona
Posts: 883
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DJ Dubovsky
Senior Member
Registered: August 2001
Location: Upper Penninsula of Michigan
Posts: 1,659
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Wow, not only a superb restoration but a wonderful story to go with it.
DJ
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rosieb
Junior Member
Registered: February 2002
Location: kansas
Posts: 1
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Thu January 2, 2003 11:28am
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We use Photoshop 7 in our restoration work where I'm employed. If you make a duplicate copy before you start to work, you don't change your original. (Sometimes, I forget this step, then have to start over from the beginning when I make a mistake!)
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cooloox
Junior Member
Registered: February 2005
Posts: 5
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Thu February 10, 2005 1:16am
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Hi, nice retouch job there. The only thing that would have made it even better still would have been to "no" blur out the floor. The original floor had character. Blurring it has taken away some of that character, and as a photographer myself, it looks a little unnatural to be out of focus.
Great job though, Brian
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