This photo of my son was partially destroyed
by salt water during a Nor'Easter Flood a few years
ago.I have many of these destroyed photo's in my
possesion.
I am not a graphic's artist nor a photographer,
though I've always loved the art of photography.
Certain event's took place in my life that made
me investigate photo restoration and manipulation.
One of these were placing a photo of a Mother and
Son in the same photo.The Mother was a good friend of
mine from Grade School.She didn't have a photo with
her son due to the fact that she hadn't seen him in
many years.The son passed away and I thought it might
be nice to do that for her.I am pretty skilled in
computers.
The restoration area came with the many old black
and whites I have of my family and thought it would
be nice to try and restore many of them.Eventually I
began colorizing many of them also.
I find it an excellent hobby and pasttime.My main
goal is just to learn more about the different
techniques so I can make better restorations.
It also allows me to move away from my other hobby
which is Genealogy.I research my family and also try
to find other friends families for them.
When I complete an oldie picture I feel like I have
been given a chance to go back into the past when I
was younger and many of the family & friends were
alive.
Thanks to this Forum Board I have been reading,
searching links,obtaining various programs to assist me and in general going forward in a positive direction.
This past week I was trying to understand layer
masks.It took me a little while because I am not
adept yet with many of the techniques used.I also
haven't got my shortcuts with the keyboard down yet.
This photo was done using layer masks and I stumbled
and bumbled my way through until I got was what I felt
was a half way decent copy of the photo.
I also used the clone tool and the dodge tool.I used PS 6 to do this.
All comments are welcome.I don't get insulted and
welcome constructive criticism.
Hopefully I'll get better results in the future.
Joseph
by salt water during a Nor'Easter Flood a few years
ago.I have many of these destroyed photo's in my
possesion.
I am not a graphic's artist nor a photographer,
though I've always loved the art of photography.
Certain event's took place in my life that made
me investigate photo restoration and manipulation.
One of these were placing a photo of a Mother and
Son in the same photo.The Mother was a good friend of
mine from Grade School.She didn't have a photo with
her son due to the fact that she hadn't seen him in
many years.The son passed away and I thought it might
be nice to do that for her.I am pretty skilled in
computers.
The restoration area came with the many old black
and whites I have of my family and thought it would
be nice to try and restore many of them.Eventually I
began colorizing many of them also.
I find it an excellent hobby and pasttime.My main
goal is just to learn more about the different
techniques so I can make better restorations.
It also allows me to move away from my other hobby
which is Genealogy.I research my family and also try
to find other friends families for them.
When I complete an oldie picture I feel like I have
been given a chance to go back into the past when I
was younger and many of the family & friends were
alive.
Thanks to this Forum Board I have been reading,
searching links,obtaining various programs to assist me and in general going forward in a positive direction.
This past week I was trying to understand layer
masks.It took me a little while because I am not
adept yet with many of the techniques used.I also
haven't got my shortcuts with the keyboard down yet.
This photo was done using layer masks and I stumbled
and bumbled my way through until I got was what I felt
was a half way decent copy of the photo.
I also used the clone tool and the dodge tool.I used PS 6 to do this.
All comments are welcome.I don't get insulted and
welcome constructive criticism.
Hopefully I'll get better results in the future.
Joseph
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