Tutorial on photo restoration

1. Observe the damaged or flawed parts of the photo, and look for possible enhancements in lighting and/or color.

2. Crop out any soiled, crinkled, or excess edges.

3. Use the clone tool to replace the damaged areas with a matching color or gray tone. If using the healing brush tool be sure to select the "replace" feature.

4. Adjust the brightness and contrast to desired levels.

5. Use the burn tool to darken or soften areas with blemishes that you wish to be less vivid. Also use the Burn tool to bring out any dark patterns or letters that may have faded.

6. Use the Dodge tool to enhance the subjects or people in the photograph. When working on faces, only use the dodge tool on the light areas of the face, not on the cast shadows, or you will lose a feeling of dimension. The burn tool can be used to darken any faded cast shadows on the face, which will increase contrast.

7. Review the photograph for smudges, curves, lines, or patterns of pixel grain that seem unnatural. Touch it up with the clone or blur tool if necessary.

Week 13

For this week, I took an old bent home photo (my aunts and uncles when they were kids), with some scratches, grit and pitted areas. I used the clone tool to remove most of these blemishes. In the photo, it looks like it was snowing, so I left some of the white spots in the picture, while making sure to remove most of the black spots that were most likely dirt or scratches. I darkened the clothing using the burn tool while brightening up their faces with the dodge tool. I increased the contrast and slightly brightened the photo. I also cropped the original.

Week 11

High Dynamic for Critique

High Dynamic

Low Dynamic

Complementary

Monochrome

Analogous

Week 10

Collage made from Internet photos
For this image, I layered different objects. As you can see, the people at the base are pointing up at the car which is being pulled toward the ufos. I used the lasso tool to fill in a green glow around a car. For the orange car, I decreased the image size greatly, rotated it, and distorted it. I added the two small cars on the highway, and added shadowing and softened edges to the people below. It was difficult to cut out the detail in the hands of the people. I used the erase tool to clean up the edges.

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Collage made from 5 photos used for class assignments
For this photograph, I made the hue of the background into a blue underwater hue. I altered the opacity on all of the objects to make for a ghostly, sunken ship feel, with the fish moving toward the chandelier and the clown fish looking at the ball.

Background Image