k-wix May 17, 2006 Share k-wix Member May 17, 2006 Greets my friends of gc. I love you guys. So i took my photoshop skills to something a bit more serious, so i shall begin the thread with a bit o' backstory. My Mothers senior picture day she took a great photograph. But due to my family being poor back in the day, they only could afford a single 8x10 print. About 2 weeks later my moms father in a drunken rage destroyed the photograph by burning it, throwing it into a corner, and doing a real number on the only copy to ever exist. Below is a picture of the photograph after it was ruined - you can see some of the burning and other damage/discoloration plaguing the picture. (warning - large image) The photo was pretty ruined - my grandmother tried some home remedies to 'fix' the problem, including nailpolish remover and some other stuff but generally the picture was 'done' by this point. 2006 comes along and my grandmother shows me the photograph.. and i decide to take it as a project and retouch it up, fix it up as best i could, and mail it to my mom as a mothers day gift - the project was just recently completed, so i figured i'd show everyone my work! Here is a copy of the redone photograph after my touch-up work. As you can see, there are a lot of changes, some minor and others major - a lot of the simple scratches and such were removed entirely, the necklace is gone and some areas that were so heavily damaged i had to basically 'paint' over.. this was a very fun project and also quite challenging, but i thought i'd post it to see what y'all think! If anyone has any ruined photographs that need touched up - get into contact with me and i might be able to help you Also, i have uploaded the 'hi-res' versions of the pictures, if anyone wants to look at the really big versions: http://kwix.shackspace.com/mom/MothersProjectfin2.JPG (new version) http://kwix.shackspace.com/mom/MothersProjectfin3.JPG (old version) Yay.. any comments? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Cool May 17, 2006 Share Mr.Cool Member May 17, 2006 if u dont look at the ruined pic, people wud think the 2nd pic was just a normal photograph GREAT WORK!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shazz May 17, 2006 Share Shazz Member May 17, 2006 WOWOWOW!!! Very NICE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. Dunlavy May 17, 2006 Share J. Dunlavy Member May 17, 2006 GJ. My Photoshop skills are lame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whudats May 17, 2006 Share whudats Member May 17, 2006 Nice job man. I bet she was thrilled! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGeek November 26, 2006 Share TheGeek Member November 26, 2006 You did a good job but that light behind her in the final pic looks like it could be a halo. No old time cameras made that large of a light splash. You did a good job on the green shirt. There was not much to go on. But you did loose the texture of the paper in some spots. I would recommend a layer mask of a pattern. I bet you can isolate the texture on her forehead and make it a pattern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Soapdish November 26, 2006 Share Nick Soapdish Member November 26, 2006 the second one makes her look like jesus...hehehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymo December 1, 2006 Share anonymo Member December 1, 2006 Nice job wixy...I'll be sending you my grandfather's WWII album Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog December 5, 2006 Share ShadowDog Member December 5, 2006 the only photoshop skill i have is ... well... liquify!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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