Photo Retouch Part 2

(Before)

(After)

I chose this picture of my grandmother as a child because I have wanted to restore it for a while now.  This seems to have a lot of damaged areas to play around with for this project.  I think it turned out great.  

To continue with my first posting, these are the steps I used:

Step 2 – Levels and Curves

I used all the droppers to select areas of white, gray, and black to tone the picture correctly.  Then I made a very slight S curve. 

Step 3 – Tackle the Details

·         Specific Target Areas:

·         Bottom right corner is missing, the top left corner is blown out color wise.

·         Creases throughout

·         Spots

·         Water Damage

·         Fading

Step 4 – Crop the Edges.

My Process:

·         This process was so much fun when using the healing brush blurred the details of the trees in the background, I found it better to go in and edit the pixels individually for better control. 

·         To create the extension of the logs in the bottom right corner I used the clone tool. 

·         For the trees in the top left corner I used the clone tool to fill in a few branches to make it less blown out.

·         To take care of the creases, spots and water damage I used the healing brush.

·         To get rid of the fading I turned the picture to black and white and then used a medium orange-brown overlay.