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Need some help with an important picture


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My husbands grandmother passed away this year and for Christmas we would like to send out cards with a picture of his grandmother.

I would like to clean this picture up and fill in the white areas to match the original image. There is also some water damage in the lower left corner I need cleaned up as well.

I do not have photoshop and have tried other photo programs and they did not work.

Could someone please help me and fix this for me. Thank you!

The picture was an 8x10 and my mother in law cut out the damaged parts. If there is anyway to return this image to, as close to, original as possible I am extremely greatful!Scan_Pic0001.jpg
 
Paul said:
Merry Christmas

View attachment 40380 clone stamp, a quick mask edge softening via blur, background captured via quick mask then stretched to give new back drop.
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Did you happen to make a larger image? I need to print an 8x10 with the image you provided it is very fuzzy I think because the resolution is smaller than an 8x10

I apologize if I come across as ungrateful but I promise what you have done will make, 22 grand-kids, 74 great grand-kids, 12 great great grand-kids, and 3 great great great grand-kids very happy!!!!
 
Here's a freebie restoration / retouch job in the spirit of Christmas to you and your family!

I attached two versions -- a low rez version for email, facebook, etc., and a high resolution version for printing. To download the high rez version, click on the image inside the box labeled, "attached images". This will lead you to a screen containing the full rez version suitable for downloading.

Not knowing the subject, and having little to go on (because of the fading of the print), I could only guess about her true skin color. I hope I came close, and I hope you like it.

BTW, since you don't work in this field, I doubt you will be viewing these files on a good, calibrated monitor. If the colors or brightness doesn't look good on your computer, don't rush to a conclusion. Take the larger of the two files to a *good* photo store and have them make a print from it. Evaluate the color and brightness from that -- certainly from your laptop or cell phone (with few exceptions).

Tom M

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I hate to talk bust your bubble Tom but her hair is purple and so is her nostril area.. And the patched area on her arm needs to be touched. What are you using for a monitor?
 
Don't be the Christmas grinch, iDad. You know precisely what triage decisions need to be made when one does a job like this, and you know perfectly well that I use a high end NEC monitor, hardware calibrated with Spectraview.

Of course I see all those odds and ends problems (mostly around the margins).

However, this is a freebie, ie, a ZERO pay job, so, to save time for myself, I chose to ignore those things. Think of it as a gentler-kinder version of one of your switch-the-heads job where you intentionally don't even try to blend the new head in so it shows up as a rectangle. LOL.)

I quickly knocked something out as a favor that is wildly better than what anyone else did in this tread so that the lady can at least have something for her family. In a case like this, I concentrate on the major aspects of the image (brightness, contrast, skin color, major area rebuilding) and ignore the fiddly stuff that 99% of her family won't even notice. I am much more worried about whether I might have inadvertently made a person of Latin descent into a ruddy faced Irishwoman than the small areas I decided to ignore. Everyone in her family will notice a mistake like THAT.

If you want to do something constructive for this family, instead of complaining, spend the time and fix things that I missed. You even have my permission to start with the tweaked version I posted if that helps you. Just don't make her skin come out looking like a dead lobster.


Tom
 
My comments were not complaining my comments were pointing out errors that the professor made, my only error is assuming that you may want to fix it.You're sending who ever out to get it printed and it's going cost them money for a poor job.
BTW How would I know what your working with?
 
Hi Paul -

Sorry to have to differ with you, but if you are referring to the fact that she didn't explicitly state that any tweaked versions need to have enough resolution to print a new 8x10, I think she implied this quite clearly at the end of her first post:

"The picture was an 8x10 and my mother in law cut out the damaged parts. If there is anyway to return this image to, as close to, original as possible I am extremely greatful!"

I read this as she's wants to make another 8x10 and hence, needs the resolution.

Just my $0.02,

T
 
I will reiterate my earlier post reply with the same message though

make your requests as clear as possible we are not mind readers.
 
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