The Mother-In-Law

[simonwalsham69]

This is a photo of my Mother-In-Law to be when she was in hospital as a child. My fiancée asked me to repair it for printing as a birthday present.

It turned out much better than I was expecting....

I did have another scan of the bottom corner which was bent back on the original photo but I seem to have deleted that scan.

 

[MFSX]

It's perfectly executed well done mate

 

[Steve]

Nice job.
I like doing restoration although it's very time consuming.

 

[iDad]

nice job

 

[simonwalsham69]

Nice job.
I like doing restoration although it's very time consuming.

I agree extremely time consuming lost track of how long this took me, I think the result makes it worth it though.

 

[dv8_fx]

That's a good job on the restore. Ya.... really time consuming. But worth the effort most especially when done well.....

 

[Paul]

Nice one mate.

 

[Mogsy]

Excellent job - It is time consuming but well worth it as potentially can be kept forever - Bet your Fiancee was pleased with it

 

[simonwalsham69]

Excellent job - It is time consuming but well worth it as potentially can be kept forever - Bet your Fiancee was pleased with it

very pleased, the final result when printed and framed made a perfect present

 

[moneyshot11]

wow this is really something different i had no idea this was even possable, is there any tutorials for something which would get me close to do this? would be a great to know how to do this.

 

[Steve]

wow this is really something different i had no idea this was even possible, is there any tutorials for something which would get me close to do this? would be a great to know how to do this.

It's a lot of clone stamp and healing brush.
Sometimes you can make patterns and use the pattern tool, sometimes you use other parts of the image to fill in missing pieces, and much much more.

 

[moneyshot11]

great thanks Steve, will be certainly looking at learning how to use them tools!

 

[Steve]

One more thing, if the image was scanned in RGB mode and it's a black and white photo, convert it to B&W before you start.
Do as much as you can on separate layers.

 

[wein316]

very good restoration