Photo restoration

[mneame]

My Boss knows that i like photography and brought in a photo that she wanted restored. This was taken of her in 1968 and had seen better days. So i had a crack at it for her and we were both happy with the outcome.

Original


As you can see there was a lot of the image that needed to be built up.

Restored

[cy88]

I was going to say that you'd missed some smudges, until I realised they were wood grain!

[mneame]

it caught me out a few times when i was doing it. Just glad it wasn't a colour image.

[2jamesl]

Heres my attempt















also see more of my photos at www.freewebs.com/leightonswebby

[lake]

mneame said:

My Boss knows that i like photography and brought in a photo that she wanted restored. This was taken of her in 1968 and had seen better days. So i had a crack at it for her and we were both happy with the outcome.



Original





As you can see there was a lot of the image that needed to be built up.



Restored

mneame, here is my version of your photo







Lake

[Matt H]

Nice change by adding the colour - what programme did you use for that?

[lake]

Matt H said:

Nice change by adding the colour - what programme did you use for that?

Matt,



I used photoshop, just select areas you want to apply colour to then Adjust->Variations.



Takes a while, this was done quickly as a demo.



I originally saw this done on a photo of a concert at a sports ground, the person that re-coloured it had to apply colour to all the faces/clothes in the crowd by highlights them all 1 at a time. It must have taken him hours!!

Lake

Edited by lake on Wednesday 23 May 14:16

[mneame]

that's some great restoration there 2jamesl

lake - loving the coloured version. the boss liked it as well. i'll have to give that technique a go on some b&w stuff i have at home.

[furtive]

My effort of a picture taken of my grandmother as a child

Before:


After

[mneame]

cracking work furtive!

[CY88]

Repost from a couple of years ago:-

My mum found a couple of pictures of her parents taken on their honeymoon, probably from the late nineteen twenties. Unfortunately, they had obviously had to taken seperate photos of themselves as no-one was around to take one of them together.




Mum asked if I could do anything with them, and we were all pleased with the result :-