Scratched and Torn

I just completed my newest photo restoration assignment. The pictures were both heavily damaged, so I repaired them. First, I scanned them (several versions, since some come out better than others) and then worked my "magic" on them.

Photo Manipulation 2

This is one of my first photo manipulations I did a few months back. The client had a family photo, but had two stepsons who that weren't in the picture at the time. Sadly, they never were able to get everyone in one big family photo, as the husband and a couple of children had since passed away. She had a photo of each of them that she wanted to add in with everybody else. This was the result that I came up with. It made her really happy to be able to have a photo that included her entire family.

Photo Manipulation

This is a picture of my sister riding her new scooter. My mom wanted a photo of her "riding off into the sunset" for a special project. But my sister is pretty impossible to tie down, so the picture was taken earlier in the day. Using Photoshop, I manipulated the picture to depict shadows, color, and feel of a sunset. I then actually added a sunset into the sky from an image that I found online. So now my mom has the photo she wanted.

New Stuff: Old and Glass

I having posted much lately so I decided to update with some photos I did a little while ago, but never posted. These are from two different clients.

The first one is one of the first ones I ever did. It was in old convex photo glass from the late 1800s. I took a photo of it since the photo could not be removed and scanned, and then repaired it.




This second photo was one of the more difficult ones. The client had a this photo in a frame and covered with glass. Somehow some water or chemical stains leaked through the frame. So it stained the photo. The problem was that the chemical made the photo stick to the glass, so the glass was not able to be removed. The dark spots on the original are where it is stuck to the glass, and then you can just see some other stains where it didn't get stuck. I had to take a photo of the picture with the glass on it, so you can also see a slight reflection of me in the original, too, as I took the picture. So I had to go ahead and edit it all out, including my reflection, and make it look like a print, and not behind glass.