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Here is the first photograph that I restored. Before I made any changes, the photo had several stains, scratch marks, and wrinkles that made the appearance unpleasing. I duplicated the layer, converted to black & white, and cropped the sides and bottom of the image to take away unnecessary space. The majority of my time I used the clone stamp tool to take out the damage to bring the photo back to life. For my final images, I chose to put a gradient in the background, and one without the gradient. I am pleased with the result of this image, the gradient isn't as appealing as the alternate photo though.
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This is the second photo restoration. This image also had multiple stains and scratches, including one large tear through the baby's mouth. The same process was repeated; duplicate, convert, crop, and clone stamp. It was more difficult to eliminate the rip that is covered in tape that's horizontally stretched across the photo. I played around with selecting different sections to clone so the colour would look realistic, and eventually it cooperated. Again, I replaced the background with a grey colour for one of the final images, and I personally think that one turned out better than the other one.
This is really effective word Kristina. The faces look great, which is the most important thing. You've done an excellent job blending the clone stamps so they repairs don't show. Nice idea to experiment with replacing the background. I agree with you on both counts. The first one looks too cut out around the girl's hair. The second one works better because of the blanket and the inserted background makes a nice crisp contrast. Awesome work.
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