Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Photo Retouching and Restauration - Week 2

This week we learned about removing color cast - using healing tool - adding a border. Following are two pictures I worked on - the before and after views








I'm definitely not satisfied with this picture, and hope that in the lessons to come I will learn how to improve. It is a scan from a slide.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Photo Retouching & Restoration - Week 1

I used the clone tool and healing brush on the image to fix background and numerous spots. I tried to tint the image, but never got anything to look good. (I'm not a fan of tinted images, I'm afraid) - so I ended up with a sepia colored photo.

before



after


The following photo is all faded. I used Enhance > Adjust Lighting > Levels. Used the healing brush to get rid of some really bad spots.


before



after