Old Restored Photo

[gail]

Old Photo I have been working on this is the before and after some touch up in photoshop. This is really my first go at this kind of thing.
But wanted to know how you all think I did.
And too which do you prefer?

I applied a filter weave texture to the bottom one #3
so you like better with the weave filter or with out?
May not be able to tell had to resize for web.
But here goes.....

And I no this could have been a lot better with someone else doing it that knows more about restoring old torn photos & photoshop. But I gave it by best shot for a beginner. lol

And I'm still learning PS. what does what LOL :P
I mostly used the healing tool and clone to take away the tears. :)

Original
http://photos.imageevent.com/gailsgallery/miscthisandthat/websize/nenas%20picture.JPG

After touch up in PS
http://photos.imageevent.com/gailsgallery/miscthisandthat/websize/nenas%20picture%20copy2.jpg


With filter weave
http://photos.imageevent.com/gailsgallery/miscthisandthat/websize/TRIED77.jpg

filter weave full size
this one you can kind of get ideal of what I'm talking about filtered weave.
It kind of gives it that old timey canvas look....
so what ya think with or without the filter?
http://photos.imageevent.com/gailsgallery/miscthisandthat/TRIED77.jpg

[psk4363]

IMHO the filter weave one is the best. The effect of the weave somewhat enhances the old image.

Have you had a look at www.retouchpro.com ? It's a site dedicated to retouching/restoring old images and theye are a very friendly and helpfulbuch of people - I have learned a lot from them (particularly Flora - but don't tell her I said that!). I think you would learn much from them.

Cheers,
Barry

[PacAce]

Hi, Gail,

Your retouching work is just stupendous, especially considering that you've just started learning it. Excellent job! They all look good but the weave does give it that classic look.

And thank you! I just learned something from you. You see, a couple of months ago, I restored my mother-in-law's old picture. It was a sepia photo just like yours but the original also had a weave pattern that I couldn't get rid of when I scanned it (I wanted to get rid of it because I knew the retouching would mess it all up). And, of course, when I used the healing tool, the weave pattern got wiped out in those areas where I used the tool. Now that I know I have access to a weave filter, thanks to you, I'm going to go back and apply it to my mother-in-laws retouched picture. :D

[Mitchkitter]

hey gail,
havent seen you in a while

you did an awesome job restoring the immage, look foward to seeing more work from ya!

[maderito]

Gail,

Wonderful. The weave filter creates beautiful texture in the photo consistent with its age. That's always been a problem for me too - how to add back texture after removing all the obvious defects. One typically thinks of adding in some noise - but what you've done looks much better.

The image also reminds me that the art of the family portraitue seems to be disappearing in favor of a blizzard of family snapshots. I love these old photo portraits.

Looking forward to your future retouch postings . . .

[gail]

Thanks to all for the nice replies. I was thinking the weave filter also. Just wanted others opinions on what looked the best. I applied the weave affect in a program I have. I didn't do it in photoshop didn't know how.
Guess theres a way to do it there just haven't gotten that far in PSyet.

So I did it the easy way..LOL

I did it in Fxfoto really great program. Heres the link. http://www.fxfoto.com/welcome.htm

You can do a lot add frames and so on. But I did do the restoring in PS. Again thanks for all the comments. Now after doing this one makes me want to drag all my old photos out. But it would take weeks ha.

I'm sure glad of digital makes it so much easier to just store them on disk. And not have all them photo albums stored away. So now when I want to look at photo I can just pop in the disk and sit back and relax. 8)

Most of my recent photo's I have made photo shows out of them. So we just pop in the DVD player and show to the whole family...So nice. :P I don't guess I have taken any develop photos in years all have been from digital camera.

Barry, thanks for the link I will have to go check it out seems to be very interesting..
8)

[gail]

Hi, Gail,

Your retouching work is just stupendous, especially considering that you've just started learning it. Excellent job! They all look good but the weave does give it that classic look.

And thank you! I just learned something from you. You see, a couple of months ago, I restored my mother-in-law's old picture. It was a sepia photo just like yours but the original also had a weave pattern that I couldn't get rid of when I scanned it (I wanted to get rid of it because I knew the retouching would mess it all up). And, of course, when I used the healing tool, the weave pattern got wiped out in those areas where I used the tool. Now that I know I have access to a weave filter, thanks to you, I'm going to go back and apply it to my mother-in-laws retouched picture. :D

Hi Leo,
I would love to see the one you restored of your mother-in-law.
glad I could be of help to you ha. most of the time I'm asking for help or learning from some one else on the forum. LOL But I didn't get the weave filter in PS. I got it from a program I have called FxFoto.

But I'm sure that PS has the weave filter but I didn't no how to go about using it there. But again would love to see you photo. Seems that I'm into old photos at the monment ha.