Photos: before-and-after restoration samples, or wasn't my grandma a cutie?

[oddharmonic]

Part of the reason why I enjoy scanning old photos is having the opportunity to play around with them -- touch up dust spots, minimize creases and stains, draw goatees on people I don't like ...well, you get the idea. Today my sister sent me a few dozen photos our cousin had scanned and two were earmarked as ones that had been chosen to go in the

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[gamahucheur]

Hypothetical:

Someone whom you don't like has a goatee, a unibrow, and two black eyes (from an unsucessful attempt at purse snatching).

Now what?

[oddharmonic]

Groucho glasses, horns, cloned extras of things that come in pairs...

I am easily amused.

[gamahucheur]

Very nice!

How are the voids generally filled? with a graduated blend?

[oddharmonic]

I use a non-aligned clone brush tool and then gently blend the edges either with the clone brush at a lower opacity or with the healing brush. I fill in smaller gaps pretty much the same way, only with the brush set to a smaller pixel size.

I would like to learn non-digital techniques for repairing photographs someday.

[pallid_regina]

OMG, gorgeous pictures!

[techno1992]

These are astonishing--way to go!

[ekdogg]

Jesus - you have some serious skills.