I haven't seen any photo restoration on here yet, and since it is one of my favorite pastimes, I decided to post a before and after photo of my work.
My husband's father was a rake, and a handsome gambler. He died 2 years before I met my husband, so I never got to meet him. Naturally when I saw this photo, I had to restore it. This is eye candy from the olden days! I am pretty sure this was taken in the early 40's.
I also restored this photo of my mother-in-law, taken on her wedding day. You can see how damaged this was. It took many months before I finally got it right. I did the work using CorelDraw/PhotoPaint, and was able to maintain the original sienna colors. I am glad this one wasn't torn up! I don't know when this taken. I suppose I should ask the hubby!
By Leigh
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The brides dress looks like 1920's style.
Oh pretty please contact me and help me learn how to do this! You are great at it!
That is fabulous. I am trying to do the same on an old photo, but if only I could work like you.
Oh this is great, wish you could give instructions on how to do this.
This is so cool. I'm almost speechless, which is rare for me. LOL! I'll just say "wow!"
Margaret from Denton, Texas
Wow, you do good work! Thanks for sharing.
I would also love it if you would post instructions on how to do this. I work in a photo lab & there are copyright laws that prohibit us from restoring or copying professional photos without a release.
Hello everyone! Thanks for the compliments. I can only respond briefly because I am extremely busy right now installing a new bathroom. My mother-in-law's wedding photo was very difficult for me. It took months of my spare time, and involved lots of painstaking work on the computer using Corel Paint. I didn't take any courses. I had to teach myself, do research, get advice online, and do a lot of experimentation.
In Corel Paint the tools are much the same as you would use by hand, but with lots of added features, like 'cloning', lighting and lenses, just to name a few. One can also change a photo to resemble a painting or stained glass, which is automatic and much easier. The father photo was easier because it was less damaged. I did these a few years ago, so exact instructions are impossible.
You just have to have a good art application for the PC, play around with all the tools and features, and take your time. It requires a lot of patience, and the best thing about it, if you mess up you can go back up to 99 steps and correct it. This feature called the 'undo tool' for example.
Corel Paint is expensive, but there are other PC graphic applications that do this stuff too. I would never be able to do this by hand, even though I have artistic ways. Glad you all like the photos.
You have a lot of determination and patience don't let it go to waste. Write a book on how you did it and the long painful months without any help learning how to manipulate the software, etc.
Photoshop works wonders as well. It's expensive, too, but these are wonderful tools to have and use. Good job!
Wow! You did such a wonderful job and you are so talented. Do you have instructions also as to how you did this? Where did you get the software for this program. I would be interested in it also as I do genealogy research and I come across old photos of family generations past and would like to restore them also.
I really like the restoration output. I have seen a lot of people looking to restore their damaged photos, but they don't know where to start. There are basically two options. Either you can outsource to a company providing this type of specialized photo editing work or you can try on your own.
A couple of years ago I came across an old photo when I was in boot camp, it had cracks up and down and sideways as if it was folded one or more times, so I went to https://www.fiverr.com and searched "restore photos" and had it fixed for only $5.00. I used this site many times when I was in the real estate for logos, my website, etc. It has quite a few categories and most of the gigs start at $5.00.
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