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Posts Tagged ‘family’

Teenagers Together

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

This customer from Singapore sent me two separate photos and asked if I could merge them together. I used a third photo, provided by them, as the background.

Girl Photo [singlepic id="57" w="320" h="240" mode="" float="center" ]

I also did some retouching on their faces and eyes, and added shadows so they’d seem to be more realistically leaning into each other. This is the final result, the two kids together in one shot.

Merged Boy and Girl
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Grandfather’s Restoration

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

This client sent me two high resolution scans of some very badly aged and damaged photos of her grandfather. Click them to see what I started with.

Grandfather and Dog, Before Grandfather Sitting, Before

I explained that in at least one of them, the loss of picture quality would mean that the end result would possibly be lacking in detail, but that I could indeed restore these images to excellent likenesses of her grandfather. I wanted to make sure that she had the right expectations – then try to exceed them.

These were the final results. I provided the client with both photos, fixed and cropped to print as many 4×6 copies as she wanted.

Grandfather and Dog, Fixed Grandfather Sitting, Fixed
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Mother and girls

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

This treasured family photo was given to me to restore. It was discolored, cracked and torn in five places, and had some water marks and stains.

Mother and girls original

I pieced it together on the scanner and restored it as close as possible to its original condition. The hardest part was the mom’s left eye and cheek, which was really torn up so I had to redraw most of that. But this is the end result – quite near to perfect and ready to be shared with family members.

Mother and girls restored
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Seasons Greetings

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

This young mom had a perfect photo for her families holiday greeting card – if only the background of the image were better! So she hired me to remove the background and replace it with something seasonal, and do some photo retouching to make it perfect. All I really had to do was remove some facial glare, brighten everyone up and adjust some clothing colors to work perfectly with the background.

This is the original – a great shot!

Holiday greeting before

And this is the final result, as it will look in the photo frame she was going to use:

Holiday greeting after
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