Calling all eagle eyes

[lurch]

This was going to be an easy one, I thought. Ha! Even the spots had spots, and I reckoned without the ins and outs of those darned benches. Aaaarrrggghhh! Anyway, it's now far enough along for the trusty eagle-eye crew to examine and tell me what got missed. I'm counting on you, guys (and gals - when I grew up everyone was a guy, regardless of gender . . .).

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[Mhayes]

Lurch, I think it looks great!  :up:

[Hannie]

Very good job Lurch!  It looks like there never was any damage.
(If you like tweaking you can add very little contrast (+7).)

:up2:

Hannie

[Tess (Tassie D)]

Beautiful job.

[Ausimax]

 :wnw: :wnw: :wnw: :up:





Max

[glennab]

Awesome clean up, Lurch.  I can't imagine getting the muck out of all those crevasses!

I only spotted one thing that bothered me.  The gentleman's thumb looks truncated compared to the original.  Otherwise, spot on.

Kudos and cheers,

GK

[Candice]

Impressive work!! :hug:

[schen]

Fantastic restoration especially the bench.  I cannot even see there were damages.

The gentleman's left hand appeared like this in the blue channel.  This might help for you to reconstruct a color image.

[lurch]

Thank you, thank you all :loveit:

I've done a couple of tweaks in response to your observations, and I think it's now ready to send home.

About that stubby left hand that Glenna and Shujen singled out - I had actually drawn it 'freehand' before paying attention to the tips about looking at channels for help in reconstruction. I always check channels first thing, but with masking, not info for rebuilding, in mind. Henceforth the old habits will change! Fixed the hand and ran a little experiment at the same time - came up with a slick technique to take advantage of structure in a good channel (at least it worked well on this photo), which I'll share in the Photoshop Techniques subforum.

Again, many thanks to all who commented.

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