Missing face...

[JackR]

Got this one I'm working on. The girl on the left end missing most of her face, nothing in any channel to work with. Maybe another pic in the set?

[Hannie]

Hi Jack, I looked but there is no other photo of the girl on the left...
All you can do is try and clean up as much as possible and leave her face a little blurry?

something like this, or even more blurry:



Hannie

[Shadow]

Hi Hannie. I like what you did. If I may, how did you clean up the damage to get to the point you showed? Even blurred I bet they would be very happy with her!

[Hannie]

Lyn, I cleaned the original face around the edges and cloned/patched some of the good skin further in so the damaged area becomes smaller.
Then I did a very sneaky (if not forbidden) thing, I copied the face of the girl on the left and pasted that on the girl on the right.  I used free transform and warping to fit the facial features and with a layer mask I took away the edges gradually to have as much of her own face visible as possible.

Borrowing another face is not a great way to restore but is a good point to start from if you have nothing left.  The "new" face can be blurred enough as to not to stand out so much.

Hannie

[Shadow]

Hannie, Thank you very much! I am going to practice that. Probably been said a thousand times ... you rock!!  :wnw:

[Shadow]

Hey Jack, how did you end up with this challenging photo?

[JackR]

This is what I sent in, and accepted...guess I should have done this earlier... :D

[Shadow]

Very nice Jack!

[Lynnya]

Yes very nice Jack.. I looked at that one and hubby said "don't even think of it"... so I chickened...tough one :up: