How should I reconstruct the fingers?

[Kmayne]

Just coming up to finishing my second one, but after a few attempts on fixing these fingers, I thought it was time to ask for advice.

Here's the original:

Here it is after the first round of colour correction:

Here it is without the fingers:


Any suggestions for improvements or advice for the finger reconstruction are welcome.

P.S. I am planning to add some of the hair detail back as well as take another look at making the other hand more like the original.

[ph0t0sh0pp3r]

Maybe you can use the fingers from the other hand?

[Mike S.]

Hello KMayne,

Nice to see you on the Forum.
You might want to use the quick select tool to select the little finger from the other hand then do a layer via copy then transform and trim in place.  Below is a rough try at it.



Mike

[Chris Lee]

Nice recovery on this although I would have perhaps replaced the child's right hand like so:



To get scale, I placed the new hand over the viewable hand and scaled it to match from the wrist to finger tip.

This is just a suggestion and by no means am I criticising anyone's work. You have done a great job with this.

[Kmayne]

I ended up going back to a failed attempt and fixing it up. Here is the result:

I believe I did copy the finger from the undamaged hand. I've also improved the chin slightly and replaced the backdrop but I am unsure which to use. Here is the alternate:

Is there anything else I could do to improve it or should I submit it as is?

[Hannie]

Both of them look good to me!

:up2:

Hannie

[jesterjeni]

looks good!
sometime we pick at a picture because we know what we feel is flawed. the face is restoed beautifully, no one will notice the hands...you did a great job!!!