Making image photorealistic..

[cmpentecost]

Another Photoshop tidbit is if you have two similar photos, you can use the clone tool, taking your source from one photo and using it in another photo.  So, for example, if you have two photos with the same people, and one photo has good skin tones/clothing etc., and the other photo has damage, clone off the good image into the bad.  It can be a bit more challenging, but it works!

Chris

[Ausimax]

H4H, good tip about using the patch tool, it is something I don't use as much as I should, will have to remedy that. :-[

Pat a method I have used with the patch tool where you have large areas of damage and only a small area to sample the patch from, like backgrounds, or patterned material like knitted jumpers and you also need to transform the patch to make it fit the pattern or create folds is to pick the basic background colour of the damaged area, and then paint out the damage with that colour, that stops the patch picking up all the other colour variations from the damage.

It doesn't always get you the exact colour result you want but that can sometimes be overcome by adding another layer set to colour blending mode and painting over to blend the colour.


Max

[Patre]

Thank you all for continuing to follow this thread and for offering many terrific suggestions.

[Ratz]

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Hi Pat,
thought you might like to see the Hummel baby finished.
I think I have managed to keep it fairly photo-realistic. When I work I like to use as much of the original texture as I can with cloning and healing, when I have to paint,I sample colours from the original then I turn down the opacity on my WIP layer and dodge & burn any shadows and highlights on a new layer filled with 50% grey set to overlay, following the shadows on the original image.When I have finished I had in a little grain to keep that photo look.
I hope I am explaining myself properly, I am largely self-taught and so I kind of make it up as I go along. I'm not really up on all the workings of Photoshop, so it's trial and error for me!
I have learned a great deal from all the wonderful people here and every resto I do I learn a little more.

[Patre]

Hi ratz,
Terrific restoration! An especially good job on the baby's left foot and hand where I had the most difficulty. Wonderful work on managing the shading and texture of those body parts,
so that the image has a credible and authentic photorealistic look.
I will save your tips in my tutorial folder. Thanks for taking the time and energy
to both restore the image and pass along the helpful tutorial information!

[truckersau]

I thought I might as well toss in a little trick that I use when working on damaged areas of photos, that works well and keeps the textures of the original.
I copy a section from next to the damaged area and place it on a layer under the damage.
Then I erase the damage with the eraser, set to a soft light brush until I'm happy with what I can see.
Then on the layer that I'm using to replace the damage, I adjust the levels/color to suite the top layer. When I'm happy with that I merge my layers.
I'm not that good at giving instructions in writing like this, so I hope you can understand what I'm trying to say.


PS. Ratz. Great job.

[Patre]

Thanks Truckersau.
All tips are much appreciated.

[Tess (Tassie D)]

Great job Ratz. :up:

[Hannie]

Great topic with lots of good tips!  I will bookmark it.

:loveit:

Hannie