The Bubble Machine

[Ausimax]

Not satisfied with spots and plaid, we now seem to be using the dreaded Bubble Machine. :'(

This one has been a real pain, hardly a brick without a blister, there was something else in the left side, I think it is a chair, however I couldn't find enough detail to reconstruct it so I lost it.

Give me your thoughts on it please.







Max

[klassylady25]

I think you're right about the chair.  French Provencial comes to mind. you know the like that everone uses in a background.   Kinda like that but in white.  I don't envy you the bricks!!  Ouch!

[schen]

I would have disagree with you on the chair, Candy.  I think it looks like this:



Max, it looks good without the chair.  I would suggest burn the guy on the right a little and darken the mortar lines between the legs of the guy in the middle.  Other than that, it was a great job.  :up:

[klassylady25]

I see arms on the chair.  Don't you?

[schen]

I didn't.  But now you mention it... :funny:

[Charlene5]

Chris must have mugged the ghost of Lawrence Welk for that bubble machine!!  ;D

[G3User]

Max,

Another approach to the bricks is to enlarge the canvas, clean up a small area of bricks, distort it to make it square and then copy/paste until you have enough to fill the enlarged canvas. Select it all and distort it to create perspective. It make it much easier to get sensible horizontal lines though it need more work if you need to replicate the reduced width of the bricks off to the left.
This is a quick and dirty and it needed to have some color correction of the original group of bricks.

I have used this a number of times and find it much easier than trying to repair lots of small pieces



Athol

[Ausimax]

Hi Folk,

Thanks for your comments.
As for the type of chair I am sorry to say you are all wrong, from the general condition of this image I am reasonably certain it was a Deck Chair off the Titanic. :wow:

Athol thanks for you input, actually the bricks were probably the easiest part to do, My quick and dirty method is to create a layer and paint all the mortar lines on it, then clean up an area of the bricks and clone the colour/texture over the whole area, use the healing tool to blend all the areas of colour change into each other, then run the blur filter over the mortar layer, and "hey presto" a  quick and nasty brick wall.


Max

[Tess (Tassie D)]

Great job Max. :up: I agree on darkening the guys a bit, they looks a little ghosty.

[cmpentecost]

Great job on the restoration Max!  As for the bubble machine, I found Lawrence Welk's bubble machine on eBay and got it for a bargain!   ;D

Chris

[Mhayes]

Great job, Max!

What you all don't know is that Chris also got Lawrence Welk's accordion on eBay. She is currently learning how to polka!  :funny:

Margie

[Charlene5]

What you all don't know is that Chris also got Lawrence Welk's accordion on eBay. She is currently learning how to polka!  :funny:

Margie

Can she do the "anna one anna two" part as well?   I'd pay good money to see that!  ;D

[Ausimax]

Knowing Christine, if she has Lawrence Welk's accordion and is learning to polka, the next thing we may expect is a batch of photos covered in Polka Dots.  >:(

She is very ingenious and will soon develop the accordion to produce dots as she plays - beware! :funny:


Max

[Tess (Tassie D)]

Knowing Christine, if she has Lawrence Welk's accordion and is learning to polka, the next thing we may expect is a batch of photos covered in Polka Dots.  >:(

She is very ingenious and will soon develop the accordion to produce dots as she plays - beware! :funny:

Max

:wow:  :funny: