Need a little help

[tflyin2]

Hi Guys, I'm about finished with this one but I need a little help with a couple items.  After rebuilding the gentleman on the left side of the image he appeared too sharp and stood out in the image.  I added a little gaussian blur to set him back a little.  Question, does that look better now???  Also, Bambi pointed out that his texture dosen't match the rest of the image.  Does anyone have a good technique to match textures.  I have no ideal how thats done and really I don't think I even see a difference.  Suggestions would really be appricated.  And if you see anything else that needs attention, please let me know.....thanks in advance...  Here are the original and the repaired images....








Ted

[Bambi]

Hi, Ted:

I can't offer much help on rebuilding the face and the camera, but I want to point out that some of the little white streaks that you carefully repaired were rice being thrown. You left the rice on the ground, but without the streaks, the picture doesn't look quite right.

Bambi

[Hannie]

Great repair job you did on the man on the left Ted!
I wonder if you soften the outline of the repairs a little and lessen he dark shadown on the side of his face some, it would blend in better with the rest of the image?

Hannie

[tflyin2]

Hey guys....I'm about finished with this one and need a few suggestions on the gentleman on the right side of the image.  I had to rebuild his face and clean up his suit.  One suggestion I had recieved was that he looks too sharp and his texture didn't match the rest of the picture....Take a look and let me know what you all think.  How do I match the texture with the rest of the picture.  I tried adding a little gaussian blur but I can't tell if that help any.   thoughts please

Here are the before and after images...





Thanks in advance   

[ldurkin]

the contrast seems a little too high to me.  But maybe that it just because I'm too young to know what old black and white photos looked like new.

[tflyin2]

Thanks Bambi, Hannie and Ldurkin.....I'll go back and see if i can incorporate those suggestions.  Bambi I'll put those rice streaks back in, it shouldn't be to diffficult to do that....thanks

[tflyin2]

Hey Guys, heres my latest repair on this image.  I added back the flying rice and reduced the shadows  and contrast on the gentleman on the right side of the image.  I also added a bit more texture to him...how does it look now....????



thanks,

TED

[Pat]

Hi Ted,

Nice job :up2:

The forum is a wonderful learning environment.  It can be kind of confusing to other volunteers who are trying to follow the progress of a restoration from start to finish when photos are removed from a previous topic and multiple new topics are started for a particular photo.

Pat

[Hannie]

Topic moved

[Mhayes]

Ted, please do not move or delete your work in progress from your post on the forum. I realized that you are new and probably do not realize that when you post a photo once it does not stay there if you move it from your either the host site or your computer. For example: With Photobucket if you move and image either from their site or your computer, the link is broken and you will see the error message shown. You can add the photo back in, but it will now have a new link.

If this happens very often it makes the post somewhat worthless as there is nothing to compare to. Please in the future do not remove or move your photos. I have been posting images from Photobucket since 2007 and I still have an abundance of free space. On my hard drive I create a folder specifically for Photobucket so that I do not have missing links.

Thanks,

Margie

[glennab]

Hi Ted

Regarding your question about recovering texture:  I've found that once I've done my repairs, I can usually pull texture from pristine areas (if there are any!) with the patch tool and get a pretty decent result.  It's not always the solution, but worth a try.

GK