Main Topics:
Rebuilding, Rearranging and recreating potraits
- Rebuilding Backgrounds
- Finding Suitable Replacement Materials
- Building a Digital Background Collection
- Rebuilding a Portrait
- Rearranging a Portrait
- Rearranging a Photograph to Minimize the background
- Reconstructing Color
© K. Hillerström
2007 
Paste into This image was having destroyed red channel. It was very interesting to learn how to built it again with using the other channels information. First I needed to make a mask as an alpha channel and then I used blue channel and used "Paste into" command for replacing it to the red channel. Rest work was painting color back. The layers mode was color and each color were set to it's own layer. That way it was easy to control opacity of each color.
Place your mouse over the image to see the original one.
Image copyright remains with original copyright holder as noted in Photoshop Restoration & Retouching 1, 2 & 3 editions. Image used by permission of Katrin Eismann www.digitalretouch.org.
The next image is also having a destroyed channel. This time the blue channel has lost all it's color information. I have used "Apply image" command for correcting this image.
When using "Apply image" command we can control also layer mode and opacity or use even a mask. "Apply image" is a amazing feature in Photoshop. It can be used for adding information from other channels and even duplicating the channel itself, adding this way the information of the weak channels.
After applying the information to channels the colors will not be correct straight a head. For correcting the colors I have first used the Curves layer. The rest of the colors we need to paint back using layers in color mode and maybe masks.
Here's my result of Katrin's image. I did search a long time, but didn't find any images from my own photographs including destroyed channels. That's a thing you can't see
Place your mouse over the image to see the original one.
Image copyright remains with original copyright holder as noted in Photoshop Restoration & Retouching 1, 2 & 3 editions. Image used by permission of Katrin Eismann www.digitalretouch.org
The lady in the image is my aunt. This is an old faded image and the scanner did add more that red color cast for it. I've been waiting an opportunity to get a new scan for this image, as I'm not having own scanner, but I get tired for waiting and did start work with this image.
This was extremely hard one image. The skin color does not please me at all, but I need to rest my eyes and do better one of the next scan.
All the channels did have information. Only he red channel was a little faded and to that channel I used "Apply image" command. I made it stronger and choose red channel and multiply mode 100%. I use also levels correction and the rest work was totally painting using layers in Color and Soft light mode. I also add a new background. It's maybe too fair or what do you think?
Jimmy's image is having replacement images. His left ear is corrected with a help of Bonnie's grand daughter's ear image. Then I took a copy of the left face half and flipped it horizontally and place over the right side. The eyebrows are from a iStockimage.
I clean the blemishes in a face with a selections and gaussian blur. Some cloning and healing brush. I used also gaussian blur for the lips and teeth. Selective color correction for the yellow parts and the final touch up is in a painting layers. One painting layer for the shadows and the other for shadows.
Slightly whitening for the teeth and eyes using levels layer in a screen mode and then lowing down the opacity of the layers.
Once a again a million thanks to you Bonnie for helping me to finish this image. Your image was so helpful. Many thanks also Kath and Carol for helpful comments.
Image copyright remains with original copyright holder as noted in Photoshop Restoration & Retouching 1, 2 & 3 editions. Image used by permission of Katrin Eismann www.digitalretouch.org.
A second tryout of Jimmy on the right. The shadows and highlight can do so much. He's maybe too dark now.
