Great work Dave .... my hat's off to you. Shel
> [Original Message] > From: David Savage > I cheated of course ;-) > > Basically I mirrored the exposed part of the face and placed it over > the obstructed side. This is how I did it. > > - Using the measure tool draw a line through the centre of the tigers > face. Then Image>Rotate Canvas>Arbitrary, to align the centre of the > face to the horizontal or vertical. > > - Create a copy of the background layer, then flip it. > Edit>Transform>Flip Horizontal (or vertical, depending on which way > you rotated the image) > > - Adjust the opacity so you can see the original underlying layer, and > then move it around until things line up. Reset the opacity to 100% > > - Rotate it back to it's original orientation. Image>Rotate > Canvas>Arbitrary (it will remember the previous measurement) > > - Use layer masks & the paint brush tool to blend the 2 layers together. > > -Crop. > > - Clone out the catch light in it's right eye, and clone in the one > from it's left. > > - Create a new layer over all the others and fill with a black to > white gradient going from the bottom left to the top right & change > it's blend mode to soft light. This is to help reintroduce some of the > shadow in the bottom LH corner > > I've used this technique many times to restore old damaged family photos. > > Cheers, > > Dave > > On 10/19/06, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, there y'go. You're clearly a lot better than I at making such > > repairs. I'd have probably struggled for hours on that. How'd you do it > > so well and so quickly? > > <http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/Images/sfzoo_0248_std%5b1%5d.jpg> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
