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Can an original photo be restored?
posted by nezbitten, Aug 20, 2009 6:18 AM — 2 commentsTo understand more about whether an original photo canbe restored we need to know more about how the photo is made.
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Never ending staircase
posted by nezbitten, May 12, 2009 3:06 PM — 15 comments
Every wondered how those illusions of never ending staircases were made? Here's how!
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Matching grain and evening out a background
posted by nezbitten, May 4, 2009 8:21 PM — 0 commentsWhen restoring an old photo the grain in the background is the least important and it can be easily cleaned up.
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Examples of photo repair at its best
posted by nezbitten, Mar 8, 2009 11:56 PM — 1 commentsSome examples of what can be achieved within the restoration world that I live in
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Photo repair and saving images
posted by nezbitten, Nov 4, 2008 5:40 PM — 0 commentsThe effects that over compressing a JPEG file can have on your images.
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Photoshop fun making an eyeball - Updated!
posted by nezbitten, Jun 25, 2008 2:32 PM — 74 commentsPhoto repair posts are all very well for me but how about a bit of fun? Ever wanted to create a good looking eyeball in photoshop? Here is a tutorial and an action to help with just that. Tutorial brought to you from Image-Restore Photo repair uk

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3 ways to sepia tint a photo in Photoshop
posted by nezbitten, May 14, 2008 4:01 PM — 19 commentsThe trouble with PhotoShop is that there are many ways to do the same thing. This tutorial shows you how to tint an old black and white photo to sepia using three different methods, each give a similar result but with subtle differences.
A tutorial from Image-Restore.co.uk
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Patience, patience and more patience...
posted by nezbitten, Jan 11, 2008 3:25 PM — 11 commentsWhen you get a photo as bad as this, it is seriously tempting to let a quality photo restoration service do it for you. But if you were to takle this one it might be easiest to airbrush a new back ground or cheat by tightly cropping the photo so there is less work to do...

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Photo Repairs - The Importance of selection.
posted by nezbitten, Dec 2, 2007 12:24 AM — 0 commentsWhen carrying out photo restorations and reparing an old photograph quite often pieces of it need to be patched up and healed or cloned. To do this you may just grab the clone brush and clone over, but care and planning with selections can create a neater and more convincing job.
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Vanishing point, repair a missing peice of a photo
posted by nezbitten, Oct 23, 2007 1:10 PM — 2 commentsSometimes this can be tricky but it is normally a case of using your knowledge of light and shade as a photographer and knowing what looks natural.This photo restoration tip was brought to you by image-restore
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Photoshop fun making an eyeball - Updated!
Mar 12, 2010 9:38 PM nisswa wrote
I love the eyeball. You can post on my blog anytime you want to. I'd like to post your whole tutorial if possible. Let me know if your interested, http://minutekiller. ..
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Mar 12, 2010 8:25 PM newlifemtp wrote
Hello!
I'm creating a website for our church, New Life Christian Fellowship, and am extremely interested in a few of your family pictures. Would it be alright to use them and possibly edit them for advertising our events? Feel free to check out what we have so far:
http://www.newlifemt ..
Although it's still bare bones. Hopefully your art will perk it up a bit. :) Thanks!!!
Kristen
50 Incredible Photography Techniques and Tutorials
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Wow, very interesting. I definitely learned some new things to try. Thanks for the link.
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