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Photo restroation and colourising - Part 2
posted by nezbitten, May 4, 2011 9:22 AM — 2 commentsDigitally colouring photos in PhotoShop is not always straight forward especially skin. This post is the second in a two part explaining how to do it when photo retouching
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Hand tinting or colouring black and white photos
posted by nezbitten, Apr 25, 2011 9:55 AM — 0 commentsI’m sure you have seen photos that have been hand coloured when a photo restorationhas been made. They might be the old photos you own or photos you have seen on the net, coloured by “restoration artists”. Old photos were often tinted with inks, this post is about digital colourization or hand colouring using a computer.
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creating repeat patterns
posted by nezbitten, Jan 19, 2011 1:12 PM — 7 commentsCreating a repeat pattern is normally used for a background for a digital application of some kind, a web page, desk top or even as a texture for a game.
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Photo restoring a face
posted by nezbitten, May 3, 2010 3:41 PM — 6 commentsPhoto restoration of faces where a major part of the face is missing will always be tricky.
If it is not known anything about the features then it is down to the photo restoration artist to recreate the face in the most realistic way possible.» Read full post here
Retouching eyes
posted by nezbitten, Apr 8, 2010 7:53 AM — 4 commentsThis is one way to retouch eyes, there are of course others, but this is way i like to do it when I offer a photo retouching service
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Can an original photo be restored?
posted by nezbitten, Aug 20, 2009 6:18 AM — 3 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 — 31 comments
Every wondered how those illusions of never ending staircases were made? Here's how!
Tutorial brought to you from Wedding retouching and Photo restorations or commercial photo retouching
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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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