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Brad Lawryk
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August 30, 2016
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Anyone else do Photo Restoration?

  • August 30, 2016
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I also do photo restoration mainly as a hobby. Would love to see some of your work and maybe share techniques and resources.

Here are a couple recent ones of mine. I should add that the actual hi-res finished images are better quality than what is shown.

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    whimzpix
    Participant
    September 5, 2016

    nice work!

    Inspiring
    August 30, 2016

    Very nice work! I have done photo restoration also. it's a lot of fun.

    ThePhotoRetoucher
    Participating Frequently
    August 30, 2016

    Yes full time! My Blog is loaded with tips and gems of information and there are now 7 courses to view on Lynda.com that I have produced. Neil Rhodes — Photography, Photoshop: training, tutorials & online classes  or the blog at www.image-restore.co.uk/blog/

    Not sure if links are allowed on the thread but hopefully they will be of some help.

    Brad Lawryk
    Legend
    August 30, 2016

    Hi Neil! Yes, I have seen your videos on Lynda.com. Great tutorials. I'll be sure to check out your blog too.

    Thanks for the link. ;-)

    Chuck Uebele
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    August 30, 2016

    Just a little for personal use. This is one I did of my 3rd great-grandmother from a rather dark tintype. Some of the things I did was to photograph the tintype with cross polarizing filter to get rid of excess glare and on paper surfaces to help remove texture. The before shot was done without filtration. A lot more detail showed up with the filtration. Also I used some bandpass filtration using the highpass filter. What you do is use the highpass then gaussian blur to isolate spacial areas of the image. I used one setting to bring out the lace collar, another for the hair texture, one to increase the facial modeling, and one for bringing out the folds in the dress. The background was pretty messed up with dust and other crap, so I just recreated a new one.