Photo repair and restoration - digitally restoring your old photographs

 
Photo repair and restoration - digitally restoring your old photographs
Hi all Regular visitors may be familiar with my entries into photoshop competitions. A short while ago I entered a photoshop competition to manipulate a photo of some tree bark on pxleyes website. I have just been back there to see how my entry was doing and I came second! I am most pleased...
Photo repair and restoration - digitally restoring your old photographs
Thanks to all who attended the Woking Family History Fair Today 31st October 2009, it was good day and everyone enjoyed it. I was located just inside the main door but outside the main hall...
Photo repair and restoration - digitally restoring your old photographs
Hi all I will be attending the Woking Family History Fair on the 31st October 2009. It will be held in Woking leisure centre from 10am to 4pm. If youwish to come along I will be just inside the door, look out for the banner...
Photo repair and restoration - digitally restoring your old photographs
Dont add a new background before you have thought long and hard about why you need to. If the reason is, 'its easier', that is the wrong one.
Photo repair and restoration - digitally restoring your old photographs
Some of you may have noticed a slow down in blog posts recently. I have been concentrating on quality not quantity of posts. Rather than churn out photo restoration articles with thin, pointless content, I am taking the slow approach to ensure that each one covers new aspects or expands on others...
Photo repair and restoration - digitally restoring your old photographs
Photographers have been taking Panoramas for years, school photos and groups of large people were often shot in panorama, army, navy, military groups an schools. The longest so far I have restored is 53 inches wide!, 7 inches short of the widest print I can have made...
Photo repair and restoration - digitally restoring your old photographs
Restoring photos of your pets is just as important as restoring photos of your family. Well they are family aren’t they. Here I am showing the progress through restoring photo a dog. The photo is heavily damaged but with some careful thought it can be restored. ...
Photo repair and restoration - digitally restoring your old photographs
Low resolution digital photos can be restored but only as far as the pixels allow. Each image is made up from a collection of tiny pixels, all the colours and shades of the image made from small squares. If large areas of the image are blurred due to a dirty lens, or blurred due [...]
Photo repair and restoration - digitally restoring your old photographs
Original photos are made from layers. Old black and white photos were often made from fibre based paper...
Photo repair and restoration - digitally restoring your old photographs
The question is, is it an original? Genealogy and preserving photos isn’t new. The chances are somewhere in the family collection of old photos there are some that look a little smoother and shinier than the other, they still look old but just not as wrinkled. ...
Photo repair and restoration - digitally restoring your old photographs
So much can be achieved with photo restoration, just browse through the blog and the website to get broad spectrum of what is possible. Check through the lists below there may be a link with another article or web page you haven’t seen yet. ...
Photo repair and restoration - digitally restoring your old photographs
A simple montage of an overweight cow and a dragon fly who cant believe his eyes. I hope you liked my photoshop gallery this week and there will be more in the future. Back to photo restoration posts once again for next few posts, stay tuned.
Photo repair and restoration - digitally restoring your old photographs
This is day 5 of photomontage week. This image is simply a water tower tied in a knot! It was an entry into a worth1000 photoshop competition but that entry I forgot to upload the version that contained the shadows (that will teach me to work late into the night!!) It only came 11 out of [...]
Photo repair and restoration - digitally restoring your old photographs
This is day 4 of photomontage week and this latest image is “luminous ocean” 4th out of 15 on pxleyes.com This image was created from a an old wooden sea groin that had been worn by the sea. The two towers of rock are actually wood in this montage. The stones were also borrowed from the [...]
Photo repair and restoration - digitally restoring your old photographs
This is the day 3 of photomontage week. This image is called “dinner”. The baby is actually looking at the tip of an acorn, not what you think! A simple montage of a baby with an acorn, dodged and burned to look like baby lunch! Another one tomorrow…