Lovingly Restored

[Ohkeema]

Before...


...after



This is a picture of my mother-in-law with the cast of the movie "Tulsa" taken at its premier in 1949 at the Orpheum Theatre in Tulsa, Oklahoma (she's the short one in the middle). I primarily used the clone stamp tool and the healing brush. When I gave it to her, she liked everything but how her face looked. So I took another picture of her from the same time period, cut out her face, pasted it into a layer, used free transform to get the angle just right and then a layer mask to paint out the edges. Critique is welcome, but be gentle with me...it's my first post in this forum.

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[BabetteKD]

I love your retouching job, expecially the addition of the patterened wallpaper.
This must have taken forever, but it was obviously worth it.

[ocnsprt]

I have to say I am pleasantly surprised, this is a great repair and the new face looks so natural I had to look tt the original twice to realize youd canged it, very natural and overall GREAT!!!!!

[LyndaDi]

I had to do this in a Photoshop class so I know what it took to do such a great job, especially since this particular picture was in pretty bad shape. These old pictures are so great and definately worth the effort.

Congrats

[sk66]

Excellent job! I'm impressed!

[mfreg]

beautiful job, well done. I couldn't even imagine being able to do this.

regards
mike

[vitreousvisions]

looks amazing! i wonder though why is the girl in the center looking a different way?

[WenRob]

Really EXCELLENT job. I can't imagine the work it must have taken. I personally am not a fan of replacing heads (or people) so this may be a little biased but I think the replacement looks a little unnatural. Like I said, it's more then likely just me.

[BigSquareHead]

Bravo.

I'm curious how long would you estimate it took you to do this?

Fabulous job BTW.

[Ohkeema]

I started the photo a year ago, but wasn't happy with my skills at that time. Too green at PS I guess. A couple of weekends ago I decided I'd procrastinated enough and started all over. That time took me about a day to finish it.

I must say the face has bothered me too, but couldn't quite put my finger on what was wrong. Thought it was probably the angle too, so I think I'll tinker with it a bit more.

Thanks for your comments guys!