Very Old Photo
 

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This is a picture of my Mum 8 yrs old (left) and her sister aged 6.

It's the only photo of them as children and it was taken 72 years ago.

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Wow mate, what a transformation and youve managed to keep it looking aged.

That's very impressive, is it done manually or does a programme do it at the click of a button? Sorry, don't know much about photo editing!

It's a multi process to achieve.

you've done a good job there! :doubleup:

Double post

First job was to clone out the folds, creases and old marks.

I then made a duplicate in black & white then merged over the original at 72% so I could just see what to work on.

Much mapping was done to achieve realistic faded colouring to still achieve an old appearance.

I then needed to optimize the features of both faces and hands and re shade prominent features.

After that I had to re-shadow everything including much in the clothing.

Next was to trim a haze that was evident around all edge then blend to achieve a foreground / background depending on what part I was doing.


Reluctantly I would find it impossible to do commissions as it takes a huge amount of hours to achieve this finish from the original.



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Absolutely Brilliant job mate.

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Wow!

Absolutly stunning mate, my dads got loads of old photos of his mum and dad like that from the war, not very good condition either :-( could you do anythng from a scanned photo sent to you?

Fantastic, clive.

Amazing, excellent job!!! :10:

Thanx Gents.

Andy, I would never have time to do other jobs like that mate. I done that one for my Mum's Birthday last week and it takes heaps of hours to finish just one pic.

Sorry Bud.

That's awesome Clive!!

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Cheers mate.

My Mum hasn't seen it yet :)

This Thursday.

Your mum is going to love it , realy nice job :ok:.

That's very clever Clive, no idea how you did it, even with your explanation.

Thats ok mate, if you ever change your mind just let me know, ill be happy to send some paper or electronic monies your way lol :-)