Digital Art And Design Fall 22 - Robert Holland

  Module 5: Photo Retouch Final This week’s assignment was a personally rewarding one.  I chose to restore an old picture of my mother, who passed away when I was nine.  This picture was taken in front of my grandmother’s house in West Virginia.  It brought back memories of traveling down there to see the family.    To restore this picture, I decided to keep it black and white to retain it’s originality.  Doing so, I utilized three Photoshop retouching tools.  The first thing I did was copy the picture so that all changes would be made to the layers above the original.  I then adjusted each of the levels (RGB) to bring out the black and white colors.  I used the healing brush and the clone stamp to make minor corrections. For the majority of the restoration, I used the spot healing brush, which did and amazing job.

For our assignment this week, I thought about doing an avatar, because it looks interesting and will add new tools to my toolbelt.  I instead will choose to retouch an old photo.  I made this choice because it is something that means a lot to me.  My family and I have been looking over our family history which included old photos and learning/practicing how to retouch them will go a long way.  Help me choose the  photo that I retouch for part 2. This is a picture of my mother, who passed away when I was 9.  I was and still am a mother's boy, so I don't think I need to explain how much this picture means to me. This second picture is a picture of the church that my family would go to when we went to visit my grandmother in West Virginia.  I have fond memories of those days, my cousins and I often look back and refer to them. Last but not least is a picture of my cousins mother, who I do not recall meeting.  This of the three, I believe is the most distressed.

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