Picture Repairs or Cleaning: Paintshop Pro or other editors.
Picture repair or cleaning using Photo Shop or Paint Shop Pro or another program .... in this case a very old version of Paintshop pro v0.6 (now v0.9) can make a big difference to what is posted up.
Cleaning: Before and After: The picture was obviously scanned with mildew spots and dirty ..... So using minimalist cleaning techniques ("Least is Best") I cleaned the face, skin and hair line by cloning from good sections. I removed a few white spots as well, but didn't paint or redraw anything. http://img172.imagevenue.com/loc376/..._123_376lo.jpg http://img199.imagevenue.com/loc181/..._123_181lo.jpg Photo Repairs: Folds and Tears etc Before and After: The original has - rips, fold marks and missing sections ... the repaired version has most of these removed .... oh and to show what can be done I took out a fence post from the foreground :) http://img248.imagevenue.com/loc546/..._123_546lo.jpg http://img163.imagevenue.com/loc183/..._123_183lo.jpg The tricks are;
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Basic Clone Tool Usage
I don't know what I was expecting, but I hoped all the Photo Shop and Paint Shop Pro experts, and others of that ilk would flock to the thread, and reveal the wonders of colouring B&W photo's etc ...... but I guess that if you want something doing, do it yourself .... mutter, mumble moan. :rolleyes:
Hopefully this will encourage the experts to give hints so these posts are only the basics for each tool, and use various versions of the only tool I have access to, Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop videos. Other tools and versions will vary in how to use the functionality, but the basics are the same. Cloning: Best described as copying one part of a picture or another picture and pasting it over another part in the same or another picture. This is not strictly cutting and pasting, which is a collage effect, this is more a blending process. Golden Rule Number One: For ALL these tasks use a COPY VERSION of the picture not the original. Use one or two copies as suits task, but leave original safe as you may need to make more copies. Remember, you can clone from numerous sources into one picture.
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Before and After illustration
Using a newspaper picture of Linda Lusardi .... a very poor picture scan from her thread. First I re-sized it (made it a bit smaller), and gave it more 'colour' depth, but it was still very creased from the original very poor scan and not good quality .... similarly the 2nd pic was damaged, with missing parts
Before examples http://img131.imagevenue.com/loc543/..._123_543lo.jpg .... and this one .... http://img144.imagevenue.com/loc745/..._123_745lo.jpg So I then worked on each for about 30 mins, using the cloning function and got these ... After examples http://img161.imagevenue.com/loc209/..._123_209lo.jpg .... and this one .... http://img128.imagevenue.com/loc69/t...2_123_69lo.jpg Its not a perfect technique by any means (although on light repairs its 100%), but these are examples of what can be done to rescue even the worst of images e.g. if you have a family event from an old Newspaper. |
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Although I don't think most folks need Photoshop, most of the time, image repair is one case where Photoshop's tools are better than other stuff. "Content aware fill" and "content aware healing" are really quite good at handling some of the tougher cases One more technique that I've seen used -- using vectors to define shapes lost in the original. That is, you can use the pen tool to make a sharp edge where you've got muddy newsprint and moire. This takes you beyond "restoring" a photo to essentially creating a new, better image based on the photo. I've experimented myself, but I'm not all that proficient with vector/vexel art techniques. |
GIMP - Freeware Picture Tool
As someone pointed out, some people don't want to pay for Photoshop or PaintShopPro so I found a freeware version of a phototool that does all the same tricks.
GIMP is an open source picture draw and manage tool Take a look at the on-line manuals in various languages here and in English here You can download it from here |
Faking Pictures
The most popular thread in the classic celebrities section of this site is the 'Classic Celebrity Fakes ~ Now with added rules' - this is not my thing, but there you are. A bit of imagination and a lot of squinting your eyes can take you along way!
However I suddenly realised that there must be a lot of interest in creating these so I have had a go, using Mamie Van Doren as the model. I have added the results here so that those who would like to do this can consider the techniques. Before: ................ After: http://img270.imagevenue.com/loc341/..._123_341lo.jpghttp://img250.imagevenue.com/loc517/..._123_517lo.jpg The tricks to success are similar to that for repairs, but I would suggest that you use two base pictures similar to the intended end result, this not only saves messing about but does a lot of the work for you .... just pasting the head on another body rarely results in a realistic fake :rolleyes: For this one I used multiple versions of the same image mirrored and twisted, so that everything in it is 'real' i.e. All bits are of Ms van Doren and in that respect its not 'fake' but of course she has never done any open leg shots .... that we know of. I posted the pic on the fake thread as well because it was a shame to waste it. :thumbsup: |
Faking Pictures Part 2
This is only technically a fake .... I removed the leather panties and replaced them with her pussy and ass from her nude modelling days as Cassandra Peterson. So its more a mock up than a fake.
http://img216.imagevenue.com/loc141/..._123_141lo.jpg http://img102.imagevenue.com/loc480/..._123_480lo.jpg This was created using the clone and picture repair tool (soften function) tool to blend in genuine body parts .... I only used nudes as this is an erotic site but it works for hands. feet etc ... |
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Final Presentation Makes A Difference
Don't always aim for perfection .... good results can be achieved from very bad initial sources, as I have shown ..... the following is a good example:
http://img167.imagevenue.com/loc1012...123_1012lo.jpg After http://img192.imagevenue.com/loc463/..._123_463lo.jpg Top Tip Both the pictures above are reduced from the very large version on the web .... when working with a very large picture, consider resizing to a smaller version when you have finished the repair ... the very large pictures highlight those blemishes that only hours of work might remove, and lets be honest most pictures (like the one above), aren't worth that effort (which isn't guaranteed to work). .... but after I had cleaned and repaired, and then reduced in size again, then the end results are very good, and without having to waste hours on all the scuffs that it would take ages to fix up. http://img213.imagevenue.com/loc827/..._123_827lo.jpg of course, where you can use floodfill (you can't always do so - but thats another post), then you can get rid of background scuffs, and this is the final version http://img182.imagevenue.com/loc214/..._123_214lo.jpg |
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