restoration_retouch_demos Photo Gallery by alanm at pbase.com

restoration_retouch_demos

About 20 years ago I began restoring about a dozen, or so, old family photos. What started out as a hobby, became an on-going passion for not only restoring, but for archiving these priceless images. In the other vintage photo galleries on my PBase site, I've restored over 400 images so that family & friends could visit and experience, again, these precious moments in time. This particular gallery was created so you may see my labor-of-love "before & after" images. This will be an "on-going" work-in-progress until I either run out of photos, or run out of storage space. Press on any of the thumbnail photos to enlarge for a more detailed view. The larger, single thumbnails offer a "before & after" animated gif to better demonstrate the degree of difficulty of the restorations. I restore all my images manually, using various tools, in photoshop. I don't use any auto-retouching algorithms. How fun is that?

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Guest		31-Dec-2005 06:32
Excellent work. Your talent, and your patience is extraordinary.

Julio Rodriguez		11-Aug-2004 05:29
Alan, great stuff, I can appreciate the work you put into these photographs, thanks for directing me to your site. Julio

Jill		12-Jul-2004 21:31
Wonderful work - truly a labor of love. Your restoration work is complete, very good detail and not overdone in the least.

Peter		11-Jul-2004 20:53
I don't have problem with re-touching pictures. What you do is beyond re-touching. When you add things to photos, they are no longer photos. You should call what you do "digital portrait drawing"

Daniel Wickwire		26-Jul-2003 14:23
This is great how you've provided these photos for everyone to enjoy--especially your family. I did a similar project last year. It's wierd to say but it changed my life. I experienced those that came before me in a very deep and unexpected way. To spend hours on a photo working up close on the face of a long absent parent or grandparent at various stages of their life is a very moving experience. Thanks for adding the intriguing "before and after" aspect of this. Very good!!! Dan.

Sabine Stetson		22-Jul-2003 05:21
dear real mensch, what a real and great labor of love you are practising...compliments...awakening the images of the ones that came before us... (and their names are still known). sadly i had to toss lots of family pictures...at that moment the pictured persons became really dead forever.....keep up your menschlichkeit...and great work. thank you , blessings, sabine

Rick		21-Jul-2003 19:54
Your restoration technique is superb! The removal of the masking tape , perfect matching opened eyes etc... It was a pleasure to see your work , are you self taught?

Guest		19-Jul-2003 14:16
Wow, you are truly a master of photoshop! I know all the bells and whistles, and I still cant restore photos that well. Great choice of family pictures too!

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