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Photographs My Latest Project

th1b.taylor

th1b.taylor

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The original was shot and printed in Sepia by my son-in-law. The young lass with the visible attitude and the Single Action Army .45 on her hip is my adopted granddaughter, Ashley, seated in the middle is her little brother, before he passed, and the other lass is her cousin.

Due to normal family stupidity, when Freddy died all his photos were stolen from his wife, my daughter by his sister and as you can see from the original, they were not kindly treated in their stay in South Louisiana but his sister did give this and one other, a baby picture he took, to Ash for her second anniversary and Papaw got them to restore.

For my taste the sepia is to red but I loved Freddy and left the color alone, in his honor. I blew my copies of this to print at 20x16". I'm happy with this one and oh, by the way, I get bored, a lot! If you are not a photographer and you have an old picture that has been destroyed, I do not want them but if you can scan them and get them to me by email, I do not charge. I do not refuse donations but that is between you and God, and not me, I'm really cheap... free!
 
reba said:
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I pray my favorite young Christian Lady loves it. Thank you Reba. This one took me four days so at a hundred a day, it would have cost the baby girl way, way to much. I did a 1x1.5" strip photo black and white for a lady friend of ours and blew the 1930s, 4 for a dime, photo so it could be printed 8x10 and since it was for her family's Christmas gifts I colored it, red haired mother and black haired father and all. I wanted nothing but she demanded my Paypal account and she gave me fifty. She is alone on SS and that is a huge amount of money to her and it bought me some computer toys, pleased the snot out of both of us.
 
th1b.taylor said:
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The original was shot and printed in Sepia by my son-in-law. The young lass with the visible attitude and the Single Action Army .45 on her hip is my adopted granddaughter, Ashley, seated in the middle is her little brother, before he passed, and the other lass is her cousin.

Due to normal family stupidity, when Freddy died all his photos were stolen from his wife, my daughter by his sister and as you can see from the original, they were not kindly treated in their stay in South Louisiana but his sister did give this and one other, a baby picture he took, to Ash for her second anniversary and Papaw got them to restore.

For my taste the sepia is to red but I loved Freddy and left the color alone, in his honor. I blew my copies of this to print at 20x16". I'm happy with this one and oh, by the way, I get bored, a lot! If you are not a photographer and you have an old picture that has been destroyed, I do not want them but if you can scan them and get them to me by email, I do not charge. I do not refuse donations but that is between you and God, and not me, I'm really cheap... free!
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It's so sad how photos aren't appreciated by some people. So sad.

You've done a grand job with the restoration!
 
AirDancer said:
It's so sad how photos aren't appreciated by some people. So sad.

You've done a grand job with the restoration!
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This one is different from my other best work. I had a circa 1905 black and white of a Deacon's grandfather seated on one of the Carolina's mountains playing a hand of poker and drinking some clear liquid with no label on the jar. It had been, at one point glued to a piece of Bake-O-Lite that had broken in half and the bottom half of the right side had been lost. Over the years the edges where it had broken in half had worn away leaving a 3/8" to a half inch gap.

I scanned it at 1200 dpi and put the halves back together, closing the gap and then using the Clone tool in GIMP (free Photoshop Tool) I rebuilt the missing foliage and part of grandpa's butt. I printed it at eight by ten and gave him the Digital File so he could get it printed life size. He keeps the work in his living room for all to see and there is no better compliment than that to any artist, digital or brush.
 
No, I primarily use layers to create new works or to add people into photos. This was done with GIMP and the Clone, Smudge and Air Brush tool working on the pic at 200 to 1300 percent to get the best match on skin and fabric. I use layers, primarily, to reproduce lost or badly damaged documents like marriage licenses. That or adding a person into a photo.

One method I favor a lot for repairing a face is to point to point Select half a face, the best side, paste it as a layer, flip it horizontally and make the complete face. I did not have that issue here but I have used it al good deal in restoring Infant Photos.
 
That's ingenious. Probably looks real enough to be acceptable, even though most of us have faces that are significantly assymetrical.

Infants likely would be less so. Adults? (Barbarian thinks...)
 
Barbarian said:
That's ingenious. Probably looks real enough to be acceptable, even though most of us have faces that are significantly assymetrical.

Infants likely would be less so. Adults? (Barbarian thinks...)
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In a pinch it makes an excellent starting point. II the individual is less than fourteen and has not had a major incident before then to their face, it is largely symmetrical and if not and another photo cannot be provided with a same or close shot angle of the head, and for this to work the subject must be like the three in example above. to much angle and another Head shot is required and that takes layer work that must be merged or flattened.

If the is much difference and asymmetrical differences that are clear the layer or any portion of the layer can be blown to about 1300 percent and use the point to point select followed with the Screen Warp Tool to twist that area, often using Shift z hundreds of times until the feature is close enough to pass. There is a good reason why professional photographers hate me but I cannot charge anyone from 15 to 40 an hour for work I enjoy doing.

One I did for a friend of ours for Christmas took me a week because I am so weak now and fall to sleep a lot. It was a four pictures for a dime, black and white and 1"x1 1/2". I blew it to 10x14" and with the Spray Paint feature colored her hair to midrange auburn. I painted her eyes green and her fedora to look like brown felt. I gave her scarf the green treatment, colorerd her blouse and jacked. At the lady's request painted her dad's skin a little deeper than mom's and she took the file to Walgreens and printed them, She framed them and it was her gift to them and she said everyone went wild over them. I liked that one enough that I saved the various stages.
 
Barbarian said:
Sounds like the basis for a You Tube tutorial.
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Everything I have detailed here has been provided by the creators of Gimp on both you tube tutorials and in illustrated pdf formats. And if any know me they can explain that ego be damned in my case.

If i were to use the talents awarded me by my LORD, as I did before my conversion, it would be a point for much argument and evidence by both camps of the OSAS arguments. I need only to cease controlling the old man that is still carried by me and I will, not might, I will fall away from God.

I'm glad you like the work and if you have any pics in need of my help I will be happy to do some for you, free.
 
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I appreciate that, and I might take you up on it. More importantly, you've given me a few ideas to pursue myself.
 
I don't know if you use PS, GIMP or what but if you download Gimp, it runs at least three times faster in any Linux distro than in windoze but is does run and the tutorials are available on the gimp.org web site and youtube. And many of the PS tools work with GIMP also. The truth is, because my brain function is deteriorating at an alarming rate I can be of some assistance but I no longer do major Computer Projects like Networking because I need to look all my answers up on computer web sites if for nothing else, just to check what I do remember. But if I can help, please, ask. Helping with GIMP is one of my favorite past times.
 
I love GIMP. I use it for my photo club, because it's free, and a lot of the kids have little or no money to buy anything. Most of my guys use cell phone cameras.

The software we use includes AutoHDR, Microsoft ICE, and NeatImage. All freeware or free demo. They get pretty good at using those aps.
 
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