Restoration, Recolorization, Retouching
With over ten years of on-the-job professional experience in photo restoration, with an additional tens years prior to that in freelance digital retouching, I possess highly advanced Photoshop skills. Being both an artist and a photographer with a studio lighting background enable me to edit extremely realistic images by drawing in necessary details; matching textures, sharpness, and color; and painting shadows and shading as a finishing touch to complete the photo.
I was not the photographer of these images, but I did all of the artwork in retouching, restoring, recolorizing, and editing each image. Many of the retouched pictures are great examples of the pixel perfect photos I strive to create with my own photography.
The following before and after images are examples of the versatile edits I do every day:
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- Remove scratches, stains, and other markings
- Fill in missing pieces of photograph
- Draw in details of faded images
- Eliminate oxidation of old black & white photos
- Reconnect pictures broken into multiple pieces
- Recreate damaged text in written documents
- Recolorize faded photographs of people, landscapes, & still life
- Colorize black & white images
- Eliminate discolorization spots on pictures
- Paint natural shading, shadows, and details
- Remove and/or replace people in photos
- Add new people into the picture
- Reposition existing people and change their posing
- Swap heads (or full body) with the same person from another image
- Draw in missing parts of people, buildings, & objects to complete the picture
- Change backgrounds
- Create a portrait of one person in the photo
- Combine parts of multiple images into one picture
- Enhance color, contrast, and details
- Minimize glares, blemishes, and shadows
- Remove objects and other distracting elements
- Extend canvas to make a specific print size or change the image orientation
- Fix out-of-place clothing or hair
- Open closed eyes
- Correct lens distortion, perspective, and rotation
- Change color of apparel, hair, or other items
