Thanks for the details. I don't think I even had PhotoShop yet when I
did my own reconstruction from torn pieces. It was probably done in
Picture Window. Exactly how I can't recall but I think it was an 8x10
and all the pieces could be fitted together on the scanner.
I hadn't thought of scanning pieces and repositioning with layers and
free transform but it sounds like a good way to do it should I ever get
one in pieces again. And I see some more praise of the content aware
feature. I'll most assuredly have to give that a go.
I think scanning at 1200 dpi was probably a good choice for trying to
position the pieces. One can always reduce it later on.
Chuck Norcutt
On 2/18/2011 2:46 PM, Paul Laughlin wrote:
> On 2/18/2011 11:10 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> Yes, the original was shown in several separated pieces as though the
>> photo had been torn up. I did work on a similar image several years ago
>> where a husband (in need of anger management training) had torn up the
>> wife's photo and the kids wanted mother's picture restored. I was just
>> wondering how you created the base "original" from the pieces and
>> whether any significant small details had gone missing during the tearing.
> Okay, the picture is of my brother-in-laws grandmother. Considering
> that he is around 82 years old, the picture must have been taken
> sometime before 1900. I have no idea how the damage was done. I made a
> comment to my sister that I had some pretty good results with restoring
> images. Also that I need something to do as I have COPD and am somewhat
> limited in mobility. She said that they had a picture that they would
> like to have restored. When I got it, there was a bag full of pieces.
> Fortunately, the more critical parts of the face were intact. My first
> thought was, oh hell. Luckily, I had watched a similar profect by Jason
> Hoppe on one of his Retouch Live things, a year or so ago. That helped
> a lot.
> I scanned each individual piece at 1200 PPI. Probably a bit of
> overkill. LOL The overall image was quite large. The largest piece
> required two scans. The in PS CS5, I made a new canvas large enough to
> hold the entire image. I then placed each piece on its individual
> layer. Then, since some of the pieces had torn edges that had to
> overlay the torn edges of other pieces, I reordered the layers. Then
> using Select and Free Transform, I moved each piece into the correct
> position. After that, it was mostly the spot healing brush with content
> aware, Content Aware Fill, and the clone tool. I am really a big fan of
> the Content Aware thing. Still learning more about it every day, and I
> hopped on the band wagon with the trial installation prior the receiving
> the preordered upgrade.
> By the way, the World War I image of the soldiers was much more
> challenging. There were faces that were mostly obliterated.
> Fortunately, there were also many other faces to rob the necessary
> features from.
> If you have any questions or comments, feel free to holler.
> Paul in Portland OR
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