tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36643574282390299592024-03-05T08:46:07.003-05:00Restored Memories StudioWelcome to Restored Memories Studio!
Here I am showcasing my photo restoration before and after work.
I digitally restore treasured photographs, scan negatives and slides, convert 8mm and Super 8 home movies to DVD.
Below you will see the links to my 3 website locations. My email address Restoredmemories2009@yahoo.comRestored Memories \ Lost Ancestorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899397844650527209noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664357428239029959.post-2888125728957600862015-05-07T21:32:00.002-04:002015-06-23T10:33:06.918-04:00From Black & White to Full Color<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">From black & white to full color is what I call Colorizing</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> and this is what I have done for these photos. With Matt's permission, he allowed me to display my work on his photos. All the colors in the final photo where to Matt's specifications, the way he remembers the farms he grew up on. Two photos, one black & white, the other was hand colored years ago incorrectly. I suppose that is the beauty on digital coloring, once you paint the color you can change and correct easily. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I used Photoshop for all the coloring. Writing is not one of my strong suits but f</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">or this blog article I thought I would give a hand at writing my procedures used, not in step by step but what tools I used. This might be more interesting to folks who know the Photoshop tools. If you are not familiar and don't want to cross your eyes figuring out these terms, just scroll down to my "before and after" photos. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Color Adjustment tools</b> - </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I mainly used the Color adjustment tool for most of the coloring. Using the brush tool to literally paint the barns or trees or landscape etc. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Blending Tools</b> - I used the blending tools to blend the color into the image so the details of the photo come through the color. That's the fun part, you have to try the different blend tools to get the color and look you want. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Duplicate Layers</b> - Some layers I duplicated and the colors became more richer, then I toned down the opacity of the duplicate layer. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Blend Modes</b> - Some places I would choose the Soft Light blend mode and turned down the brush opacity instead of the layer opacity to paint parts and increased the brush opacity to paint other parts on the same layer. I kept </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">trying these blend mode tools until I said out loud "ooooh!" then that's the setting I wanted. (If you say "ooooh!" only in your head and not out loud it's not the setting and you keep trying). </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Blur Filters</b> - On almost all the colors I used the Glassian Blur filter tool to soften the edges blending in the color more. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I named each layer the object or objects I colored. This way later if I need to change the color I can find layer for that object easily and change the color without creating a new layer repainting that object. I must have changed the barn and out buildings at least 4-5 or more times and the wheat field at least 3 or more times and the cedar trees about 3 time etc....I used about 5 or 6 different green colors with different blend modes so the landscape is not all the same color.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now the hand colored photo was more trickier for using the blend modes because the color I am painting on top of the original color is blending in with the original color. Therefor the color is not what I chose. I mostly used the color or normal blend modes and adjust the layer opacity and or the brush opacity to get the color I want. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Using color adjustment or sometimes photo adjustment tools gives me a layer mask which is really great. I invert the mask from white to black which hides the color until I start to paint. White brush adds and black brush subtracts. For example the barn I painted red so the color adjustment layer has the red color icon and I am painting with but my bush tool which shows either white or black. Toggling back and forth with the alt key so I can paint red with the white brush to add use the alt key to the black brush to erase red color where I over painted. Masks are wonderful for that. Keep in mind you have to have the mask selected for this to work. Looking at my Layers panel almost every layer has a mask. Color adjustment layers gives me the color icons to use when I need to change the color. See simple isn't it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The History panel is invaluable to me. I can't tell you how many time I clicked back in the history panels to undo. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I also used different brushes </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">changing the scatter, rotation and distance settings</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">to add purple lilacs to the lilac bushes, and the leaf brush to scatter fall leaves under the trees. Round brushes to add grapes to the grape vine, orange ditch lilies behind the shed, marigolds along the fence and purple and white wild sweet peas flower along the road.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once I had the photo completely colored I used Curves and Levels adjustment tools for the brightness and color until it looked good to me. I used Camera Raw filter to adjust the clarity to make the photo a little more clearer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After many email and phone calls back and forth, Matt approved the final photo. I had soooo much fun working these photos and great conversations on the phone with Matt. He has great pride and love for his family farms and these photos. Some of the barns and building are gone now. One farm house burned down and another is in sad condition. So it's no wonder these photos are a treasure. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am very grateful he found me and asked me to work on his project. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thank you Matt for allowing me to share your photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can do the same for your black & white photo or faded photo or correct color. You can contact me though this blog or my email </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now when I drive in the country and see a farm I think of Matt! </span>Restored Memories \ Lost Ancestorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899397844650527209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664357428239029959.post-6623948670806641392015-01-28T09:58:00.000-05:002015-05-22T09:54:07.040-04:00Some Recent Photos I Have Restored<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's been a while since I posted my work on my blog. I have an actual studio now where </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">folks can bring their photos to me, instead of just email. So I have been very busy getting my studio setup and working. Here are some of my recent projects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thank you Betty, David, Lori and Pam for allowing me to work on and display your photos. I will post my studio information and location on my next blog. I am still taking projects over the internet as well, either through my Facebook page, email....and from here on my blog too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So busy, busy, busy and I love every minute of it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is my sister-in-law Dian's family, her "My Guys" photo. One guy (below) was left out by not being there at the time of the original photo (on the left) shoot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dian knows I love working with photos. She of course asked me to work on this on. Taking her son's picture later and asking me to place him with the others to complete the photo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here is my final. The tools I used on Dales photo is the quick selection tool, refine edges tool and then saved it as a .psd file. Then I placed him in the original photo to join the other guys placing him between Bob and Greg. On </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dale's layer I lowered the opacity so I can see Bob and Greg while still seeing Dale at the same time. I then could erase parts of Dale using a soft edge brush so he is standing behind Bob and Greg. (Sorry Dale, that sounds kind of cruel doesn't it).</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dale's coloring was more lighter and whiter compared to the other guys, so on his layer I used the Levels and Brightness\Saturation adjustment tools to match the rest of the photo. His skin was still too white so I found this skin coloring technic on <a href="http://www.tipsquirrel.com/">TipSquirrel</a> by Janine Smith</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They are such handsome guys. Thank you Dian for letting me work on your project and using it for my blog article.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can also take people out of photos, but that will be another article.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thanks for reading all the way to the end. If you have people to add or omit, please contact me by through this blog or email me at <a href="mailto:restoredmemories2009@yahoo.com">restoredmemories2009@yahoo.com</a> or join me on my Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Restored-Memories-Misplaced-Ancestors-Lost-Ancestors/111072168915314?ref=hl">Restored Memories/Misplaced Ancestors/Lost Ancestors on Facebook</a></span><br />
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Restored Memories \ Lost Ancestorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899397844650527209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664357428239029959.post-24997662920395889572014-12-05T12:06:00.002-05:002015-05-22T09:55:37.029-04:00Her Photo is Stuck to the Glass<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lori came to my studio a few weeks ago with her photo. It is stuck to a piece of glass and damaged by being in water. Removing the photo the ink stuck to the glass, so better to leave it alone. I scanned it for her with the glass and it scanned perfectly, so I knew I can restore and create a great copy for her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She was having fun with her granddaughter that day as you can see. The water damage created these colorful snowflake like spots all over, and especially on her g</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">randdaughter's eye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was able to remove the colored snowflakes. The eye was just a matter of copying her good eye and moving it over and flipping to replace the bad eye and using the warp tool to adjust it the same size and position of her original eye. Then enhancing the colors really made the photo pop. I also enlarged her photo and printed. I print with my Epson Artisan printer using Epson premium photo paper and Epson ink for quality results.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lori was pleased with the results and so am I. Thank you Lori for allowing me to work on your very special photo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can do the same for your photos. Contact me through my blog, email address <a href="mailto:RestoredMemories2009@yahoo.com">RestoredMemories2009@yahoo.com</a> or My Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Restored-Memories-Misplaced-Ancestors-Lost-Ancestors/111072168915314?ref=hl">Restored Memories \ Misplaced Ancestors \ Lost Ancestors</a></span>Restored Memories \ Lost Ancestorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899397844650527209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664357428239029959.post-21029303381151783702014-10-04T00:32:00.000-04:002014-10-04T00:50:39.629-04:00Large Aerial Photographs of a Family Farm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span id="goog_255637564"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had the honor of restoring Cynthia's family farm. Actually aerial photos of her farm. They are large 16 x 20 very faded and dark photos. The same farm in both photos only about 20 or 30 years difference. Both photos were probably black & white originally and I could tell they were hand colorized. I drive by the farm quite often on my way to Collette's Vintage & Antique Mall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My scanner is not big enough to scan these photos in one scan. I called around looking for a professional camera store who might have a very large scanner. Nope.... they just scan in pieces and then used Photoshop's automate > </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">photo-merge tool to piece them together.....Well I can do that and so I did. Easy peasy it was and I had her two very large photos digitized in my computer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now for the hard work. There was a lot to do getting rid of the scratches, and dark dirty patches, and bringing back color to the faded out areas, getting the whole photo as even as possible in light and shadows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The tools I used the most were the patch tool, healing tool and clone tool. Many masking layers to help lighten the dark areas and bring color back in the faded areas. I love the masking tool. Then it took trial and error with the adjustment tools to get the right brightness and colors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I always love the original photos, but sometime if left exposed to light too long they fade. So digital restoration creates a copy to display is the best solution. Store the original in a safe place out of sunlight pulling them out from time to time to show the family. Leave the new restored photos displaying in your rooms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thank you Cynthia for choosing me to restore your treasured photos. It's an amazing farm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can so the same for your photos. Contact me though this blog....or use my email <a href="mailto:restoredmemories2009@yahoo.com">restoredmemories2009@yahoo.com</a>....or my Facebook page</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I whipped out my cell phone to take my picture of this wonderfully colored cloud. (What was life like before cell phones, I can barely remember).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So when I got home I put this in my computer and posted it on my Facebook page. Then I opened up Photoshop and decided to get rid of the man made objects and just have mother nature only in my photo. I tweaked the color more vibrant just a little. The cell phone did not show the amazing yellows and oranges I saw when gazing on this cloud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Zola West asked me to restore her two 4 generation photographs. These photos were taken when Polaroids photos had to have a fixing agent spread across to prevent fading of the black and white photo. If not done properly you can smear the photo as you can see here the same white smear on both of these photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These photos originally are about 2 x 3 inches in size, very faded in many places along with a ton of marks, spots and scratches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The hardest challenges was great grandmother in both photos her face is missing many features and making their skin smooth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I made very high 1200 pixel scans of both photos adjusting the contrast and color during the scan to give me more detail of the pictures to work with. You can see the zillion of spots, scratches and smears much better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My first step was to use the black and white adjustment, I find this works best on photos with no or little color. I tried several tools and technics involving masks and filters but I ended up using mostly the spot, healing and clone tools for most of this. It took a very long time and much patients and after a while they started looking promising. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Not knowing what their true facial features look like, especially great grandma who is seated front and center. I had to ask Zola for another photo of the great grandmother at about the same age. Zola gave me one that I was able to use and was able to place her photo on top of this one and using the masking tool to erase all the parts I didn't want. Then lowered the opacity for that layer so it blended in with her original face. I scrolled though the blend modes to find the one that seems to work the best. I also used the puppet tool to align her features.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The last steps I used levels, color curve, and brightness and contrast adjustment layers. Zola wanted them to be sepia tone and using the photo adjustment seems the best. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They are not perfect but much better. Thank you Zola for giving me the honor of restoring your beloved photos to the best of my abilities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">This is just fun, fun, fun to do. Some tares mended</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">, spots removed, brightening color and it turns out wonderful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;"> Thank you to my gracious client for allowing me to post her photo on my blog and Facebook page. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is Mark, he's my grandson and he's such a handsome guy don't you think? I took this photo and thought it was good except for the red eyes. I am not a photographer by no means, so I let my Photoshop software make up for my lack of photography skills, and it took care of that quite well. With a little improvement here and a little tweaking there... and now his photo is wow! When I retouch photos, I don't mean to alter physically, I just make small improvements. Like remove acne, red eye, whiten teeth and improve brightness and color making the photo pop!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can do the same for your photos. Just contact me through this blog or my email address Restoredmemories2009@yahoo.com</span>Restored Memories \ Lost Ancestorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899397844650527209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664357428239029959.post-15217094208332767542014-02-06T12:17:00.002-05:002014-03-03T16:16:57.556-05:00My Business card<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Restored Memories \ Lost Ancestorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899397844650527209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664357428239029959.post-11312537206815897342014-02-05T21:18:00.003-05:002014-03-03T16:17:32.263-05:00Replace Backgrround<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is always a photo in one's photo albums that has the wrong background. What I love about Photoshop software is taking the subjects out and putting them in front of a new more interesting background.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This wedding photo is too dark. There is a camera flash reflection in the mirror distracting the wedding cake. If you look really close you can see the bride's eyes are closed.</span></div>
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Restored Memories \ Lost Ancestorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899397844650527209noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664357428239029959.post-38766468206283766062014-02-02T21:42:00.000-05:002014-03-03T16:18:00.799-05:00Two New Projects<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;">A friend brought to me 2 tintype photographs of her Great Great Grandparents. Oh they are wonderful. I wish I had photos of my ancestors dating back that far. These photos may be dated somewhere in the 1880's is my guess. Quite good condition for their age.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">I thought this would be easy too but oh no...it was actually the hardest part of this project. I had to go through many many backgrounds to find the right that just makes it the perfect. It has to be the one that makes you go "Oh yea!" at first glance. I did find a few, the tapestry background turned out to be my favorite and hers too.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Now she has them digitalized for safe keeping. It's best to have the original, but you should scan them to make copies. Put them on CD's and pass them to your family. Sharing is a good thing and this way you have copies as backups just in case the original disappears. Digitizing your photos is a very good idea. The only thing that bothers me is will the file name of the person stay with the photo for identification. You can add details to the properties of the file but you don't see it up front. It's still a good idea.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Thank you so much Patti for entrusting in me with your precious photos and the honor of bringing these photos back to life. You have lovely ancestors, enjoy!</span></div>
Restored Memories \ Lost Ancestorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899397844650527209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664357428239029959.post-36207665832201622982012-04-02T22:17:00.002-04:002014-03-03T16:20:16.903-05:00Little Grandma Lillian<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">This photo is a mess. Spots all over, stains here and there, a tear, chips and cracks. Just a messy mess. Good thing there is software to fix these problems. Good thing I love restoring these photos.</span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Adding a touch of color adds something special to these old photos. I usually like to keep the photos as original as possible, but adding a touch of color adds something special to these photos. This project I created in black & white, sepia tone and colorized.</span></span><br />
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Restored Memories \ Lost Ancestorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899397844650527209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664357428239029959.post-83859725464536291132011-07-27T20:17:00.000-04:002011-07-27T20:17:09.667-04:00Ivan Juh, My Great Grandfather<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is my Great Grandfather Ivan Juh. He lived in Croatia and died in WWI. I know very little about him but I do have some fantastic pictures. This is my favorite. His wife died young also during the great flu epidemic leaving my grandmother and her brother orphans at ages 4 and 6.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In my early days of genealogy research I had no computer, didn't know how to use a computer and certainly didn't have a scanner. My husband loves film cameras and he took excellent photos of photos. When I visit relatives and talk about family history. Most people are very reluctant to let me borrow photos to have them copied. I visited two elderly cousins who just would not let me copy them and they were too disabled to get copies for me. So my husband captured photos with his film camera. They were pleased, I was pleased and we had a great visit. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Film cameras still have much better quality than digital. </span></span></span><span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The photo on the left was captured by a high quality film camera. After scanning it into my computer with high pixels I have a very good image to work with. This photo is dirty and somewhat faded. Doing a lot of spot and stain removal, using my 'Burn' tool to help with the faded parts, using levels tool to give it better color, contrast and brightness. My Great Grandfather is very grand posing with a very nice background.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now I just have to find time to add this photo to my large collage photo frame that I purchased about 3 years ago to put all my ancestors in. The frame still hangs on my office wall waiting for me to add my family.....</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you have a photo you would like spruced up and looking cheerier. Please contact me. I have very reasonable rates. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Thank you for taking some time to read this little story of mine. Cheers!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span>Restored Memories \ Lost Ancestorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899397844650527209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664357428239029959.post-63879110139397122092011-07-22T20:29:00.003-04:002014-03-03T17:07:55.236-05:00Turning Ordinary into Extraordinary<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;"> brother-in-law (aka B.I.L.). Taking an ordinary snapshot picture and turning it into an extraordinary portrait. Very simple, doesn't take long and not much effort and you get results that's very pleasing to the eyes. A little cut out here and a little paste on a new back ground there. The hardest part of this project is finding the right background to use. Either you find a photo for a background, maybe alter it a little or a lot, or you create your very own background from scratch. This always takes me a long time to decide. I tried both until I get that 'WOW' inside my head. Then that's the one.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This next project was more of a challenge and very fun. Taking an ordinary photo and being extraordinary creative. Lots of people had their photos turned into magazine covers. This is actually my very first attempt. Totally all from scratch, no borrowing from something. Again cut out and put on a new background and add text for a magazine look. I am pleased and so was my favorite B.I.L.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The man in these photos is my B.I.L.'s youngest brother who is no longer with us. My B.I.L. talks about his brother frequently and has Tom's photos displayed in his home and office. These will be added to the collection I am sure. </span></span><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Photographs keeps him with us just like he was still here today.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;"> Tom is very much loved and missed by his family. Rest in Peace Tom.</span></span></span>Restored Memories \ Lost Ancestorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899397844650527209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664357428239029959.post-2343893532935743142011-07-09T18:03:00.039-04:002014-03-03T17:09:16.762-05:00A Special Collage Project Leads to a Very Special Find<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This collage was fun to make and lead me to a surprising and successful search. The photos didn't have very much damaged. The usual spots, scratches and every once in a while you get a photo with film distortion like the white patches in this photo below.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To make the photo a little more interesting I added color to the child's clothes. Since this is a collage about my husband as a child. Colorizing only his clothes in all the photos I wanted to bring the attention to him. Wasn't he a little cutie? Or as my friend Martha would say "Isn't he a Cuuutie Pie?"</span></span><br />
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child a little monkey doll he called Joe Mindy after a famous monkey at the
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this monkey doll in antique stores. Well I didn't know what this monkey
looked like.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> This photo shows Joe Mindy.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> After much work on this picture and thinking (I do a lot of
thinking working on pictures). I am going to ask my antique selling
friends at the The Vintage Village.com </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://thevintagevillage.com/">http://thevintagevillage.com/</a></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
They gave me very good advice and I found a monkey doll on eBay. Viewing the 2 photos side by side, this is definitely Ron's monkey. Upon discovering it's a Monko Monkey, this lead to a better eBay and Google
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is a treasured photograph of my father and his brother. This is my only photo of my dad this young so it's very dear to me. Someone scribbled pencil markings all over him. Maybe it was my uncle who doesn't have a pencil mark on him at all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well I took away the scribbles, scratches, spots and stains, but I didn't take away the pout-y look on my uncle. Some expressions should remain the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is one of my earlier attempts of restoring photographs. This photo wasn't very difficult or challenging. It most defiantly encouraged me that this is something I wanted to pursue and love to do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The background is just not interesting enough to save. So concentrating on the Aunt, I had in mind to replace the back ground for a nice studio type portrait. Now in the original photo her hair looks to be a large afro hair do. But zooming in and confirmation from the niece who is owner of this photo. Her hair is not as large as it appears from this view.There is a shadow behind her head. So I had to guess pretty much the hair outline.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Using mainly cloning, spot healing and healing brushes tools. Cropping, layer coping, moving, aligning, color adjusting on the Aunt. The hardest part was choosing the right color back ground.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> By using color selector and clouds filter for the background colors and cloud effect. Then a process using the select and feather tools for the blending effect. Then the layer adjustment tool for the shadowing effect did the background effect come to life and tada..... the photo is finished.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span>Restored Memories \ Lost Ancestorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899397844650527209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664357428239029959.post-66053553359821705322011-02-05T12:19:00.002-05:002014-03-03T16:39:55.274-05:00Can you see what's missing?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In my earlier blog I wrote about my cousin Laura's photography. Here is another great picture by her. Can you tell what's missing? The snowman and the lighting in the park made this such a cool picture, but those ugly bundles in the background just had to go. I couldn't resist removing the big bundles. (Oh my aching back!). No actually, just sitting on my butt in front of the computer, using my Photoshop Elements software the selection, copy, move, erase, duplicate, spot healing tools did the job, not my back.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This snowman is in Hagerstown City Park, Hagerstown Maryland. </span></span></span>Restored Memories \ Lost Ancestorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899397844650527209noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664357428239029959.post-9211786997426469602011-01-12T21:37:00.000-05:002011-02-05T11:47:53.911-05:00Personalized Framing - My Latest Project<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM7qpASv1sRNnyptsu7vREUcvhaDMynB0KMe715fJgfKIWBvCbYkH2RzVGN2oUIQWj0vedmA-X3JMOcmQj4JFdjcgJj2TxQiaifC-EGdiQxL8ARBFZ4NpSyeoKRxqAxPulbVRuQ7KFLPU/s1600/Bob+and+Pam+Mullen+2010+letter+framed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM7qpASv1sRNnyptsu7vREUcvhaDMynB0KMe715fJgfKIWBvCbYkH2RzVGN2oUIQWj0vedmA-X3JMOcmQj4JFdjcgJj2TxQiaifC-EGdiQxL8ARBFZ4NpSyeoKRxqAxPulbVRuQ7KFLPU/s200/Bob+and+Pam+Mullen+2010+letter+framed.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />
<div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;"> </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Here is a fun project I did for my wonderful neighbor and friends. I was asked to take a group of family portraits while the whole family was together over Christmas. I've never done a project like this before</span>. </span></span></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The photos were actually fairly easy to take using a good quality digital camera and an tripod. I didn't worry about how much of a back ground I took or how centered. I just made sure I had everyone in the photo with room to do some cropping in my Photoshop Elements program. </span></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-CXB3pQ3I7klfHEAQPqthhnXEHRIETXcM90VKYMoAemD2IR2a9y_86sJgVepPtGO-wJx9YZNPXLU5ZRDSn-tU_KczPIJJK9kG6ZvUydiMgcAKoraW5qLjEt50lws9lMCq3oa1z71MflU/s1600/The+Mullen+Family+2010+letter+framed+GREEN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-CXB3pQ3I7klfHEAQPqthhnXEHRIETXcM90VKYMoAemD2IR2a9y_86sJgVepPtGO-wJx9YZNPXLU5ZRDSn-tU_KczPIJJK9kG6ZvUydiMgcAKoraW5qLjEt50lws9lMCq3oa1z71MflU/s200/The+Mullen+Family+2010+letter+framed+GREEN.jpg" width="200" /></a></span><span style="font-size: small;">Took several pictures of each group or pose to be sure I get the best shot. Everyone smiling with their eyes open and faceing forward. Not that I could not have corrected these, but luckely for each group I did get a good photo without changing faces or bodies parts.</span></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Crop, lighten, adjust contrast, add clarity and the photos came to life. Took out the flash glare on the eye glasses and the flash shine on some of the faces. Looks very much like a professional photographer took these photos. Making more fun out of it, I created these personalized name frames. Then adding it and creating a collage. </span></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwViKunjKsjI7mxN_RU3cRqzsajm0A_FkJ3qjYQI6ApDqCg8MR3rq52bmgfo-lAdlAB2iRqWOO-ASqFsQuTC2cGMPmfuQ5J_kcbvQGFDU2Hj4mKwjxYlJ4IIQrVOKNpc8gW8irIW_KCu8/s1600/The+Mullen+Family+2010+letter+framed+purple.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwViKunjKsjI7mxN_RU3cRqzsajm0A_FkJ3qjYQI6ApDqCg8MR3rq52bmgfo-lAdlAB2iRqWOO-ASqFsQuTC2cGMPmfuQ5J_kcbvQGFDU2Hj4mKwjxYlJ4IIQrVOKNpc8gW8irIW_KCu8/s200/The+Mullen+Family+2010+letter+framed+purple.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: small;">My neighbors have a wonderful family. Very generous, loving close family. I can tell not only buy living next door but taking these photos, talking to them, how they pose so close together. We've been neighbors for many years I am greatly honored to be asked to do this project for them. It was special to me and to them too. Bob and Pam, when you are ready for your next group photos, just call me over!</span></div><div style="color: #38761d;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #b45f06; text-align: center;"></div>Restored Memories \ Lost Ancestorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899397844650527209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664357428239029959.post-31677195901718432912010-11-23T09:08:00.001-05:002011-02-05T11:47:53.911-05:00Before and after of a very dirty photo<div style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This Etsy customer honored me with this project. She has this very dirty and grainy photograph of her great great great grandparents. The photo was scanned at very low resolution. She rescanned it better but still low resolutions 96 dpi. So I had this to work with. </div><div style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I could remove of the dirty spots. I remove some of the grainy spots but I decided not to remove them all. It's in their faces and clothing too. To remove all the spots would lose detail to her ancestors. To remove from the back ground would make her ancestors look even more grainier. I could clear their faces leaving their facial details. Then repaired the woman's shoulder, sharpen and adjust the contrast. <span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Gave it a sepia tone look. It's much cleaner still leaving the old fashion look. She was very pleased with the results.</span></div><div style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Restored Memories \ Lost Ancestorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899397844650527209noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664357428239029959.post-36321968882641620402010-10-14T11:01:00.002-04:002014-03-03T17:09:32.360-05:00Fun day collage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is a collage I created for my Dad's birthday outing at the ball game. We had a great time, the Tigers won, and best of all they had fireworks in honor of my Dad's birthday. Imagine that! I can create for you a collage similar to this one. Any theme you wish.<br />
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