Restoring a Family Pet Image
While at Suzanne’s hubby’s birthday party she showed me a picture of their dog, Zoso. This picture was their only picture of him as a puppy. It had been printed on regular copy paper and had a lot of water damage. As she showed me the picture she said, “is there any way you might be able to restore the image”? I seriously had my doubts but decided to give it a try. She had seen the vintage restoration that I did a few weeks ago and she had more faith in me than I did.
First I scanned the original as a PDF. Then brought it into Lightroom and did the basic enhancements; bumping darks and balancing whites along with sharpening. Then it was opened in Photoshop so that I could use the various Healing Brush Tools; Patch, Regular Healing and Spot Healing. Then used the Burn Tool to redefine some areas. It was fun using the Healing Brush to build up the puppies hind end. Then the image went back into Lightroom for final touches including a Vignette. Fun project that only took about 2 hours with much better results than I anticipated. Suzanne was pleasantly surprised.
