Comments on: Photo restoration without taking short cuts

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:02:40 +0000

Yes this is another way around the problem when you have absolutely nothing to go on. It’s actually very rare. When there are such large areas to cover, say when removing one person out of a photo when there is only two to start with, a more sensible option would be to crop the photo, as the empty portion would not be needed anyway.

By: John

John — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:50:21 +0000

One niggling thought is what to do if you really don’t have anything to go on to replace the chasm left by the figures. Cloning the surroundings, nomatter how well it’s done, still ends up repeating the background. If you’re looking at a complex background do you ever consider sampling areas of texture from other photographs?

By: Neil Rhodes

Neil Rhodes — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:05:00 +0000

Many thanks for your comments, this was a photo restoration from Middlesex UK, I would put this into the category of “removing people from a photo” which is quite a popular request!

By: Mchilly

Mchilly — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:27:26 +0000

Nice and simple tutorial…great work