I cheated of course ;-) Basically I mirrored the exposed part of the face and placed it over the obstructed side. This is how I did it.
- Using the measure tool draw a line through the centre of the tigers face. Then Image>Rotate Canvas>Arbitrary, to align the centre of the face to the horizontal or vertical. - Create a copy of the background layer, then flip it. Edit>Transform>Flip Horizontal (or vertical, depending on which way you rotated the image) - Adjust the opacity so you can see the original underlying layer, and then move it around until things line up. Reset the opacity to 100% - Rotate it back to it's original orientation. Image>Rotate Canvas>Arbitrary (it will remember the previous measurement) - Use layer masks & the paint brush tool to blend the 2 layers together. -Crop. - Clone out the catch light in it's right eye, and clone in the one from it's left. - Create a new layer over all the others and fill with a black to white gradient going from the bottom left to the top right & change it's blend mode to soft light. This is to help reintroduce some of the shadow in the bottom LH corner I've used this technique many times to restore old damaged family photos. Cheers, Dave On 10/19/06, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, there y'go. You're clearly a lot better than I at making such > repairs. I'd have probably struggled for hours on that. How'd you do it > so well and so quickly? > > Shel > > > > > [Original Message] > > From: David Savage > > > To do a really good job takes more time, but I managed this...: > > > > <http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/Images/sfzoo_0248_std%5b1%5d.jpg> > > > > ...in 10-15 during my lunch break at work today. With more time & > > effort the lighting in the "repaired" area could be improved. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
