Restoration to it's finest

Before

After

This project was very fun and exciting. I always liked how people restored photos but I never knew how they did them. Once I got the hang of photoshop, it became very easy. The trickiest part of the project was zooming in and finding all of the little holes and smudges that should be photoshoped. 

I used tools on photoshop such as lasso, brush, spot healing brush and stamp. Each of these tools allowed me to alter the picture to make it look original. One of the things I struggled with a lot was the green part by her head. I have no idea what that is or if it should be altered. Other than that, the project was a blast and now I can alter my own photos from decades ago.

Feels like you're looking at the same thing, right?

For this project, I had to remake a page from an April 2011 Esquire issue. We didn't have to find the same exact photos as in the original document, but we had to find something as close as possible to the images. Some of the strokes I couldn't find on InDesign, but this is what I came up with.

The hardest part of the project was paying attention to all of the little details. For example, I had to separate the text from the images and the borders at an exact length. Also, It was really hard to find images that remotely resemble the original photos. Once they were found, tweaking them to look like the originals was a task not easily done.