Parents Photo Retouch

I scanned in an old 8×10 photo of my parents when they were dating. It was in need of major restoration.

For this project, I used:
Photoshop, HP Officejet 6500 all-in-one device to scan, iMac, and Huion drawing tablet.  I could not have completed this project without the drawing tablet.

In Photoshop, I created restoration layers and went to work. On the general areas that did not have person to repair, I used the spot healing brush and clone stamp to fix the damaged areas. Along the border of the photo, I matched the color and used the paint brush to do the repairs.

Repairing the image where a person was involved was one of the time consuming part.  I had to use the paint tool and the clone stamp tool to repair my parents images and the images of the people in the background.

Surprisingly, the hardest part to repair and retain the integrity of the image was that drawing that is on the wall below the words “STONE CLUB”! I basically painted that back in on a separate layer and apply “noise” to get it to match the original.

This is the only image I had of my parents before they were married. So, I treated this project as if I were doing it for a paid client. This project took me a total of nine (9) hours, over a two day period, to complete. I could have gone the time saving route and just basically cloned out the background, but that would not been a true restoration.

Before and After