The latest project in Digital Arts was to use Adobe Photoshop to restore an EXTREMELY damaged photo. Finding a photo was somewhat of a challenge, so I did my own damage. A photo on the ‘net really struck me – it’s a rather famous piece from artist Sally Mann, done in 1989.
I cropped it to 4 x 6, then printed it in high quality. Then I mangled it (sorry, Sally) to get an interesting photo that I could restore. I then re-scanned the pieces at 600 dpi and got to work.
Obviously the restore is not perfect, as you can see from the original. Scanning the pieces caused slight differences in the shading, and working at the “pixel level” was a challenge, but I enjoyed the work. I think it turned out fairly well, but certainly could not pass as an authentic replica of the original.
