Silvia. Circa 1942
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Original hand colored photo.
A 2nd original photo was cut up for a collage. I converted to a b+w image & then added color using a smart color filter
Combining the two images in photoshop using the uniform from the first image and the face from the second image
Original 100 year old photo from a family collage.
The hardest part of color restoration is creating realistic flesh tones. After converting to a black+white image I apply photoshop's smart color filter. This gets me close. The rest of the work is hand painted in photoshop and hand cloned.
Original 80 year old black+white damaged wedding photo.
Retouched & colorized in photoshop using multiple techniques. Including cloning, smart color filters, hand painting, noise reduction,
new exposure and sharpening.