Retouching an old wrinkled photo
And now for something completely different…
I was handed this old photo to retouch. It’s probably 30 years old.
As you can see it’s in really bad shape, but what you can’t see is that it’s really tiny, it’s 5,0×3,5cm.
What a challenge! – I thought.
So here’s the 5 hour editing process that took me to retouch the whole thing.
First stop, I removed the left eye and forehead wrinkles.
Next, I removed the mouth, chin and chest wrinkles.
On the next stop, I removed all the wrinkles from the eyes. This part was tricky, but i pulled it off.
Next, I decided to take a break from the though stuff and removed all the easy wrinkles from the background and body.
Here’s the really though part. The nose is pretty messed up and the left cheek is in bad shape too. It took me a lot of patience and calm to try to make the nose look normal. Here’s the result.
Next, I converted the image to black and white, but left a bit of the old sepia worn out feel to it.
Now, here’s the bonus: I decided to give it color and this is what I managed to accomplish with a little hard work.
This is it!
