this is pretty much my first attempt at photo manipulation and photo repair but i suppose i did an ok job, the left hand side version is the original photograph of my Great Grandmother and the right hand side version is my re-touched version. i added color too the image and sharpened it up and even repaired some tears. i suppose the finishing result kind of looks like a digital portrait. please bare in mind i never knew my great grandmother so all the colors, including the eyes, hair, clothes and the room it's self come from my imagination and how i see her and her house ^_^ i used Photoshop to create this piece, and the main tools that i used were the clone stamp tool, color replacement tool and lens blur and smart sharpen and alot of lighting adjustment haha. anyways it took almost 3 hours to create and i am quite happy with the result, i hope you guys like it too! and until today i thought that coloring in a black and white photo was impossible, lol sorry to rant on like this, just let me know what you guys think and i would love to here some advice on how to improve it thanks for listening, if you would like too see more from me feel free to view my deviantart account at http://insanity-99.deviantart.com/ ^_^
I think you did a pretty good job actually, I always though bringing color into old photos was a pretty cool idea. nice work, look good.
