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Repairing Torn Photos

Morgan Wedding 1

This torn photo was brought to me to repair.  After scanning the image on a flatbed scanner, I went to work with the CLONE tool in Photoshop 4.0 LE. The CLONE tool takes pixels from one area in the photo and moves them to another.

It was a simple matter to take pixels from "untorn" areas of the floor and walls and move them to cover the torn areas..

Morgan Wedding 2

Before

After

Other areas were more complicated and required more time and skill.  The head, clothing, and lace required a much finer BRUSH size (still using the CLONE tool) to repair the clothes, the lacy material, and the torn ear and hair.

Morgan Wedding 3

The corrected photo.

Torn Photos 2

June 25, 2000

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