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This photo is in sad shape. First we'll see if we can
repair the area of the photo that has been torn off, then
we'll tackle the discolored area that runs from the sky down
through one of the main subjects of the picture.
Using the Clone Brush, I filled in the areas in the
driveway and
grass that had been torn out. I used various brush sizes,
from 12, to clone the larger areas, down to a 3 for detailed
areas around the tire. To make textures and colors look as
natural as possible I only cloned small areas at a time,
selecting new source areas often. This was especially
important around the car tire where I used bits of the
car to match the tire color. You may have to apply a zoom of
2:1 to work on detailed areas.
Since the discolored area needed more than a simple clone
brush to repair it, I started by selecting the area with
the lasso tool. I used the Smart Edge setting,
Feather set to 0, and Antialias checked.
The first thing I needed to do to the area was try to bring the color closer to that of the rest of the photo. I tried several adjustments, discarding all and finally settling on adjusting the Brightness to -11 (minus 11) and the Contrast to 17.
I then used the Retouch Tool, Soften mode to smooth the sky out, finishing it off by retouching the darker areas with the clone brush, bringing lighter areas over the dark spots.
The Clone Brush was used to put a touch-up on the sections of the background building and the mans pants that were showing an odd white coloring.
A Gamma correction of .64, .68, .72 increased the spectrum
range, adding more detail to the image, and a Sharpen More
put the final focus on the image.
To finish the image off I added an edging by applying a Mask
that I had saved to disk. As soon as the mask was applied
I clicked on Masks | Delete on the menu bar. When asked if
I wanted to merge the mask with the current image I said yes.
Without making a selection, two drop shadows were then added,
one with a horizontal and vertical setting of 5 and one with
a horizontal and vertical setting of minus 5.
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