My dear old friend Mabel is gone but her memory will always be with me. Her daughter Holly sent me this old picture from 1938 to "fix up". I fell in love with the image. What is she thinking? She looks so pensive. We'll never know but we do know she has a wonderful and fulfilling life ahead of her. As with all these old pictures, the memories they bring back make them priceless and so worthwhile restoring. Never throw one away until at least you scan it and save it digitally. The nice part of this restoration is that the face escaped the cracking and wrinkling so the restoration job was easier. I'm slow at it so it still took me about 10 hours to complete.
Side-by-side you can see what needed to be done to bring this priceless image back and brighten it up. I tried to maintain the delicate softness and period look. Click on it to enlarge it.
.
.
.
No comments:
Post a Comment