Background Information:

This photo was taken when I was very young with my grandpa who passed away 14 years ago. It has always been too dark, and it got damaged with ink splotches. Because of these problems, I always thought this photo was ruined.

Design:

• First, I adjusted the colors of the photo to help lighten the photo

• I used the spot healing brush to get a lot the ink splotches out

• Areas like the ear and the lace, I used the clone stamp tool to get rid of the ink splotches

Skills Used:

• Photo Adjustments in Adobe Camera Raw and in Adobe Photoshop to lighten the picture

• Spot healing brush tool to remove most of the ink splotches

• Clone Stamp Tool for small areas where the spot healing brush was too detailed and couldn’t fix the spots

Credits:

• Photo Credit: Patricia Coop

Revisions:

• I added a left arm that was missing because the original photo was old and overexposed

• I cut the background out using a mask

• I added a background

• Then I burned the edges to make a vignette so you can focus on the baby (me) better