Photo Restoration, Graphic Design and Photography by Marshall P. Reyher

Nature photography turned into a watercolor photo-to-painting.

This is a photo restoration project I recently did for a client from Orangeburg, New York (Rockland County). His Father served on this ship during World War II, so he wanted it restored before it deteriorated any more. I got rid of the tears, rips and holes, added a new textured background and formatted it as a 16×20″ print, ready for framing.

Original (top) and digitally-restored portrait of a woman in fur coat.

Original scan of Babe Ruth’s portrait.

Here is a portrait of Babe Ruth that I digitally-restored. The original scan (above) is lacking in contrast and color. To retouch this file, I did the following: cleaned up the dust and scratches with the clone stamp; chose the cleanest color channel (from Red, Green and Blue) and discarded the others while converting to grayscale; added contrast; converted back into RGB color mode; and applied a sepia tone filter to the image.

Retouched portrait of Babe Ruth.

11×14 inch print-ready file of Babe Ruth’s Portrait.

This is a small chapel – I think – at St. Anthony’s Catholic Cemetery on West Nyack Road in Nanuet, New York. I took three exposures of this scene, as I was intending to create a HDR image. Instead, I decided to do something a little different. To make the above image, I did the following: traced around the chapel rocks to isolate the chapel; turned background into black & white and applied water color filter; finally, I applied the posterize filter to the chapel.