Before the War

For this assignment, I had to edit an old, ripped photo and restore it to its original quality. In my opinion, this assignment was very fun and I felt extremely productive while doing it. I selected this photo because it appealed more to me and I felt that it would be easier to fix than the other one. It ended up being super easy and I think that this picture looks pretty great now! The most challenging part was trying to fix the top left corner to make it look like it was never ripped. I basically had to create a part of the picture that was not there in the first place so it took a lot of use from the stamping tool. The easiest part of the editing process was fixing things like the bushes and the man's coat. These areas had very basic colors and took almost no time to repair the tears in the picture. Before this assignment, I had not used a photo retouching program before because I never really had a reason to, but I felt that this process went very well! I probably would not want to restore and retouch photos as a job or part of a job because it would get very tedious and annoying after a long time. Although art and everything is very interesting, the line has to be drawn somewhere.