Magazine Scans

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Angelina Jolie : Cosmopolitan 200309

Major repair on missing leg, minor noise cleaning, colour balancing.

Angelina Jolie : DT 200309

The stitching was cloned and manually adjusted, the folded cloth done by trial and error.

Angelina Jolie : Empire 200309

An early piece, doing the mesh and shadows took ages, so by the time I came to the stocking top I did what looked nice rather than was true, but without seeing the original it's good enough, and giving a slight tint seemed rather pointless.

Angelina Jolie : Eve 200605

Not completely accurate but the important thing is that it looks all right on its own.

Angelina Jolie : Film Review 200412

Creating the folded cloth was just a matter of following existing curves, but the background was a mess : I had to use a smaller version from another image and rely on the bokeh scaling smoothly, which it did apart from all the loose strands of her hair, which had to have surrounding artifacts cleaned.

Angelina Jolie : GQ 200309

This wasn't particularly difficult, just incredibly time-consuming.

Angelina Jolie : Hotdog 200406

The arm repair wasn't too hard, but rather than mess around trying to remove everything that surrounded her, I just cut her out and completely replaced the background, adding some subtle noise so the colour wasn't solid. I should have centred her, too.

Angelina Jolie : Marie Claire 200401

Completely new background of two separate gradients (one for each side), overlaid with a small amount of noise, then soft shadows were recreated.

Angelina Jolie : Metro Life 20030815

An early piece that really needs some tidying up, but it's not too bad.

Angelina Jolie : Studio 200706

Another background replacement, and some projections of folded cloth; the amount of flash revealed on her back was just a guess based on where the dress went.

Jessica Alba : DT 200509

The missing shadow isn't quite right as can be seen from an a/b comparison, but I thought it looked better as it would be denser as her elbow neared to the wall.

Keira Knightley : DT 200509

Replaced with a clone then manually brushed and changed to make it different. A similar b/w image was treated in the same manner.

Keira Knightley : Elle 200510

Filling in the small gap was simple, but getting the correct hue shift and colour balance took a long time.

Keira Knightley : Empire 200408

A join that wasn't so much difficult as very time-consuming, repeating the pattern without using easy-to-find clones.

Keira Knightley : Room Service 200509

Nowhere near as good as it should have been, and all I did was extend existing details to fill in the gap where the RS title block was removed.

Rachel Weisz : Esquire 201002

Inconsistent colour tones across the join, but there was a small overlap to help.

Rachel Weisz : Vogue 200702

A perfect join where the image has overlaps on both sides, so removing the text was nice and simple.

My Photographs

Pallais De Chaillot

Removing pesky tourists.

Musee De La Mode

I decided to darken the pillar's base so it better matched the others.

Work For Other People

Clacton Air Show 200708

Just copied an existing plane and centred the formation, but the original image was a grainy jpg taken on an overcast day with a low-range camera, so this wasn't very good at all.