Scans - Originals

Scans
ALL ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHY & ARTWORK IS COPYRIGHT © THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS AND ACKNOWLEDGED
These are larger thumbs of the original scans showing where work has been done to clean them up so they appear as on the main page of scans.

Angelina Jolie | Keira Knightley | Rachel Weisz

Angelina Jolie

Vanity Fair : 200807

Keeping texture in the shadows was awkward, but otherwise this was easy.
Vanity Fair : 200807

Brilliant text over a noisy fur background was a bit tricky.
Studio : 200706

A 3-page spread that only needed the folds corrected.
Studio : 200706

Some more red letters on her throat and shoulder.
Studio : 200706

Some red letters on a black background.
Studio : 200706

Harder than it looked due to badly feathered edges that didn't match the original background, with discoloured hair, and I had to guess at how much of her back was exposed near her waist.
Vogue : 200701

Thin lettering that was easy to remove.
Vogue : 200701

Only a handful of small words.
St John : 2006

3-10px gap and mis-matches in the shadows and mid-tones.
Eve : 200605

Fiddly messing around with blurred strands of hair.
DT : 200605

A jagged gap of 4-20px that went over some complex highlights and patterns.
DT : 200605

I wish they were all this simple. Well, probably not, otherwise I'd never learn anything!
DT : 200605

1-8px gap and minor hue mis-matches.
Vanity Fair : 200603

Just minor text in various places.
GQ : 200507

Some wood grain replaced, otherwise fairly simple.
GQ : 200507

Stray hairs over a coloured block, and shading over the text.
Fabric : 200506

10px gap and minor hue mis-matches.
Film Review : 200412

The bar-code and advert bubbles were covered with a scaled-up copy of a much smaller image-scan of the same photo from another magazine, and the background was replaced with another smaller (and heavily compressed ) version of the image that also reinstated most of the stray hairs that had been cut off, with both being colour/contrast/lightness corrected and hue-shifted to fit, and compression artifacts removed.
Allure : 200411

Letters replaced with a gradient, and blended.
Allure : 200411

2-4px gap and word-removal over a patchy background.
Hotdog : 200406

Another background replacement with some repair work on her arm, but the moire patterns were as printed rather than caused by the scanning, and the outline of her hair was very solid.
Empire : 200406

Simple background replacement and word removal.
Empire : 200406

As with GQ : 200309, a nice image ruined with garish print. Some of it was easy, but replacing the mesh and its varying shadows makes this the hardest one I've done so far.
GQ : 200404

Apart from replacing the panel moulding beneath the i's dot, this was straightforward.
GQ : 200404

Full background replacement and reconstruction of the shadow.
Vogue : 200403

The first double-pager where the images actually overlapped and were aligned perfectly; the high & mid-tones were also exposed similarly, though the shadows needed slight adjustment.
Marie Claire : 200401

2px gap & hue correction between pages.
Marie Claire : 200401

12px gap and new shadows over two gradients (each side was different top-to-bottom), and a lot of print smear clean-up beside and beneath her chin.
Cosmopolitan : 200309

Major surgery on the calf and knee due to a 20px gap, not helped by hue mis-matches.
GQ : 200309

Not as tricky as it might have been due to the dress-edges being almost straight.
GQ : 200309

Some very simple, the rest extremely time-consuming recreating individual hairs.
GQ : 200309

The first attempt was a full background replacement with two overlapping gradients, but matching the grain was a problem; this uses the original shading, though there is a lot of dark noise in the upper right corner. See also Empire : 200406 for a similar image.
B : 200309

Just a few words removed.
Total Film : 200309

Her hair was badly removed by the publishers to accommodate an unnecessary border, and was redrawn to suit what was left.
Metro Life : 20030815

Horrendous purple title across her forehead, hair that fizzled out at the edges, and the texture of her skin beneath the 'O', made this particularly awkward.
Ice : 200211

1¼ page join (which actually matched), and minimal removal.
Ice : 200211

1¼ page join (which actually matched), and minimal removal.

Keira Knightley

Vogue : 200605

Perfect alignment with only some hue-shifting on the carpet and thin lettering.
Marie Claire : 200510

Perfectly matched across an overlapping join, so just a few pixels needed cloning.
Elle : 200510

Extreme hue shifts across join with 3-5px gaps.
Marie Claire : 200510

'Unstuck photo' effect corrected.
DT : 200509

An almost perfect join with separate text.
Room Service : 200509

A lot of guesswork for what was behind the red block of text, and some cleaning-up of cloned tiles.
Room Service : 200509

Just a gap of a few pixels; colour-match was OK across the page-break.
DT : 200509

Virtually the same as the Arena 200408fg below, but in colour, and with a variable gap of 2-7 pixels.
FHM : 200506

Block of text removed and skin recreated, ring replaced from another version of the image. (Why was it taken out in the first place?!)
Arena : 200408

5-10px gap and hue mis-match.
Arena : 200408

Hue mis-match, some small misc text, and a large yellow block covered with cloned rug & shaded.

Rachel Weisz

Harper's Bazaar : 200908

Small amount of plain text over complicated join of floorboards.
Harper's Bazaar : 200908

Small amount of plain text in upper right over blurred background.
Vogue : 200702

A join that actually overlapped perfectly, and fairly simple text removal.
Marie Claire : 200604

2-4px join and two partially encroaching images on each side.
GQ : 200502

Fairly simple text removal.

Jessica Alba

GQ : 200708

Large text covered with scaled copy of smaller image, then texture-matched / colour-corrected & blended; smaller text & yellow box removed..
GQ : 200708

Large text covered with scaled copy of smaller image, then texture-matched / colour-corrected & blended; smaller text & yellow box removed.
GQ : 200708

Large text covered with scaled copy of smaller image, then texture-matched / colour-corrected & blended; smaller text & yellow box removed.
Elle : 200611

10px gap and very uneven background shading.
Empire : 200508

Ragged gap of up to 20px.
Arena : 200508

2-12px gap and hue mis-matches.
Arena : 200508

Simple text removal.
Arena : 200508

Thin text removal.