Tribute - My friend's Dad [photo restoration] by mmitchell_houston
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
This project is a sad one, but it does have a slightly humorous twist at the end.
A few days ago I received an e-mail from a friend. She had the sad news to tell me that her father was terminally ill and would probably pass away within the next two weeks. As the oldest child, she was responsible for making many of the final arrangements. One of them was to provide a

Comments (5)
awesome work! i looked at it for a while and am impressed!! LOL same thing happened to me at wall mart .. they said you cannot recopy pictures of postcards !! LOL .,.. i said hey i just shot those this weekend with my nikon pocket cam hehe had to get the manager to approve by showing him the images in my dig cam . so nice of you to do that ~!
excellent post work. I enjoying manipulating fotos very much
Having cut out pictures for a few friends over the years, I know what a time consuming production this can be. From the photo you had to work with you did an amazing job re-construting this portrait to get the final results. Great labor of love you did on this....Aloha!
Very patient in your work. Excellent remake. I think the loss of stripes on the shirt caught my eye but it was not the main object. Excellent work!
Youve got a good eye, amigo! The stripes were a definite problem in this image (I actually wrote about it in my description, but had to cut it for length because the new code here limits the size of the description). I did lose one or two stripes, but that was an odd shirt. They only ran along the part that buttons, and then another pair runs vertically along the outer edges of the torso (parallel to the suspenders). I considered redrawing the stripes, but decided it would take too long and, in the end, wouldnt really add anything to the final photo.