Justin Fannin

Our 98-year-old friend Mildred proudly showed us a 5" x 7"photo of her father standing with his pupils outside his schoolhouse in southwest Virginia around 1900. Details were a bit hard to make out. (I'm posting only small images here because the photos are not my own, but you'll get the idea.)

Having recently started using Affinity Photo, I was looking for a project to test it. So I asked if I could borrow the photo in hopes of making it more presentable.
For those who haven't done this sort of thing but would like to try, here's a brief summary of tools used.:
1.) duplicate the photo and work only on the duplicate
2.) crop to remove bad edges 
3.) convert to B&W
4.) levels adjustment to improve brightness and contrast overall
5.) inpainting brush tool to repair creases, remove most of the tree on the left as it added little to the photo, smooth the badly mottled sky, and fix damage or distracting details in dirt in front of children
6.) clone brush tool to fill in part of the schoolhouse and to fill breaks in the branches of trees on the right
7.) quick masks to make selections over the several long faded streaks (water damage?) across various parts of the photo
8.) levels and/or brightness adjustments to adjust the selected washed out streaks
9.) copy, flip, then paste the teachers left eye where the right eye was badly damaged. (I am definitely not an artist who could draw details into the badly damaged face)
10.) make final adjustments using brightness, levels, and/or curves on entire image
11.) frame text tool to insert caption for the scene in foreground (not shown)
Most of this was done non-destructively by painting on a new pixel layer with the clone brush or inpainting brush set to sample layers below. I'd do it a lot more systematically and non-destructively now that I've had several months of practice using Affinity Photo and have watched many more videos both from Affinity and from several other sources.
The end result was a B&W 5" x 7" photo framed on a table top.

Hardly anything is more enjoyable than fixing an old photo for a friend.

This didn't go quite to plan. I was thinking of something fun to do for Sunday and remembered the mixed lego figures, for example Wolverine's body and Homer's head to create Homerine. So I though create multiple figures in one document then you can pick any head and any body. But with me being so slow I only just about finished one figure and even that could do with some more work. But I thought I'd post it and will try and add others (and properly finish this one). 
It's also quite a good type of subject to try if you want to do realistic without tons of work as it's pretty simple and there are no texture.
 

My first try on creating a (semi-)realistic vector-headset. I traced a JBL-headset and made it wireless. The concept of an 'auto-pausing headset' has been going through my mind for a long time: I'd love it when something like that would exist!
Really looking forward to your feedback!
Also on the composition, I'm having trouble putting it all together.

(oh, and apologies in advance for the cheesy marketing-lingo, it's basically just filler...)

Just taken this image of the moon, handheld, it was lighting up my garden so I thought I'd check it out.
Nikon D5600 1/250 @ ISO 250 300mm
 

Composite of six exposures of the recent total lunar eclipse viewed from Connecticut, USA. Exposures ranged from ISO100, f13, 1/200sec for the full moon before onset of the eclipse to ISO400, f6.3, 3sec for the total eclipse. Baby, it was cold outside (-18F wind chill). I've just about thawed out though. 

Designer is one of the best purchases I have ever made. Fun project I started to get more familiar with the application. Feel free to share your thoughts or criticisms.
vehicle_wheel.afdesign

You seem to have got the hang of it ‘quite’ well!

Amazing work! Shiny things (and wheels in particular) are notoriously tricky! These are wonderful!