Photo Restoration

[Juan T]

Any advice on photo restoration especially when one eye of a person is missing or damaged? Thanks.

[thomaso]

Sounds a little like a joke. Are there any further informations?

Otherwise: copy + flip a (the?) healthy eye. Don't hurt. The Freehand and/or the Selection Brush Tools + the Clone Brush and the Erase Brush Tools might become the most used tools for the restoration. Adjust light & shadow if different on both halves of the face.

[Patrick Connor]

On 4/15/2020 at 2:45 AM, thomaso said:

Sounds a little like a joke. Are there any further informations?

Otherwise: copy + flip a (the?) healthy eye. Don't hurt. The Freehand and/or the Selection Brush Tools + the Clone Brush and the Erase Brush Tools might become the most used tools for the restoration. Adjust light & shadow if different on both halves of the face.

Please don't come across as insensitive, this is not a joke.

Your recipe, however, should work thanks

[thomaso]

To make it more clear: It needs a very different workflow to restore parts of an image which do exist somewhere in the image as undamaged – like removing scratches or dust – than to restore non-existing and thereby to (re-)create parts. In particular a missing eye in a frontal portrait will be a lot easier to restore than in a side portrait.

Unless such quite relevant information is not given in an how-to question it may appear droll (sensitive: "sound", "a little"), like it could for instance in "How to restore disappeared easter eggs in the nest?" or "How to restore missing money in my purse?" or even "How to restore the damaged roof in a photo of the cathedral?". In conflicting situations, humor can be a healthy way to deal with the conflict.

Here is a sample .afphoto which may give an impression of masking + adjusting in a restore process.
Hide/unhide the foreground or its single sub-layers to compare before/after.

restore missing.afphoto

Don't use this file for any other than inspecting it !

[Toad]

Affinity Photo is a non-trivial tool that requires considerable study and practice to master, indeed, to do even some simple things. 

When novices like me inquire about how to do something, it is more helpful to give specific steps.  Instead of instructing:

"...copy + flip a (the?) healthy eye..."  which is something I actually need to do but couldn't using that particular hint.  I had to do more searching to come up with even part of the process:  use the freehand selection tool using a feather of X and anti-alias, select the good eye, copy it using shift-command-c.  Now, flipping it is beyond me as I can't find directions for flipping a selection.  My experiments flipped the entire layer.  And now, there are 'eye-shaped holes' in the layer I just worked with.  My 120 year old photo of my uncle remains blind in one eye - and has become holy. 

I am hoping specific detailed instructions are exempt from the egos of the masters on this site.

[Lem3]

For an eye, make the selection, copy to a new layer with Ctrl-J, then menu item Arrange -> Flip Horizontal.

[Ron P.]

Photo restoration, depending on how damaged the photo is, can be very time consuming and complex. There's several tutorials available, just do a search for Photo Restoration using Affinity Photo

Here's a couple from Youtube.

Restore Old Pictures in Affinity Photo

Affinity Photo; Fix Old Photos//Restoration Guide

Simon Foster's Little Box of Tricks, which is found on Udemy.com, I purchased a few of his tutorials. His tutorials are very detailed, and easy to understand.

[Toad]

Thank you both, Lem3 and Ron P.

I appreciate such rapid responses. 

[Ron P.]

Your welcome