Saving Harold Assignment
The purpose of this assignment was to rescue the badly damaged black and white and color images of Harold the pup.
Black and white torn image of the pup
Restored black and white image
I made a selection out of my background
o I did this by using the magic wand tool and clicking on the background because it is completely white and would allow me to make a nice selection out of the background which I would then in turn use to cut everything out.
• Refined edges
o I then refined the edges by clicking the option to ‘select and mask’
▪ I brought the feather up and shifted the edge percentage up
▪ This ultimately gave me two separate selections
▪ After I separated the selections I inversed them by clicking select and inverse
• Duplicating Layers
o I then selected my ‘layer 0’ and used ctrl/cmd +J to duplicate pieces onto a new layer which would then be titled ‘layer 1’
o I then hid ‘layer 0’ to remove the background
• Selecting Layers
o I then used the lasso tool to make a selection around each one of the separated pieces
o On that layer, I hit ctrl/cmd +x to cut this piece selection
o Then I hit shift+ctrl/cmd+v to paste it onto a new layer
o I repeated this for the second piece
• Lining up the Layers
o I used ‘V’ for the move tool and started moving the different layers around to connect the two pieces
• Spot Healing
o I used this tool to get rid of all the blemishes and scratches on the photo
Torn colored image of Harold the pup
Restored colored image of Harold the pup
