Unsolicited photo retouch

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lovebug777 on July 11st, 2018 at 20:14 UTC »

This is so cool! I wish I knew how to do this

UncleSlippyFist on July 11st, 2018 at 20:54 UTC »

Haha, for a second I thought the joke was that all they did was edit out the WTC towers.

BMWbill on July 11st, 2018 at 21:17 UTC »

Hi guys. I never heard of this sub but someone found my act of kindness and shared it here. I am very humbled. FYI I did this quick retouching job this morning when I got to work and came upon this photo a stranger shared of his parents. I cannot share the link from the original sub as that is a private sub but the topic of the day is for people to share their oldest photos they have on their phone. This guy posted a nicely composed photo of his parents when they first came to America. As a born-and bred New Yorker I was moved by it and as a retoucher all my life, I felt I could improve it. As others pointed out, most of the work was a quick auto-balance. But that introduced a lot of color noise and artifacting so I quickly pointed over a lot of the new noise you cannot see. I also removed a weird stalker guy out of this crop- the original is much larger. I gray balanced on the parents rather than the background which is too cyan. This all took me maybe 10 minutes. Not a large act of kindness but I am also fast at what I do as I have been doing this for over 25 years. For a few thousand I could make this photo look brand new but that kind of defeats the point. The point was to quickly improve a photo that faded due to photochemical decomposition. Anyway what a cool experience to be noted on this great subreddit! Peace.