The document describes the process of recreating a photo to match the effects of an original photo. Several image editing techniques are used: 1) Cropping, brightness/contrast, hue/saturation, and color balance are used to match the darker tones, redness, and brown/yellow tones of the original photo. 2) Curves, photo filter, and clone stamp tools are used to replicate specific elements like darker facial features, a sepia tone, and background curtains/draws. 3) Finally, adding noise gives a speckled, blurred effect to further match the look of the original photo taken on older camera equipment.

1. Fourth recreation – Toothpaste
photo

2. Original picture I’m recreating
I pasted my chosen photo into Photoshop out of
all the shots I had taken. The effects in this photo
will be dark ones. I want to try and give my
recreation the same dark effect like its been
taken at night and on an old camera that maybe
didn’t have a flash. The first thing I’m doing is
cropping my picture so it shows the same as the
original.

3. The next effect I used was brightness and
contrast which I am using so that I can
make my whole image look darker like the
original. I will use the contrast most to pick
up on the already dark things in the picture
and make them darker.
I then used an effect called hue/saturation. This
effect worked well because I’m trying to recreate
the redness of the original image and the faces of
my mum and her friend. I didn’t turn up the
saturation to high so that the picture was to red.

4. I then used the brightness and contrast effect again so that
the redness of the picture was just left on the faces and
certain areas so the picture didn’t look to much like one
colour. I think this effect worked well and made my picture
more similar to the original.
Next I used an effect called colour balance to
add the colours yellow and red to my picture
more. Then mixture of these two colours
gave my picture a brown, yellow effect just
like the original. The original picture is like
this because it’s old and taken inside on a
film camera.

5. I used an effect called curves to make certain
parts of my picture darker. It made sure in my
recreation our faces weren’t to dark but the
bits around us were like in the original with
the curtain being darker in the background.
I used an effect called photo filter for my next
editing experiment. This effect puts a whole
filter of one colour over my image. I chose a
shade of orange as my filter colour. It gave my
picture a sepia, old looking effect which I think
worked really well and matched the original.

6. I decided that I wanted the curtain in the original
picture to be in my recreation. I used the clone stamp
tool to clone the curtain pattern from the original
picture and then I painted over the recreation picture
where the curtain would be to make my pictures
more similar. I also then used the clone tool
to clone the draws in the
background of the original
and put them into my
recreation so that props
around the picture were the
same to give the overall image
a better look.

7. This is the recreation and the original picture after I have just used the clone
stamp tool to copy things from the original to the recreation. I think it looks
good and worked on all 3 things I cloned. The draws in the back the curtain
pattern and the white piece of wood next to the curtain. I wanted to use the
clone stamp tool so my picture looked more similar with some real parts from
the original picture. I think it worked really well.

8. I used an effect called add noise which gave my picture
a speckled, blurred effect which I think worked really
well. I helped put the final touch to my picture looking
more like the original.