Much of the time, repairing a photo is more difficult than it looks. This was not one of the those cases.
Though it may look difficult because such large pieces are missing, the majority of what was missing was background, so repairing them mostly involved some creative cloning and blending.
The most difficult part to fix was the piece missing from the lower left corner, because part of the child’s leg is missing. This took some time to rebuild, but it’s pretty believable, isn’t it? I used the part of her leg that was still showing in order to create a realistic vision of what the rest of her leg would look like. Also, if you look closely at the original picture you will see the dimple of her knee if half there, half missing. In the finished photo, you can see the entire dimple, which I recreated.
After fixing the missing pieces, I finished with the detail work that involved getting rid of spots on her face, and some tears and cracks that were too thin for you to be able to see in the above examples and some other small but important details.
Once all detail work was done, I wanted to give the photo a softer look, so I used my "Pure Softness" Special Effect. You can see more examples of this effect on the Special Effects page of www.ginismagic.com.
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