My first attempt at photo restoration. Please evaluate.

[u/erikayui]

This was my first attempt at restoring a photo. I mainly used the following tools in Adobe Photoshop:

1. Patch Tool

2. Spot Healing Brush

3. Healing Brush

4. Clone Stamp Tool

Lastly, I used an online image upscaler and manually removed the watermark.

How did I do? And how can I improve further?

[u/shhikshoka]

Looks pretty good but this is an example of why Ai is good as a tool if used correctly Ai could be used to restore images in seconds instead of all this tedious work just to clarify I don’t support Ai for making art but for stuff like this it’s perfect

[u/erikayui → u/shhikshoka]

Yeah, it did such an amazing job—I can even see individual pores. Recently, the trend of turning images into Ghibli-style art kind of terrifies me. I'm no artist, but I believe the beauty of art lies in the fact that a human invested their time and emotion into the artwork.

[u/shhikshoka → u/erikayui]

Definitely humans make art special but restoring images is just tedious work there’s not a lot of creativity in it which makes it perfect for Ai

[u/erikayui → u/shhikshoka]

Can you recommend any that can be used to restore photos? The ones I found only enhance photo quality but don't restore any damage .

[u/Predator_ → u/erikayui]

Keep in mind that once an AI has a hold of your photos (or text or anything that you've allowed to be ingested), you no longer own it. You are granting the parent company to train on it and make whatever it wants from it. If you don't own the copyright to the photo nor it's rights, then you should never allow AI to touch it. (As in a client had you retouch for them.)

[u/erikayui → u/Predator_]

Ahhh.. I never thought about it this way . Thanks for letting me know. You saved me from making a huge blunder in the future.

[u/ojiverse → u/erikayui]

Maybe chatGPT