Retouching

For the image of an old photograph of a house torn to bits, I used the magnetic and free-for lasso tool to drag stray pieces of the photo back where they fit. I also lassoed and cut away the stray paper parts on the edges of the pieces. However, there were some parts of the photo that didn't have a piece to put there. On the roof there was a missing piece where more roof and some plant should be so I selected and copied a chunk of another part of the roof and dragged it over. I did the same with the plant. They fit quite nicely. I used the ink dropper and the paint brush to fix some discoloration and the blur tool to blend in the lines in the roof. I also used the healing brush tool with the gray granite pattern and low hardness to blend and piece together small separation lines. For some of the bigger separation lines throughout the whole image, I used the clone stamp tool. I had to bring the brush down to a very small size in order to clone stamp dark lines into parts of the roof. I found the top left of the roof particularly difficult to do. I tried to think about the lighting every time I used the clone stamp tool, so that I wasn't just dragging one particular shade of a bush or tree into the whole object. I most difficult part of the editing was probably removing the lines and discoloration caused by the tape in the middle of the photo and creating some missing corners of the photo purely from scratch. For that, I increased the hardness by almost 100%. Once I drew on corners, I used the polygonal lasso tool to straighten and cut out the flaws, making straighter lines. Finally, I used the eraser to get rid of all the leftover scraps.