Old Photo Restoration

This is my old photo retouching. I thought this was fairly easy, though i had to start over once, once i started.. I'm sure if you look at his face, i'm sure you can tell which eye I struggled most with.  I mainly tried to paint with the colors that were already on his face by cloning the color, but it was more of green color and his face had a lot of shadow to it, so it looks a little off :]

This is the 2nd photo i retouched, I think I did a pretty good job on this. It took about 30ish minutes total for me to so it. I got rid of all the dark sports (collar, background) and dark areas (all four corners, left side) with the clone, paint and spot healing tools. I also got rid of the biggest crack in the middle of his face. Since it went over his ear and eyebrow, I painted his eyebrow back on and I cut his left ear, and flipped it and made some adjustments to the color and just completely cover his left ear.

Photo Montage

This is my photo montage picture. I had to shoot twice since the first shoot was too overlapped, i'm sure that's no surprise though. As you can clearly see, there is a giant gap within the tree. I'm not exactly sure how that happened...

Trying to fit this picture to remake the tree was like trying to complete 1000 piece puzzle. It was SO hard, but once i could finally comprehend what i was sort of looking at, I really enjoyed this, which is really weird because it was such a meticulous process.


Update:
So, i fixed it! The whole is gone! I just copied other layers that look similar.