Replacing that which no longer exists

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Dear All,

Being new to this forum, and for years going down the "if all else fails, read the instructions" road to getting anything done, I've finally come across the impossible (at least for me!). I'm currently trying to do up some old photos (and I mean old!) and some of the scanned faces are in such a state that the left or right halves of many have been completely obliterated either through age or bad developing. I have tried cloning bits from one side to add to the other, but almost invariably end up with some bloated half human looking countenance that would perhaps do better in a horror movie.
Can anyone suggest a reasonably easy way to put back the other half of a face to at least make it look something like the person it's supposed to represent? If necesssary, that would also include an app that may exist especially for this purpose. (I have photoshop, which I'm still trying to get to grips with, and a few others from Corel etc.)

many thanks


rgds

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I wouldnt even try. If you look at any persons face you will see that the two halves are never ever identical so to use one half to mirror the other is going to look very unreal. If you had a long time to play you could try doing a mirror of the face and then distorting some features like eyes, mouth etc, to see what happens. Of course it is only going to work when you have a front profile of the face. If the shot isn't taken stright on - forget it.
 
As said it is possible to swop sides over (and not difficult) but whether it'll look right is another matter, if you have more than one shot of that person you can sometime use the correct side from another pic.
Without actually seing the shot it's hard to say how easy or difficult it would be to do a decent job.
 
Thanks for the info folks. Sadly all responses are as I suspected.. The only way so far was to do exactly as mentioned - more or less clone one half of a face to the other and fool around with the result. (Not very successful I might add judging by the comments received, eg. "He never looked anything like that back then!" - as if anyone could remember...) .
I guess all these wonderful computer picture fix-it apps exist only in soaps, sci-fi and TV cop programs...

cheers

PT.
 
A lot of the CSI sort of thing is based on real technology/science but the capabilities are massively exaggerated and the time frames are compressed dramatically. After all, viewers will have forgotten what the episode was about, when the DNA results come back several months later!
 
Oh yes how we all wish we had that software :)
 
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