Captain Steve patrols the skies over France! Working on "Steve's World" and having a lot of fun. This is a heavily edited composition and I don't even know where to start with a workflow description...
I found an old portrait on some stock photo sites. All I can find is this was taken around 1917. I used it to practice my photoshop skills. The general procedure I followed was: Import into photoshop and resize to 4500 pixels wide Do a very hard noise reduction in Topaz Denoise to remove the banding and artifacts I then added back some skin texture with an add noise layer I colorized the picture using multiple color layers - one layer for each component I combined all the visible layers into a new layer I used Topaz Clarity to sharpen…