Another not very good little snap that I have been working on; this is one of my Dad's sisters and the young man who became her husband - Uncle Walter to me, both no longer with us. No idea where it was taken or when but they look very young here so at a guess it must again be in the twenties.

Initially I had to use the healing brush to work on cracks and marks ( age spots lol!) I then masked the photograph revealing the parts I wanted using a fotoblendz as a brush then duplicated the layer 3 times and worked with brushes to either cover up more of the photograph or reveal different parts using different blending modes to try and get a bit more definition to the figures. the bottom layer is normal with a bit of curves used, second layer is multiply and top layer is hard light 29%. I still wasn't happy with my uncle's face which isn't so clear in the original photograph so used another two layers with only his face revealed set to colour dodge 22% and 54% opacity. I don't really know what I'm doing, I just experiment until I think it looks OK The bottom layer is a plainish artsy paper and on top of that is an artsy paper on Multiply mode. layered on top of these are a selection of overlays and transfers on different blending modes; some are colour burn, some soft light and some overlay, this allowed me to build up colour but retain the texture from the original paper. I clipped another paper to a modgrunge fotoblendz (discontinued unfortunately) to give me the sun effect, duplicated twice and changed the mode to hard light, 71% then 34% opacity fill, then used a fotoglow on 50% opacity to give a little bit of warmth to the page. Layered on top of this is a cloud brush and birds. The water reflection is a transfer from AP H2o which I also masked and then revealed using some artsy brushes. I desaturated this slightly. The rest is some extra stains and texture from AT miniGelid, a Subtle Quote wordart and a frame from AP Magic Rabbit.

Apologies as I have forgotten what the background paper is... but on top of it on multiply mode is a paper and some transfers from:
ArtPlay Palette Break Away(Paper/transfers)
https://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtPlay-Palette-Break-Away.html
ArtPlay Palette Arrive (transfers/overlays)
https://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtPlay-Palette-Arrive.html
ArtsyTransfers MiniGelid
https://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtsyTransfers-MiniGelid.html
FotoBlendz Overlays No. 10
https://www.oscraps.com/shop/FotoBlendz-Overlays-No.-10.html
WarmGlows No. 7
https://www.oscraps.com/shop/WarmGlows-No.-7.html
SubtleQuotes Beach No. 1
https://www.oscraps.com/shop/SubtleQuotes-Beach-No.-1.html
ArtPlay Palette Magic Rabbit
https://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtPlay-Palette-Magic-Rabbit.html