Hi Guys. My cousin,has emailed me an old b/w photo, which is in a pretty rough condition, and asked if I could enhance it any. I'm a Brycer and my knowledge is strictly limited. It's well beyond my capabilies. If anyone enjoys this type of challenge, I can post it here! I apologise if this is considered bad form asking but I Know how clever some of you guys are, and if you don't ask, you never know....!LOL Thanks - John.

so where is the Picture?!?!?!?

Yeah...if we can see it we can get a better idea of how "rough" it actually is! Just post it to this thread!

Thanks guys, as I said it's pretty bad! Cheers - John.

will give it a try and repost and then u can tell me if it was that u were looking 4 ciao 4 now thanks

will give it a try and repost and the u can tell if it was that u were looking 4 ciao 4 now thanks

will give it a try and repost and then u can tell if it was that u were looking 4 ciao 4 now thanks

oof.. that's pretty bad.. aside from the damage there's a lot of JPG artifacts as well.

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here are some previous restoration links that show what was done on a few other photos with Photoshop &/or Paintshop Pro Is this taking on too much? here Any ideas or suggestions? here I need a very big favour.................. here & a site that has a lot of good tips: retouchpro.com takes a lot of time & patience but it can be done ;]

Thanks dtp and cynlee. I'll certainly look into those links. Cheers - John.

I haven't done it for you, all I have done is use preset modes but just had a little play while I had nothing to do. I'll list what I did so it may give you an idea and start if you want to do a more careful job.

Firstly I used PSP9 (free download trial available if you don't have it already).

Adjust/Add-Remove Noise/JPEG artefact removal - used at preset Max.

Adjust/Photo Fix/Digital Camera Noise Removal - used at preset.

Adjust/Colour Balance/Fade Correction - used at level 70.

Clone brush to repair 2nd face.

Select around the people freehand and feather 10pix

Adjust/Colour Balance/Fade Correction - used at preset small.

Deselect.

Adjust/One Step Photo Fix - used at preset.

Tidied up using soften brush.

I am sure you will achieve better results if you take more time and select the settings carefully rather than just use the presets.

Hope this helps
Richard.

Message edited on: 08/21/2005 08:14

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Thanks Onslow, useful info there!