Faded 18th century photo

gerardpallen

19th Centuary About 1870 onwards

I'm interested in Family History. I've recentely been given some old photos, but some are very faded. Any advice I'd appreciate. I'm based in Cork.

I can post the picture, if that's possible

Many thanks
Gerard:D

Ricky91t

Post the picture ill give a shot at touching it up,cant really give any advice till we see it!

gerardpallen

How do I post it on this site.:D

gerardpallen

O.K. Think I got it.:D

Phototoxin

This could still be better but here's a quick attempt. by the way the fact that its in gif format and the compression used really ruins it. It would be better if you could scan it at about 300+ dip and save it in bitmap (.bmp) tiff or even jpeg (.jpg) format




Full size

Ricky91t

Well i gave it a shot only using lightroom though might give it a shot in cs3 tomorrow

Ricky91t

Actually yeah it would give up more of a chance to give up the largest resolution you can get!

gerardpallen

Thanks Guys
I'll try and scan the photo again

Gerard:D

sheesh

looking at it there seems to be plenty of detail there to still work with. but it looks like alot of cloning for you .

as everyone else said larger scan

I'm doing one for my mother at the moment too and I scanned it at 600dpi working on the faces individually because the file sizes are so big

copying out the faces to an individual file and work on that remove the background paste the fixed face in on a different layer

it might be helpful if you posted up a section of the rescanned image, like the face, instead of the whole thing.

gerardpallen

Thanks for all your help.
I'm going to have to get the photo from an Uncle again and scan again. It may take a week or so to get the photo

Gerard:D

gerardpallen

sheesh wrote: »

looking at it there seems to be plenty of detail there to still work with. but it looks like alot of cloning for you .

as everyone else said larger scan

I'm doing one for my mother at the moment too and I scanned it at 600dpi working on the faces individually because the file sizes are so big

copying out the faces to an individual file and work on that remove the background paste the fixed face in on a different layer

it might be helpful if you posted up a section of the rescanned image, like the face, instead of the whole thing.

What scanner would you recommend I use. I've got to get a new one anyway

Gerard

sheesh

gerardpallen wrote: »

What scanner would you recommend I use. I've got to get a new one anyway

Gerard

Haven't a clue. I used a scanner/photocopier/printer that came with the mothers computer, it seemed to be grand. I am assuming epson would be ok.

sheesh

desaturated the scan and worked on the face it is hard to know if the absence of the right hand side is due to a smudge or some facial injury.

Curran

Totally new to post processign and Photoshop - but I thought I'd give it a go - but would definately benefit from a better scan!

So here we go