Help with this pic

gsxr1

My grandparents who are passed away. My grandfather in the 80s and my gran this Christmas. My father is still getting over his loss. I would like to present a few nice pics of them to him.

They are mostly from the 40s and 50s. and the original photos are 2x3 inchs. They all look great but cant really be expanded.



size i have



I have been tinkering with a few all day with CS5. trying to get rid of noise and sharpening .

Can any one help with a workable process in photoshop that I can use to reduce noise and sharpen. I have been messing with highpass filters and blur.

I can use photo shop at a 2 year beginner level.

sebphoto

This is scanned picture?
Try this or pm me and we'll discuss further

gsxr1

yes. it is scanned.

noise ninja costs a nice few pound.

sebphoto

gsxr1 wrote: »

yes. it is scanned.

noise ninja costs a nice few pound.

What scanner did you use? How large is output file?
There's also such noise on print?

gsxr1

sebphoto wrote: »

What scanner did you use? How large is output file?
There's also such noise on print?

its my dads scanner. I am going to get the pic and scan it with my scanner which will work 1200dpi . His only works at 600dpi. As far as I know the original is perfect. But wallet size.

magicbastarder

there's probably little point scanning it much higher than 600dpi; a photographic print wouldn't hold more detail than that, generally. though if your scanner is optically better (rather than simply boasting a higher resolution), it can't hurt.

sebphoto

gsxr1 wrote: »

its my dads scanner. I am going to get the pic and scan it with my scanner which will work 1200dpi . His only works at 600dpi. As far as I know the original is perfect. But wallet size.

Yep, use scanner with max optical resolution (and CCD lamp) or give these photographs to someone who have macro lens and you'll have awesome results.

I just ran NoiseNinja across it on it's default settings. Really softens it, though.