Old Pic Restoration

Popsy

Hi all,

Hope this is the right place to post this. I have managed to get my hands on a jpeg photo of my great great grandmother and relations celebrating the birth of my mam and twin brother. As their 60th birthday is fast approaching I'd love to be able to get the picture touched up and printed as a gift to them both.

Could you possibly suggest a good photo restoration company to do the job for me as I wouldn't have a clue where to start with photoshop etc.

Thanks in advance for your help

Gumbo

Maybe post it up here. somebody may enjoy doing it if its not too far gone.

Zillah

People here usually do it for free as long as it's not a massive job. There are limits to what can be done, of course. A crappy low res image will always be a crappy low res image.

Popsy

really? thats brilliant. Well I'll post up the jpeg but I don't think its a very good resolution. If it can't be fixed, I'll try to get my hands on the original

thanks

Teyla Emmagan

That's a cool photo! Nice to see a relaxed snapshot, all our older family ones are all very posed. The quality is not bad either, that should come up really well.

I use Edmund Ross in Dublin in no one here can help you. He's expensive, but very very good.

Splinters

It doesnt look in terrible condition so thats the good news, but to do a decent job of restoring it you'd need a higher resolution version to work from. Is it possible for you to rescan it? If you're stuck and think you'll be near the city centre any evening this week, let me know and I can scan the original for you in much higher resolution.

Popsy

Thanks for your offer Splinters, but I've just found out I've no way of getting my hands on the original. Not to worry, I'll see if I can get someone to do a little job on it from the version I have. I know it won't be up to scratch but it'll have to do, I'm hoping the gesture of doing it will be enough

MikeD22

I can have a go at restoring the version you have if you like. It wont be a perfect job due to low resolution but i can see if i can improve it somehow

Popsy

MikeD22 wrote: »

I can have a go at restoring the version you have if you like. It wont be a perfect job due to low resolution but i can see if i can improve it somehow

That would be amazing if you could try. Thank you very much MikeD22

Kbeg3

I just had a quick go at it, far from perfect but an improvement I think. Would be easier with a higher res version

Popsy

Thank you so much Kbeg3, thats wonderful. Theres a definate difference in the quality of the picture now

MikeD22

60thcelebration restore by MichaelD212, on Flickr

Here's my attempt. Much the same as above.

Popsy

Thank you so much for your help

Tokyo

If you're interested, you should have a go at colouring the b&w photo. There's an excellent article in the June edition of N-Photo magazine on how to do this, and the results are very impressive.