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Keith Bateman
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Hi Ted,
Thanks for that about the "eye" - thats the sort of experienced information which is valuable - I was thinking of doing same for the coat etc - but hadn't thought about flipping his eye!! 
Great - wish I could have blocked off my ex-wifes mouth as easy as time has done to the boy!! 
Will have a go - look out for a PM in the future!!!!
Cheers
Keith
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deadants
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I have to agree with the others. Everything except the boys lower face is recoverable. Unless you can find another photo of the boy, I'd say you would only be able to repair his face from guesswork. That is starting to mess with historical evidence to much.
You really do need to scan the photo to a much higher dpi so you can get down to the details.
Also, do it in small steps. Consentrate on just one part till you think it looks respectable. Take your time. You won't complete this job in one sitting until you get a bit more experence under your belt, or mouse.
Try the tutorials for photo restoration for PSP here http://www.designertoday.com/tabindex-14/tabId-39/itemid-1212/DesktopDefault.aspx
Here's the big list of tutorials http://www.psplinks.com/content/Photo_Retouching.html
it's a curly one, but a great challange.
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Keith Bateman
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Hi deadants ,
Thanks for those sites - will go away and have a good read - and play.
One problem is we don't know who the boy is - so will have to work round that - leave it to the last perhaps.
Another thing to learn!! 
Thought now I was retired that I would have stopped learning new skills - seems just the opposite - must have been lazy before!!
Cheers
Keith
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deadants
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Thought now I was retired that I would have stopped learning new skills
Hi Keith,
You should try and learn something new every day.
I hope Paul gets that photo out of the shed soon.
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Paul E
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I hope Paul gets that photo out of the shed soon.
So does my wife! I'll get working on the case.
From memory, its a very intriguing photo - can't work out whether it may be regimental. I'll sort it as soon as I can - may have to just be a digital photo rather than a scan though.
Best wishes
Paul
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Keith Bateman
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Hi Ted,
I noticed you had removed the girl - but not the boy as well - until you said - yes that might be an option - perhaps make a separate one of my boy for later when we work out if he is ours??
Thanks for your help - have started on an easier one to see how it goes!
Cheers
Keith
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deadants
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just to Highlight the problems faced with Ted's photo, I have removed the major areas of destruction. The next step is to start rebuilding this photo with bits of other photos. In Katrin Eismann's book "Restoration & Retouching" She shows how to do this by recreating the scene with the help of some of your friends dressing in siilar clothes and taking a new photo, then extracting the parts that you need. Katrinn Eismann calls this creating a parts library. You could also look on the web for similar period poses and copy parts from them. Those faces are the big worry.
http://www.digitalretouch.org/
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deadants
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here's a small section of the man on the right I have played around with. The face is a pure guess.
so you can see that small steps is the secret to a reasonable result.
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Keith Bateman
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Hi deadants,
Thanks for those tips - wondered how to retouch his face - not artistic enough to draw - but might be able to copy!!
Might even buy that book - looks interesting even tho I have Paint Shop Pro - but will work in a similar way.
What a fountain of knowledge 
Thanks again
Keith
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Paul E
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Hi everyone
Well, I dug that photo out, and the best I could do was take a piccie with my rather underspecified digital camera!
I'm really interested in what this group of people might be. Its not part of my family (just think if they were all brothers!) but I picked it up in a second hand shop because it intrigued me.
Any ideas?
best wishes
Paul
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Paul E
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Hi Ted
I think I need to get it scanned!
Any ideas on what the group might be? It has a sort of colonial look to it to me.
Paul
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deadants
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Hi Paul,
If you could get it scanned so we can all get a good look at the detail, then we could all have our two cents worth of guessing what or who this group might be.
In the mean time, I have straightened it up a bit so we can have a better look.
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