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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: SiCallear on Monday 07 August 17 12:56 BST (UK)
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Help - photo restoration and dating
the attached photograph is taken from a family bundle of photos that relate to my Mum's Mum's branch of the family tree. My Gran's maiden name was Chieco and I believe this photograph shows the family circa late 1920s. The family were from Gallipoli in Southern Italy.
If our assumptions are correct then the baby is my Gran (1928-2003) and the lady holding her is her mum Matilde (1892-1983)
Dating: If this assumption is correct then the photo must be taken approx. 1928-29. Can anyone advise if this fits with the (Italian) style of fashion, hair etc.
Restoration: The photograph is in poor condition. It is actually in several pieces and has been crudely secured together using packaging tape. Can anyone offer assistance with its restoration.
Thanks for reading (and thanks in advance for any assistance offered).
Ps, I have not used this part of the forum before. I scanned the photo at 600dpi but found I have to reduce the quality to allow me to comply with the upload limits.
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Certainly 1920's but couldn't pin it down to 1928 but there's no reason it couldn't be.
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This is such a wonderful photo. Sorry I haven't spent the time making it as great as it once was but here is a repair attempt. A few wobbly fingers and faces that are just not perfect but better then the rips.
Hopefully someone else will post another soon. A lot of work to be done in this one.
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My try
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Great work Loord74. I can now see the rookie mistake I made with the joins in the photo. I was confused as to why the young girl had such a thick leg!! Wasn't her thick leg, rather my thick head :)
I am certainly enjoying improving my skills. I am sure SiCallear will be very happy with it.
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Great work Loord74. I can now see the rookie mistake I made with the joins in the photo. I was confused as to why the young girl had such a thick leg!! Wasn't her thick leg, rather my thick head :)
I am certainly enjoying improving my skills. I am sure SiCallear will be very happy with it.
Thanks alot , you have a high level of skills shown in photo you posted , to be honest , you did more accurate small details , you are brilliant
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One from me.....
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Wow - I am watching this post with great interest (and much appreciation). ;)
I have some Photoshop skills but these are rusty as time to play/practice is very limited. It is interesting to see what can be achieved. I am particularly intrigued to see what results can be achieved with the face of the gentleman located top middle (whose name I await conformation of from family)
stsearcher's image appears sharper when compared to the later two versions (which seem slightly blurred) - is this seeming blurring of the edges an intentional step in the process?
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I've tried to sharpen it a little since your comment. Blurring for me, is like when you see a pencil artist blend certain areas in with their finger. I tend to blur areas that I don't have the skills to re-draw ;D Unfortunately, I couldn't draw if my life depended on it. Another problem for me, is that when I have been staring at a photo for 6 hours, like I have with this, I still manage to miss things that I see immediately I upload it... :)
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Brilliant work all of you
Xin
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I could not get the original size to load up below 500kb, even saving it at the lowest quality was over 500kb. Usually it works not sure what happened this time, so here is the screen shot. I would have to email the original sized one or maybe some knows a solution to sizing.
Good looking family.
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Wow - I am watching this post with great interest (and much appreciation). ;)
I have some Photoshop skills but these are rusty as time to play/practice is very limited. It is interesting to see what can be achieved. I am particularly intrigued to see what results can be achieved with the face of the gentleman located top middle (whose name I await conformation of from family)
stsearcher's image appears sharper when compared to the later two versions (which seem slightly blurred) - is this seeming blurring of the edges an intentional step in the process?
For me blurring is a way to hide some scratchs where it is difficult to heal , some clearing filters doing it by default , i agree with you that we need to practice
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Thank you for your kind comments Loord74, I just have too much time on my hands :). I also completely agree with Handypandy about not seeing flaws when you work on them for so long and don't notice till you upload. I now tend to view it in the browser a few times before I upload to see what I have missed.
However, everyone does a great job, especially considering how much time goes in to most of these. But it is FUN and I always get excited when I see one that I think I could help on.
Often I work on a new photo but see the great photo's already submitted and realise on those occasions that I can't compete and don't even submit my effort. This is good though because it means new skills can be learnt.
Great work everyone... this one was a big job (but fun.)
Glad you are enjoying the output SiCallear!
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..............Often I work on a new photo but see the great photo's already submitted and realise on those occasions that I can't compete and don't even submit my effort.............
Don't treat it like a competition, it will drive you mad ;D Everyone brings something different to the table. Don't be judge and jury of your own work, often times its subjective anyway.
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“Eccentric”: Thinking about painting a house with a toothbrush.
“Insane”: Starting it.
“Restorer”: Finishing it… and looking for more.
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One from me
Pat
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Colour one. Cheers, Peter.
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Lovely work everyone, :)
my effort,
Yvonne
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Beautiful job, Yvonne. You have a remarkable eye for the finest of detail. Peter.
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Thanks Peter for your comments, you did a great job yourself, :)
it was a difficult one, just a hint for those long fingers, I traced around the edge of the top right corner that was torn & moved it to match up with the tear line & did a 'free rotate' of .5 to the left to straighten more which helped match up the fingers. ;)
Yvonne
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Thanks, Yvonne. Great advice. Peter.