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Hi good people.  I cannot for the life of me make out the surname on this marriage certificate.  Please help!  If it helps, the person was probably born around 1840 ish in Wales.

I got very interested in photo restoration a while back when creating a family tree for my Dad, but my 'skills?' lapsed.  I really took my hat off to some of the restorers on here who worked absolute miracles.

I'm rambling.  Basically I am a school teacher, and have a year 11 (wonderful) class who have to edit some bitmap and vector images.  They have done fantastic with the vectors, and I thought perhaps photo restoration would be a great thing for them to get into for their final GNVQ project.

Tomorrow I am going to let them log in here, and have a look at the restorations that have been done so they can appreciate what can be achieved.  Letting them view your work is favour enough from you all, I know that, and am eternally grateful that I can.  I want them to try it out though on their parent's old piccies.  Trouble is, the only software we have at school is Corel.  If anyone has a tutorial in Corel for doing this, they would be off and running with your expertise far more than I can haphazardly teach them.

If you have any restorations you are proud of, or can give hints with Corel, they and I would be delighted.

Thank you all in advance.

If nobody replies, no worries, it is enough for them to view the forum, and thank anyway for making your work public.

Excellent work so far   thanks!

As for grandad's apparel, I don't even wanna go there and tell you what colours I think they are 

ps, you think someone would have told my grandad that patterned shirts and patterned ties are a no go!

Thanks Prue   I did a great deal more work on that piccy before I finally pronounced it finished - I saw your colouring in I thought it was brilliant