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Hi and sorry I didn't reply earlier - it has been a long day. Thank for your work on my photo which is excellent and I much appreciate the time you have spent on it. I do try to 'improve' them myself in the first place but get nowhere near what you achieve
Kind regards
Linda

Hi
 I wonder if anyone can do some magic with this photo of my 2xgt grandmother, my gt grandmother my great uncle and my mother. While it doesn't look like it the photo is actually of 4 generations and taken in about 1934. Any help is greatly appreciated as I know it isn't a particularly attractive photo and not very good quality but  it is one of great family interest. I have scanned it at 300 dpi but it is still only 151 kb - should i have changed something else to get it nearer the 500 kb?
Thank you
Linda

China - Thank you very much for your reply which has very much given me food for thought. I hope you don't mind me asking subsequent questions or if in doing so I am stepping on forum ettiquette etc. If I please just tell me
My 3xgt grandmother Mary Heywood nee Thompson 1805 to 1900 is the lady in my 2nd photo which I have called Mary Heywood original ( as I thought it was). This is an original photo has been passed down to me by my direct line and always understood to be Mary
Her dau my 2xgt grandmother Margaret Whitworth - nee Heywood 1844 to 1940 i thought was going to be the 3rd photo, a copy from Australia,  which I have named Margaret Whitworth. Now that photo has been dated as 1860 or poss late 1850s it  cannot be Margaret and yet looks too young to be her mother Mary in 1860 when she would have been about 50 yrs old. Yet I must say the tone / possible subject of the photo looks correct. Mary's husband set off to Australia with 3 of their sons in 1853 and before the ship arrived her husband died. I don't know how long it took for this news to get back to her but that could have been the reason for the photo. I am mystified
I hope you don't mind me asking for your help again and so I have taken a risk and attached a 4th photo. It is again a copy from Australia but I know for certain that the mother in this is Margaret Whitworth and photo was taken in about 1882. Could you have a look at my earlier photos and with the additional information and your expertise make any sense of them. I will mention I have one other photo of Margaret which is an original and is a full face but needs some work on but if it you think it will help with this just let me know.
If I have asked more than I should please just let me know.
Kind regards
Linda

Thank you that is a great help and certainly confirms your view that it is not the same person. Mary Heywood was born in 1805 and died in 1900 so could not have been the woman in the copy Mary Heywood photo. Back to the drawing board. Linda

Hi Could anyone help with dating the attached copy photo of Mary Heywood or her daughter (my 2 or 3 x gr grandmother. The original photo was sent by my ancestors to their descendants in Australia and handed down to their descendants who are my distant cousins who I have managed to contact and they have sent me a copy back. I realise it being a copy does make it more difficult but sadly I haven't been able to get an electronic version of the original which I suppose may also have been a copy. I have attached a different  photo (Mary Heywood 7.2.15) which is an original and I think is of the same person taken at a later time and thought may help. I am still on a learning curve with dpi and resizing and the photo scanned today( Mary Heywood 7.2.15) is 300 dpi but only 190kb as I wasn't sure whether to resize it or re-scan it at 400 dpi or higher.  I apologies if it is impossible. Thank you for your time. linda