my first photo

[jds1949]

Can anything be done to restore/improve this; it is the earliest photo of me taken when my parents brought me home from hospital.

Thanks

jds1949

[rsinbad]

Not a lot better

[Lynntony]

Not a lot better

Personal opinion is that it's a vast improvement on the original rsinbad.
I had a play with this one and gave up! ( Not enough hair left to pull out!! )

Tony

[JustLooking]

If jds could rescan at 300 dpi and with no compression, it might be a better original to work on 

It's only 72 dpi and very heavily pixellated.

Good attempt rsinbad 

JL

[rsinbad]

 

Personal opinion is that it's a vast improvement on the original rsinbad.
I had a play with this one and gave up! ( Not enough hair left to pull out!! )

Tony

Thanks for that, it is a difficult one virtually all black pixels,. Where is the best place to buy wigs  

[jds1949]

Thanks for all your efforts so far - I'm sorry about the lack of hair. I've re-scanned at a higher resolution - I hope its better and promotes new hair growth,

Thanks

jds1949

[Niksmum]

According to my software its still 72 dpi 

Irene

[Lynntony]

Personal opinion is that it's a vast improvement on the original rsinbad.
I had a play with this one and gave up! ( Not enough hair left to pull out!! )

Tony

Thanks for that, it is a difficult one virtually all black pixels,. Where is the best place to buy wigs  

Good idea that. Instead of pulling your hair out you could just throw it across the room!!     

[jds1949]

Thanks again - but now I'm tearing my hair out!

I've tried six times to scan the original at a higher resolution. I set the scanner [Epson SX105] to scan at 300 dpi - same result as before.

I then used the controls on Picassa - also set to scan at 300 dpi - same result!

The highest I can get seems to be 96dpi.

Clearly I'm doing something wrong, but I'm at a loss to know what.

All suggestions - and hair tonic - welcomed,

jds1949