Can anyone clear up this image of a Carr Family Wedding from the 1940s

[Wiggy]

Terrific job Cazz!

[garbfink]

Amazing!

You have all put in a sterling effort! Thank you. I'm always amazed by how you guys (and girls) are willing to spend your valuable time to bring genuine joy to others. So thank you for all you hard work and efforts. jloy326, Handypandy, japeflakes, dafydd46, Cazza59, You are all class acts!

[cazza59]

Terrific job Cazz!

Thanks Wiggy, much appreciated! 

Caz

[McGroger]

Late one. Almost didn't post after seeing the fantastic jobs already done, especially the one by Cazz.

[Trishanne]

A late one from me too
Pat

[Mike Morrell (NL)]

What amazing results on this photo - I'm seriously impressed!

I played around with channels, masks and filters but got absolutely nowhere so I gave up on it. Like Dafydd, I'd be interested to hear how you tackled the stripes. Especially from Dafydd, Cazza and McGroger.

Mike

@Cazza59,
iallu
A very impressive result for this difficult photograph!
May I ask how you achieved it? I am always eager to learn.

dafydd46.

[McGroger]

Hi, Mike. From one learner to another.

With the archway I just obliterated the lines with the smudge and blur tools. With the pavement I ran the burn and dodge tools as appropriate to try to even out the darkness/lightness and then smudged what was left. I tried to do the same thing with the lines through the people: brush in either a darker or lighter area so that the lines would disappear. I also tried to make some people/objects darker or lighter so that their detail was clearer; that is, rather than just using either the burn or the dodge tool, I alternated between them.

I’m not that happy with the end result or the method. The method was very tedious and it was very difficult to get the shades right so that the lines would disappear; sometimes when I zoomed out I found I was making the lines worse or merely making them only slightly less visible. The result wasn’t really that good for the time involved. You’ll note that in desperation I added some canvas texture to try to hide some of the lines that were still to visible.

I have read that some programs and/or plugins have a facility for removing scan lines but I don’t know how effective they are. GIMP, or at least a plugin available for GIMP, is supposed to have it. I use Photoshop Elements and I can’t find anything like that in it.

I’d love to know how Dafydd46 so thoroughly got rid of the lines and also how Cazz achieved such a truly remarkable result; looks like a lot of very clever work.

Cheers, Peter

[ymfoster]

Lovely job Caz & Daffy, 

also good efforts by all,

Yvonne

[Handypandy]

I gave this one another crack with a few less short cuts, not sure that its much better....but hey-ho....