Author Topic: Mother in Law's relatives (Read 746 times)

Gadget · « **on:** Thursday 07 April 22 22:06 BST (UK) »

I've got a whole pile of scanned photos to sort through and repair and wondered if you could help me out by restoring this one, please

Just black and white or toned.

Thanks.

Gadget

Ian Nelson · « **Reply #1 on:** Friday 08 April 22 10:34 BST (UK) »

blemishes cloned over, levelled and cropped.
Feel free to colour or tone it, cheers, Ian

Gadget · « **Reply #2 on:** Friday 08 April 22 10:50 BST (UK) »

Thanks, Ian. Enjoy your football

Quote from: Ian Nelson on Friday 08 April 22 09:57 BST (UK)

I'm full of analogies this morning but I've got to go, Walking Football this morning, must dash, cheers, Ian

japeflakes · « **Reply #3 on:** Friday 08 April 22 11:14 BST (UK) »

Gadget · « **Reply #4 on:** Friday 08 April 22 11:49 BST (UK) »

Thank you very much, Japeflakes. A great improvment

Mike Morrell (NL) · « **Reply #5 on:** Friday 08 April 22 17:40 BST (UK) »

My try (keeping my hand in

. Far from perfect but better than the original, I hope. I tried to balance the difference between underexposure (left) and overexposure (right). I also tried out 2 Topaz "AI" tools (Noise reduction and Sharpening) for the first time in restoration. I'd welcome any comments on the effects of these (unnecessary? useful? too much?)

Ian Nelson · « **Reply #6 on:** Friday 08 April 22 20:27 BST (UK) »

No matter how much I twiddled with any tools I couldn't make out if the man is standing behind a wall on which the children are standing, or he is crouching with his left knee partly obscuring the girl's knee and top of shin, or is he sitting on a toadstool. Anyhow, the girl looks unhappy to me, I was tempted to give her a smile or a smirk, glad I didn't though, didn't want to risk incurring the 'Wrath of Gadget'.
Unless the surrounds and background add character to the photo I concentrate on their faces, then their limbs and hands and hair and don't spend much time on the clothing, and I probably crop too much, but I find the Levels & Curves tools work better with just the people.
cheers, Ian

Gadget · « **Reply #7 on:** Friday 08 April 22 20:29 BST (UK) »

Thanks, Tony. Much improved. It's very clear. I've noticed you popping in every so often

Re Topaz - I've had the original set of Topaz filters for about 6 years but I wasn't impressed with them. I now only use the Adjust AI filter's tonal collections. Also, I have PSCC for my main app and they're not totally compatible. I still use some of the old Nik collection filters - mainly Viveza and Silver effects. Adobe Camera Raw also gives various options to reduce noise, sharpening, etc.

Topaz keep e-mailing me to offer free trials of the latest AI offerings but I've not taken them up.

Thanks again

Gadget

Trishanne · « **Reply #8 on:** Saturday 09 April 22 00:27 BST (UK) »

Here is one from me. I'm afraid I cannot compete with other restorers as I do not use any special tools or filters, just my good old Adobe photo deluxe 4. I am getting too old now to change the way I restore photos but am happy to be able to produce a reasonable result. I had my 86th birthday a couple of days ago.

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