Can this be enhanced?

[sandie]

Hi All,

It's me again with another request.

My husband was recently sent this copy of a photograph, but as you can see it's not very clear.

I am at the moment enjoying playing with colourising photographs and although I have a long, long way to go, I can see light at the end of the tunnel.  However, when it comes to restoring/enhancing photos, I am completely and utterly hopeless.

If anyone can explain, in very simple terms, what I need to do to improve this picture, I would be very grateful.

Regards
Sandie

Oops, sorry, it's a bit large.  I daren't try to alter it, I may never see it again!

[Iria]

Hi Sandie..

I Tryed the Picture into Grayscale in PSP 9 the used the Adjust to enhance the Picture Hope you like it..

Regards

Iria

[Shaztoni]

I'm not sure if this helped, I just adjusted the brightness and contrast on photoshop 7

[arnietheother]

Curves tool in the GIMP, duplicated layer with gaussian blur, transparency mask, despeckle filter, levels tool to desaturate. 

[sandie]

Thank you all for your very quick responses.

They all look great.  He has an outline and facial features!!

Thanks again

Sandie

[Laverdiere]

My attempt 

[Man of Kent]

I've had a bash.
Maybe with name and rank and medal details the correct colours could be shown.

[sandie]

Laverdiere & Man of Kent

What can I say?  They look great.

Unfortunately I don't have the info. on medals, but the fact that he can now be seen is great.

Thank you both very much

Regards
Sandie

[liverpool annie]

Sandie is trying to find her relatives regiment - she posted her picture a couple of months ago and we wondered if somebody could try again!

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,89621.0.html

It really would be great if we could have a clearer picture to go by!

Thanking you in advance

Annie