Help restoring a old photo

[iDad]

looks more like Patrick Stewart to me

 

[fenix]

or Martha Stewart!

 

[Paul]

Or our old fiend photoplopper - » Restore to Perfect Picture. Photoshop Troll

 

[Grant Williams]

I would like to interject that the gurus here have shown you a good starting point. You can possibly sample the tear area that has been fixed to composite in with your own restoration and adjust it to fit the result you want. You know what the man on the left looks like so it's best that you tweak it to be more asthetic. I think the removing the dust from the image will make a nicer rendition but i would also keep the original as a texture map and bring back the texture as a layer with a blend mode or very low opacity to bring in some detail. Might I also add that once you have YOUR perfect rendition the way you like it you use a plug in to resize the image to the largest size you can while still maintaining the quality of the image because when you show this to family members and their jaws drop they may want copies in 8x10, 30x30, or other large formats that the original photo will not allow right away. Having a final image that can be blown up to large formats and then backed up to a minimum of three cd's or dvds and stored in different locations will help cherish this memory forever. Give one disk to the original owner, one to the subjects in the image if they are still alive and one in your archive in a disaster proof location. Once you have brought this photo back to life you do not want to lose the only copy in a fire flood or zombie Apocalypse. There my 1.98 and I wish you a pleasant restoration and have your camera ready for when you deliver this image back in a nice frame because I'm sure somebody is going to break down crying when they see it again. Then re archive that photo in with your archived disks. When the sand runs out on people hour glasses it will be good to have as many emotional shots of the memory to look back on.

 

[Paul]

Thread closed now maybe?

 

[Manda Burns]

This seemed like an interesting challenge. I've never done a Black and white restoration. Played around with color too.

 

[drusaiz]

I stabled upon this image in this forum and wanted to play with it too. Didn't take long. Low res though.