Photoshop request .Extreme restore

[Paul Boyo white]

This is the last photo of my grandfather before he died in 1978 .
As you can see its very damaged
any help would be most welcomed.

 

[peta62]

I hope somebody here is better than me, there is no useful colour information and as long as I do not want to paint something into the picture I cannot do more. Sorry.

 

[sprucemagoo1]

Hope your not in a rush, I've only just started, and is a huge job to do correctly, but if you don't mind waiting, might be about two days, fitting it in between my real job.

Here is Got rid of some noise and colour to cardi and blouse.
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[Paul Boyo white]

I am in no hurry at all .Like I say im grateful for anything.I have made lots of attempts but they never ever work .
My knowledge is basic .

 

[Paul]

Not spent much time on it, just having fun.
:mrgreen:

 

[Burned Ice]

I hope somebody here is better than me, there is no useful colour information and as long as I do not want to paint something into the picture I cannot do more. Sorry.

I am not familiar with colour restoration but there are a lot of things like that crack on the woman and all the black and white dots that could have been easily removed. As you can see, not all of them are removed, but it's such an easy job :



I used your picture, peta, to do this, I really like the work done so far, but those little corrections took me 3 minutes of time

 

[Dataflow]

a higher res scan would help get a better result

 

[Dataflow]

here is a quick edit

 

[Paul Boyo white]

How high ?
I scanned it as a Tiff so its 64mb in size.I thought this would give me the best file for working with,however filesize restrictions and all that.
What type of filesize would you suggest please?

 

[Dataflow]

as high as you can thats if you want better result

 

[Paul Boyo white]

Where can i find the filesize allownce for these forums I am not seeing it

 

[Paul Boyo white]

this is bigger version,not a lot but hope it helps

 

[Dom]

Quick clean up for you

 

[Paul Boyo white]

Why are you asking members to do this when you can already edit damaged photos anyway?

I can do some things,this is one that I cannot do.Maybe I should try somewhere else.
Thanks to all who tried.

 

[peta62]

Where can i find the filesize allownce for these forums I am not seeing it

Either ask admins or try, I have seen attachments over 50MB as far as I can remember.

 

[peta62]

I can do some things,this is one that I cannot do.Maybe I should try somewhere else.
Thanks to all who tried.

I can fully understand, I also would like to have photoes of my closest people who are long gone as faithful as possible.

 

[Paul Boyo white]

I can do a little of the patch tool,heal tool for repair.other things I do I use you tube video and usually have it running step by step.Colourizing I just have not got my head around yet.I have done a few simple clone photos of my sons and a couple of pop out photos but thats as far as I got so far.

 

[Steve]

Where can i find the filesize allownce for these forums I am not seeing it

You can upload JPG's up to 1920x1280 pixels.
http://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum...6-types-attachments-you-can-upload-forum.html

The file sizes are different depending on the file type but the sizes are pretty large.

 

[Paul Boyo white]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/57024139@N02/7510812234/sizes/l/in/photostream/

This is my flickr account very large files

 

[sprucemagoo1]

Sorry mate, I've just got a massive job in today, so someone else will have to finish it. Got about half of it done, Though still a lot to do. Here it is so far.
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