Help please with this important Picture

[Everlong]

Had some time to kill so had a play around. Tried to tidy up the edges a bit.

 

[Garrett92C]

Hey guys, I'm new to these forums! I saw this thread and just had to make an attempt, so here it is. (Keep in mind that I'm still very new to graphic design and don't have much skill, so that's why it isn't better )

Side-by-side comparison:

 

[rvbfan]

Haven't done this in years, forgot how hard it was.
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[PooMan UK]

Soz only found this thread a bit late but here's a quick rendition. Unfortunately like the others say the image is pretty poor quality so it's very hard to work with.
Photo restoration is difficult at the best of times but it does help if the image is scanned at he highest possible res.
Needs allot more work but you get the idea

 

[RAS230]

Can't say how it turned out really but I had o give this a shot...

 

[Willowhoop]

Such a small image to work with. And I am no professional, just a dabbler.
What I did was try to bring out your Dad, and clean him up a little. Lots of noise removed (I hope)
I did it in both color and BW.

 

[johnwillyums]

That's a very good job Willowhoop. There is much less noise on the gentleman's face. Did you use something like NoiseNinja ? John

 

[mitchell65]

Have had another little go at this, don't know if it is any better than my last effort but here it is anyway:

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[gomzi]

Hey Steve,
I would love to edit this picture however, I am on a limited account. I cannot download or open any third party tool because of the websense.
However, I can tell you a tool which can help you in a better way.
The software is called "Photoscape" and it is really easy to use. It has some of the unique plugins and features which no other softwares have.

Here is the link for the same :
PhotoScape Download - Softpedia

After installing it, open the program and choose "editor" from the options layout
Drag and drop the picture and start editing it.
The best tweaks in the software are "Bloom" and "Background light"..Don't forget to use those options and do upload the final picture...

 

[Willowhoop]

That's a very good job Willowhoop. There is much less noise on the gentleman's face. Did you use something like NoiseNinja ? John

I've never heard of NoiseNinja John... I'm a professional tuber who works for a few artists. So I used some of my tubing skills in PSPX3. I was going to take the photo into PSCS4, but ran out of time.
I just used my pen & tablet, some softening and default PSPX3 filters. To be truthful, I don't remember which ones, coz I was just playing. I am not used to working with photographs. I usually work with tradition & digital art.
Willow

 

[steve-pressman]

Just a quick thanks to all of you that are still doing the best for my poor old picture, I am extremely grateful to you all.

I think I might have tracked the original down now and will see if I can get it scanned in HI-Res and post it up again.


Steve

 

[Dwarf]

Please do. Remember that the better the quality of the original, the better the results we can get for you.

 

[mitchell65]

A high res scan would be good. We can all have a really good go at it then. Look forward to the new image. Point though, Steve you might find that the high res scan will be a big file size. It might be too big for the Forum as I think the max is 2mb which is not very big for high res scans. You might have to upload it to a server. Make sure if this happens that it doesn'tget reduced by the servers software.

 

[Dwarf]

Remember that the maximum file size for a .png image that can be uploaded to our servers is 2.00 MB. To ensure no problems, make sure that your final image does not exceed 1.95 MB to give a bit of leeway.

 

[mitchell65]

I thought there was a restriction on the file size we could upload to the Forum server but I would suggest that as we are looking for the very best original we can get it would be pity to compress the file in any way just to get the file size down. I am going to guess that if the original photo is professionally scanned then it is going to generate a file size of at least 8Mg. Uploading to a server will then be necessary.

 

[Dom]

Steve could just get a high resolution scan, and of the file size is over 2 mb he can just zip up the contents (8mb max).

 

[mitchell65]

True Dom but a zipped 8mb PNG file is a lot bigger than 2MB!

 

[mitchell65]

Steve
Have just realised that I could steal a march here. We could connect by Team Viewer and you could upload the image to me that way!!!!!!

 

[steve-pressman]

Steve
Have just realised that I could steal a march here. We could connect by Team Viewer and you could upload the image to me that way!!!!!!

That's a great Idea John as soon as I can get my hands on the Picture I will get in touch


Steve

 

[boohbah]

Steve one way for everyone that is keen to have a go to get their hands on the hi res scan,
would be for you to upload it to dropbox and then post the link for us to download.
promise no more wahole prints!