Hi love the forum.
I would love to know where to start with this.
I have knowledge of photoshop but not of the original print tone should be etc etc.
All comments appreciated as I'm a newbie at restoring.

The pic is of my wifes grandads grandad.

Thank you

Hi Peoples10,

For me, because of the amount of scratches and age on the photo, I couldn't clean it up too much. However, by using the Clone and Heal tools in Photoshop, I was able to remove most of the creases and major imperfections. I did an Auto Levels to darken the photo without too much contrast. I cropped the photo and repaired the large gaps by filling in with a similar background. I used the Dust & Scratches filter to soften the photo. Finally I changed the hue/saturation to a sepia tone. Normally I would keep a photo in the original colour, but since this one had so many different tints, I just went with sepia.

This must be a very old photo!

Good luck with your retouch!

Heather

My version:

Nice Ken! Lots more detail and less blur than I could manage :)

Hi Peoples10,

For me, because of the amount of scratches and age on the photo, I couldn't clean it up too much. However, by using the Clone and Heal tools in Photoshop, I was able to remove most of the creases and major imperfections. I did an Auto Levels to darken the photo without too much contrast. I cropped the photo and repaired the large gaps by filling in with a similar background. I used the Dust & Scratches filter to soften the photo. Finally I changed the hue/saturation to a sepia tone. Normally I would keep a photo in the original colour, but since this one had so many different tints, I just went with sepia.

This must be a very old photo!

Good luck with your retouch!

Heather

Thanks for your info
where the pic is a brown to orange in the original do you think that it was sepia originally.
Yes it is a very old picture

Thanks Steve

My version:

Thanks Steve

What a wonderful picture to work with. When looking for the detail, I saw that on the board with the other watches was the picture of a boy. How one spends their time was important then and now. The skill that this man had was indeed a needed one.

Thank you for sharing.

had a go also. tons of clone and push. some clarify and the rarely used fade correction. also some airbrush on a blank layer.

craig

had a go also. tons of clone and push. some clarify and the rarely used fade correction. also some airbrush on a blank layer.

craig

Thank you for you information
Steve

What a wonderful picture to work with. When looking for the detail, I saw that on the board with the other watches was the picture of a boy. How one spends their time was important then and now. The skill that this man had was indeed a needed one.

Thank you for sharing.


Thanks
can i ask how you got it to the stage you have please

Thanks
Steve

I decided to leave the wall surfaces rough and a few spots and scratches in place. Combined with the platinum paper tone it looks more like an old photo that survived a little bit better than your original.

I desaturated the image to almost black and white, adjusted contrast with several soft light and screen blending layers. Some sharpening with a high pass filter and lots of reconstruction with the heal and clone brushes.

Finally added some grain and re-toned to a platinum brown.

I decided to leave the wall surfaces rough and a few spots and scratches in place. Combined with the platinum paper tone it looks more like an old photo that survived a little bit better than your original.

I desaturated the image to almost black and white, adjusted contrast with several soft light and screen blending layers. Some sharpening with a high pass filter and lots of reconstruction with the heal and clone brushes.

Finally added some grain and re-toned to a platinum brown.

I like it thanks for the info
Steve

Hi there

I know this is an old thread but i am trying to catch up and learn

Butch

Hi there

I know this is an old thread but i am trying to catch up and learn

Butch

Nice work :)

I love that fact that the guys workbench is messy and the gals neat. LOL

I would like to thank you to everybody who has given me input on this picture.

This is my first restoration and without the forum and all the posters input i wouldnt of been able to do it.

So here is my attempt at the restoration and would love any comments on wether it is good or bad

thanks
steve

I think you've done a great job! You've brought out some detail but it still shows its age. :classic:

No others :(

Spot on Steve. I can only echo what Heather said: you have kept it true to its age. Importantly, you haven't oversmoothed it. I like the crop too. I think someone would be very happy with that restoration.

Sincerely Syd

Thank you all :knockedou

All the restore jobs here are great but Daviskw's job is superb. How did you rework this shot? Even the detail on the wallpaper is an excellent added touch.

Jon.

Thank you Jon…I just got lucky on how it came out, that happens sometimes. I think all the other attempts are all great in there own ways.

I am always very basic, I just reworked the tone the best I could. Then like everyone else I used a lot of cloning and healing brush. I just copied rotated and pasted back parts of the workbench and window then did my best to blend them in. I selectively used blur and noise filters but tried to keep as much detail as I could.

I searched the net for turn of the century wallpaper and when I found a piece I liked I copied it in and worked the tone to match then reduced to opacity of the layer to allow some of the old paper to show thru.

To me the biggest challenge was to rid the picture of the milky gray in the shadows. I did this by using a blank layer set to color burn and filled with its neutral color, then with a very low opacity and a large soft brush I gently built up contrast in those areas. It works sometimes by darkening the lighter gray but leaving darker colors mostly unchanged.

Then I added back a little sepia tone.

Butch