Hello,

i have a very old picture of my mum, but it is very crumpled. I tested a lot of things, but I'm incompetent to remove the breaks.
Can anybody help me with this problem?

Thanks a lot.

Best regards, Mondfee.

click to see the picture (http://www.margy.de/bilder/20.jpg)

I'm assuming that you scanned the picture? First thing I would do is go back and rescan it with "descreen" turned on in your scan software. This should help remove the paper texture.

I'm not really sure, if it's correctly now. I didn't find a option called descreen in my software. :(

click to see picture (http://www.margy.de/bilder/21.jpg)

Sometimes you have to click around to find it. I know with my Epson software it isn't always there it hides under the "unsharp mask" check box and sometimes I have to click that on and off several times to get descreen to come up.

I spent a little time on this, but was unable to completely do the whole photo. There is a texture in the paper so I ran it through an FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) filter. It did reduce the texture a little.

Mostly cloning and healing brush. A little contrast adjustment--it may not be right and then a third party airbrush filter. If no one submits a finished copy I will try to complete this later today.

dc

Wow that looks very brilliant. Thank you very much.

You can do amazing things by scanning the image upright, then turning it 90 degrees and scanning again and then combining the two images.

When the scanner light passes over the cracks, it creates shadows and that's why the cracks show up so much. By turning the picture and then scanning again, the "shadows" appear differently and when you combine the images, they cancel each other out.

It's easier to do than it is to explain LOL

Take care, Margaret

47567
Maybe someone can do a little more with it :) Sorry so blurry.

It looks like a painting, but it's very nice. Thank you very much.

I ran this through my FFT filter, and it did a pretty good job of cleaning it up. I did a small amount of clean up on one side of the face. and it doesn't look too bad. Still this might look better if there was a good hi-res scan. I can scan it for you and do the clean up if you don't have the equipment. Send me a pm if your interested.

the healing brush usually works amazing on such things like this

My final efforts on this. At least improved over the original.

dc

A big thanks to all of you. You achieve awesome conclusions. I'm very happy about your help and so lucky because the picture is now good enough for me.

Best regards from Germany
Mondfee

Far from perfect, the hair would need a lot more work, but its a start.

Peter

I reconstructed the background. Used levels, healing brush, clone tool, and painted various areas.

ok, this took a while. almost all clone and airbrush. just a little clarify and brightness/contrast.

you can get this result in minutes using the spothealbrush type proximity match, i know it's far away goal, but good start i think

great result Craig!

saby

Very nice Craig. I like the contrast you used.

Just a little dimension loss in the neck area.

Everyone did a nice job on this photo. I took a different approach. I did the restoration trying to keep the original paper texture on the photo. i did remove it but didnt like the results i got so i added back in the texture of the paper to the photo and it seemed to me to make it look better. But thats just me.

thanks, saby, chillin. yes, i see it now, chillin.

interesting choice, unimatrix. sort of looks like old magazine print, that old duotone print look.

Well... it could still be improved, but for now my patience ran out. Maybe in a few months I’ll pick it up again & finish it.

What a beautiful young lady. This is an image well worth taking a lot more time than I did over it.

lookin good, chillin. a bit spotty here and there yet, but excellent so far.

just messing around on vacation not much to do... thought i would try and colorize this picture. I had no idea what the colors should have been so i just added my own take for them. Still havent figured out the colorization procedure yet but it will come.

unimatrix, not bad for 'just messin around'. :) maybe a little more color in the skin?

Thought I'd give this a try, but ended up taking me all night. If I ever end up playing with photos for a living I am going to have to charge so much more than I thought. Either that or find a faster way of working
Long way from perfect, and still having real trouble doing hair tho.
Hope this is ok, Mondfee