Hi everyone totally new to this side of photography and as i suspect for a lot of newbies the first post is a request for help.

A freind has asked me if i could do anything with this photo i have made a few attempts in photoshop but feel like i am getting nowhere could you give me some guidance as to if its even possible to get the pic looking anything like normal.

Many thanks for any help in advance

Paul

Paul,
Can you tell us a little more about the photo type, i.e. color, b&w, factory print, poloroid, what damaged it, what the surface texture is like, etc. This will give us an idea for various approaches. It can always be restored, it's just a matter of which method is better, faster, etc.

what i see is a whole lot of cloning needed. this will not be an easy one to restore. that back light source is also blown out and shld be taken down a notch or two. the good news is that it shld be restorable; it's just going to take quite a bit of work to do.

and welcome to RP.

A pass with Polaroid dust and scratch filter (http://www.polaroid.com/service/software/poladsr/poladsr.html)may get you started in the right direction
~~Original~~~Polaroid~

you did that all with D&S, OB? if so, i'm impressed.

you did that all with D&S, OB?

I do not save these files and I couldn't remember, so I revisited the picture.. I must have plugged in different values this time in the Polaroid Dust and Scratch filter and/or the levels adjustment because it came out a little different but that is all I used on this Pic (Probably took a little bit more time on the first one just to see how good I could get it)

Went to bed thinking about it and remembered that after the Polaroid filter I applied a hide all mask and just spotted the white spots in order to save some of the focus.. I added a sample of just the filter results after spotting the hide all mask below..

I think it looks like a good starting point for a restoration and I am going baack to bed!

Thanks for the advice and retouched images guys far better than i have managed so far . As for the original i doont know much about it apart from it being around 30-35 yrs old and black and white.

Paul

thanks, OB :)

For what it's worth it's probably a Polaroid print; the streaks and spots are the result of incomplete coating.
Not that this helps you any.

Could you possibly provide a link to a larger resolution. The more detail that is seen, the better.