any help gratefully accepted

[smurfing]

Hi

I have a family photo that I cannot seem to get anywhere with
I would be extremely gratefull to anyone who could help

Large copy here:-
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/9799/familytime.jpg

Many thanks in advance
Smurf

[jadams007]

what kind of flatbed scanner are you using? Magnified looks like a newspaper print. Also looks like scan lines too. The better the scan, the better the results

[smurfing]

Hi

Thanks for the quick reply
I am using an Epson R620 printer/scanner

The photo is printed on a textured paper

Many thx
Smurf

[Wolfman]

In the setup for scanning is there a descreening choice under filters.... that might help with the texture.

[smurfing]

Hi Wolfman

Thanks for the tips

The actual texture of the photo is no causing my main problems
Most of the problems revolve round
The darkness/blotchiness of some colours plus the cellotape

Smurf

[crazyfly1]

smurf, real quick and dirty, I converted to cmyk-replaced both the c and y channel with m. That took care of most of the spots. From a duplicate of the original I used the eyedropper to sample colors and then painted in on the new image on blank color blend mode layers. Like I said real fast just to give you ideas of what you can do. The light area in running up the mans leg could easily be masked out with a layer set to multiply. Hope this helps.

[smurfing]

Crazyfly

What an improvement already
Very many thanks for taking the time

Smurf

[Quantum3]

What I see harder on this pic is matching the texture when fixing.

[crazyfly1]

Right Quantum3, that's why I did what I did by eliminating channels where the biggest problems were. Also why I suggest a new layer set to multiply to fix the faded areas. That way we are only altering luminance and saturation, not whole pixels. No clone or heal. The sky will be a bit of a problem for the reason you indicate, I don't see a way around that.

[Quantum3]

Originally Posted by crazyfly1

Right Quantum3, that's why I did what I did by eliminating channels where the biggest problems were. Also why I suggest a new layer set to multiply to fix the faded areas. That way we are only altering luminance and saturation, not whole pixels. No clone or heal. The sky will be a bit of a problem for the reason you indicate, I don't see a way around that.

You may mask out the existung sky and replacing it by a new one. I don't know if that's allowed in restoration, not my field, but that's a great solution ^^

[chillin]

Originally Posted by smurfing

Hi Wolfman
Most of the problems revolve round
The darkness/blotchiness of some colours plus the cellotape
Smurf

The tapes problems you could solve by bringing the yellow in sync with the sky color & then use cloning & healing.
In some places, small selective pieces you could separately pass through an fft filter.

[0lBaldy]

Cropped most of the bad stuff out at the top
Used the FFT in Image Analyzer (for windows (free)) on the whole image
Levels
On a new color layer... sampled a good color next to areas/spots I wanted to fix and painted with good color then decided to try using gradient maps for the background, hair, and faces...
some cloning and healing then some final sharpening

[ylwdog]

marked for reference