is it a total loss?

[jesterjeni]

I ran acrost this picture on an old hard drive
the little one standing up is me
the little boy is my brother who I lost in january at the age of 39
I have tryed every trick I know and i am not able to draw out the faces can you help?

[0lBaldy]

A couple quickies from me

If you cannot get enough detail then a painting might work

[jesterjeni]

usually I have something else-another picture to go by....but I havent found any in this age range for us..my sisters little girl will work to help fix her ....I like what you have done ! painting !

[jesterjeni]

using my sisters little girl and a picture of my son
I have arived here
still stumped......

[sector81]

Its a shame that its in such poor condition.

[jesterjeni]

only a handfull of badly damaged pictures survived

[Cupcake]

My try on this Christmas picture.

[jesterjeni]

wow, I like what you have done!very nice

[Nasturtium]

I'm sorry for your loss, 39 is really young.

No, not a total loss. Do you have any pictures of children from your family that bear a resemblance? Maybe you could copy their likeness(es) into this picture?

I think you best bet is to render and B/W from the red channel

my go

[jesterjeni]

the other picture I have is also a nightmare......here it is:

[philbach]

Well on this second picture there just isn't enough information. I cropped and straightened the image
I used a curves adjustment layer and clicked auto which helped
I used Neat Image to decrease the grain.

I don't think this can be restored satisfactorily

[jesterjeni]

I wasnt able to get much from it , I couldnt get any clarity in the faces....most of the pictures I came accrost are like this.

[crazyfly1]

Lots of good tries here. I used the tree lights to figure that the blur was about a 45 degree angle and used smart sharpen. I rebuilt the red channel with the green.

[Der_W]

I used Smart Sharpen, the Distort filter (I'll do a tutorial about this one in a few days probably) and the Unsharp Mask filter to unblur the picture a little.
Next I used some curves to color correct the image (just measured the skin tone of the boy on the right).

[4personnen]

Hi, this is my attempt, I just tried to make it more readable, so, no artistic tries in it.
I sharpen the children a little, blurred the background, a little dodge and burn, a little paint,
reducing noise on the reds...+ color correction.

[jesterjeni]

very nice...I see faces !!

[4personnen]

It should be better with a higher resolution/size...I'll try the other if you like...

[jesterjeni]

that would be great...Im not sure how to send it in a larger resolution

[Florin]

hi. so sorry for your loss.
the first picture you`ve upload, could you have a first hand scanning, without touch it? mean original, as it is. some better resolution, 500-600 dpi?

[jesterjeni]

here is the first picture again....

[jesterjeni]

a re-scan of the second picture as well

[4personnen]

maybe you can use an "imageshack" sort of things, I cannot name others (the one I use is displayed in French), maybe other posters may help?

http://imageshack.us/

[Florin]

You could use http://www.mediafire.com/ for uploadings. This is not an images server, you can upload any kind of file, no matter the size, even some 20, 30, 30 Mb ones. So, you can scan and post a high resolution one. Work over a 70 kb low res picture is difficult.

[Flora]

I worked on the re-scan 0f the second picture.
To minimize the lines, I used:

• Filter>Video>De-Interlace
• Filter>Blur>Motion Blur

My result after these procedures (Attachment 1)

Levels + Sharpening to finish ...

Nothing to write home about ... but at least you can see the faces a bit better

My final result (Attachment 2)

[aartist]

I like Flora's result alot.

...and if Florin gets the mediafire full size image to work on, his too.
And that's without seeing it first!

[jesterjeni]

wow!! I need to learn how to do that!!
I feel like such a novice

[chillin]

First I passed it through an FFT filter, then I worked on "colors".
I think a high resolution scan would help in recovering details.

[Flora]

aartist,

thank you for your feedback!

jesterjeni,

glad I could help .... let me know if you need further help on this.

chillin,

great job! I also started out with FFT, but I found it a bit of a hassle, so I opted for the easier way out ...

[chillin]

Thank you Flora.