My toughest challenge yet, Any ideas?

[jon1996]

I got me a good one here, I wanted to post it here to get some ideas of how savable this picture is, let me know,

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...eAddington.jpg

[Ed_L]

I didn't download it, but did you check out the individual channels? BTW, welcome to RP.

Ed

[palomino]

is the glared portion due to scanning or is the image really blown out over the right person's face?

-Kate

[jon1996]

i just looked at each channel, the blue contains no information and the red has the most information of the man at least, I am stumped on this one as to where to go with it, it hung for over 70 years over a coal burning stove, and most of the damage was from coal dust, the photo is blown out, and it is not due from scanning,
thnaks,
jon

[mistermonday]

Hi Jon,
This image is in pretty bad shape. The blue channel is completely dead. Area over Nancy's face is completely blown out and there is virtually no data. You can do a individual curves adjust on the R & G channels to recover as much detail as is there. I duplicated and flipped William's right eye to make a left eye (if you can really call it that). If you have another image you might be able to replicate from the likeness but I don't think your going to get much more detail out of this one.
Regards, Murray

[jon1996]

Well I posted this in the wrong forum so I put it here also, I looked at the channels, Blue has nothing and red has the most detail on the man, I did a quick levels adjustment and got a tad of detail form th eman but nothing other than that, I think the woman is lost forever in the photo, If anyone has a good technique for this kind of damge please share it, This picture hung over a potbelly coal stove for 2 generations,
thanks,
jon

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...reAddington.jpg

[mistermonday]

Jon, I had already responded to the image in the previous forum.
Regards, Murray

[jon1996]

I figured it was a lost hope to do anyhting with this picture, As much technology we have today, there is still a boundrie, And I belive this is it in photos,
thanks,
jon

[Ed_L]

When I clicked on the link, here's what I got:
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You may find more results by using AND, NOT, OR terms in your query.

Ed