Great Uncle George

jcasey170 · #1 02-12-2009, 10:06 AM

Hi all, I have a photo of Great Uncle George and it's really messy...
I had a go with it, and the result is ok-ish, but was wondering if anybody else had any ideas. I use PaintShopPro XI by the way. Thanks in advance,

John

bulld0g · #2 02-12-2009, 12:09 PM

im new to this as well i got it to this

http://i43.tinypic.com/xqmi68.jpg

jcasey170 · #3 02-12-2009, 12:15 PM

Thanks Bulld0g, thats certainly better than the orginal! There might be hope for Unc yet hey?

bulld0g · #4 02-12-2009, 12:26 PM

hope so looks a very old photo maybe some of the more experianced can do some work on the area i despeckled a lot but then it distorted the pic and lost the profile so undid that action

jcasey170 · #5 02-12-2009, 12:33 PM

My best educated guess is it was taken about 1880 or so when he was a "Railway Examiner". I've also got one of Amanda his wife but I thought it'd be cheeky to post both of them at the same time! lol!

bulld0g · #6 02-12-2009, 12:35 PM

lol i didnt ive posted most of mine all the better to get help and experiance with

rdk · #7 02-13-2009, 04:25 AM

These my first corrections, so ask about indulgence. I salute
RDK

jcasey170 · #8 02-13-2009, 07:05 AM

Hi RDK, thanks for that, he's really beginning to look something like now

oltenius · #9 02-13-2009, 08:37 AM

Some steps...
Dan

hairydog · #10 02-13-2009, 10:07 AM

hi i'll have a go.... its a great photo

unimatrix001 · #11 02-13-2009, 03:40 PM

Not complete yet still needs alot of work. Cant remember exactly how i got to this but i did some work in lab mode inverting the a and b channels and using calculations with the lightness and a channel and the lightness and b channels to create two new alpha channels. switched back to rgb mode and copied alpha 1 channel and pasted to new layer did the same with the alpha 2 channel then set blending modes to taste. used patch tool to remove most of the mildew came up with this so far.

jcasey170 · #12 02-13-2009, 03:54 PM

Wow, I never thought I'd get so many replies...many thanks to all

I can hardly believe how much better the pic looks!!

Kevin12 · #13 02-15-2009, 08:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jcasey170

Hi all, I have a photo of Great Uncle George and it's really messy...
I had a go with it, and the result is ok-ish, but was wondering if anybody else had any ideas. I use PaintShopPro XI by the way. Thanks in advance,

John

Hey John, Hve you used photoshop?
I think you can do it a lot of graphis works using that....

jcasey170 · #14 02-15-2009, 08:21 AM

Hi Kevin, no I've not used photoshop - too much of a scrooge to pay for it when I've paid for PSP maybe! LOL!

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