Old Photo Restoration WIP -Tips Plz

[mapper3d]

Hey, im looking for some advice on what else I can do to improve my photo restoration.

The only thing that was done was auto color/tone/contrast. levels and removed cracks. This pretty much the extent of my restoration abilities. Any other advice what can be done to make this better?

Images linked here

http://imgur.com/gallery/FEFno/new

[Modular_Folds]

Re: Old Photo Restoration WIP -Tips Plz

Good morning-
What a wonderful image! I just looked at the image on my desktop and it appears to have been a colorized image and not grayscale...is this correct?
I'd love to know what you have done with this image; I as a learner/hobbyist would of course clean up the boo-boos, maybe desaturate then work "up", restoring the colors that are in the image to brighten them a bit.
Lots of work but worth the time and experience factor.

Cheers

[Leon William]

Re: Old Photo Restoration WIP -Tips Plz

A good restoration is all about seeing things beyond the scratches/damages and rectifying it .

Cleaning and tone correction is the most important part in restoring an image.

I would suggest you to convert the image in to black and white and colorize if you are creating a color image rather than trying to change or improve the colors which is there already.

Also try to sharpen the image using shake reduction tool in the sharpen options.