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    Remove glare from photo

    I'm trying to restore this old photo for a friend and can't seem to find a way to remove the bright glare / overexposure across the man. Would appreciate help in doing this - workflow, tools, filters and settings to use. I've tried Camera Raw - dehaze, curves, cloning, light painting but...
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    Removing discoloration, noise, and bluish splotches

    Thanks for the info. I downloaded the color deconvolution plug-in mentioned as one of the solutions in the link you provided. Will see how it works.
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    Removing discoloration, noise, and bluish splotches

    Wow - great job. Thank you so much. I'll try duplicating your work flow and see if I can get results as good as you did. This has always been my achilles heel in restoring old family photos. You've provided me a straight forward work flow to use.
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    Restoring badly discolored image

    Great job, Chris. Did you use the same steps as the second response of did you do somethin different?
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    Removing discoloration, noise, and bluish splotches

    One of the issues I still struggle with when trying to restore an old photo is getting rid of the noise/grain and discoloration. Below is a photo of my great aunt, her 3 daughters and their husbands during WW II. I need help with solving the discoloration, noise & grain along the bottom and...
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    Restoration Gone As Far As I Can

    Thanks ever so much, John. Glad I joined this group to learn from others and improve restpration my skills.
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    Restoration Gone As Far As I Can

    Wow - thanks so very much, John. Like you, I like to try to maintain the era look when restoring old photos. This one had me stumped on how to get the faces to where you could see them better. I like how you used the clone tool to copy the eyes. It improves the facial detail so you can see...
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    Restoration Gone As Far As I Can

    OK Worked on it some more applying suggestions given. Hefty increase in contrast and painted on faces with 15% gray and then dodged & burned on faces. They still look a bit painted. Selected clothes and filled with white at 60% opacity.
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    Restoration Gone As Far As I Can

    Thanks, Babine. I'm not familiar with LUT overlays but assume they add vintage to the photo. The several curve adjustments brought out face detail but also added a lot of noise. That's my quandry - everything that increases face detail adds too much noise. It seems this photo is not easily...
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    Restoration Gone As Far As I Can

    Thanks, iLLuSioN. Adding contrast does add detail to the faces. Maybe I can add contrast and use a mask to apply it only to the faces. Wish there was a way to get all the faces more balance in tone - remove dark gray on some of them.
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    Restoration Gone As Far As I Can

    Thanks for your input, Argos. I tried a few things but none seemed to work. Was hoping someone would know of other Ps tools to use. Like you, I'm not an artist.
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    Restoration Gone As Far As I Can

    I've worked on this photo to repair a long crack and removed a lot of black spots. I can't seem to get more detail & sharpness in the faces and a smoother natural face tone. Can someone do this for me?
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    Suggestions on Where To Start

    Managed to get a 600 dpi scan of the above image and have attached it here (1st pic). Tried to restore it better than the above image but my skills are lacking. Here is what I was able to do with the 600 dpi scan (2nd pic). I'm having trouble with the faces. How can I get them cleaner and...
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    Suggestions on Where To Start

    Thanks, Paul. I used the Smart Filter first and then the High Pass filter to bring back some of the detail. I like the High Pass filter and usually use it at 2 or 3 px. Oh yeah, I used a Screen blending mode with a black mask and the painted over all the white clothes. That really restored...
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    Suggestions on Where To Start

    Thanks, John. My goal is to learn as much as possible about the various restoration techniques for old photos. On this one, I adjusted the levels histogram to improve the tone, then applied 2 or 3 filters to decrease the noise. Then I applied some sharpening filters and used a mask to apply...
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    Suggestions on Where To Start

    Thanks, John. I contacted the lady and she said her cousin in MS had the original. I'll see if she can get him to mail her the original so I can scan it for her. Below is what I was able to do with what I had. Not all that great but from what you're saying there isn't a lot that can be done...
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    Suggestions on Where To Start

    Looking for suggestions on how to restore this old photo. Would it be easier to convert it to B&W to restore it? Lots of noise so I'm thinking blur & noise filters to get rid of noise. What tools & adjustments after that?
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    Specific Assistance with photo repair

    Tom - Stayed with the detail this time. Made repaurs first with Clone tool then used the cracks masking technique to get rid of all the small cracks - primarily in the pajamas. Lastly ran it through Remini app to sharpen the faces. Hope you like these results better. If you're trying to...
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    Specific Assistance with photo repair

    Let me work on it as is tomorrow. If you think it was scanned at 1,200 dpi, then the detail should be good. It looks like it might have had scotch tape across the front at the boy's head.
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    Specific Assistance with photo repair

    At what dpi did you scan the photo, Tom?
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