Photoshop request Please

sniperone

sniperone

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Not sure if this is the correct thread to post in so apologies if its wrong.

Could someone clean up this photo if its possible

The picture is of my great great grandad in the cockpit of his WW1 RAF Biplane at dover in 1916

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I don't mean to be harsh or disrespectful, but there are professionals that will do this for you at very little cost to a far far greater standard than you will receive from this forum.
I would bet if you go on fiver or PPH and set your price limit of say £10 or £20 quid someone will restore that to perfect clarity and colourise it for you too.
 
Its not disrespectful at all ,I have seen some restoration work completed by a few members here before and it was pretty good . I was also unaware of those sites and have signed up and posted there .
 
I'm rubbish at photoshop so I can't help but that is a great photograph :). I love WW1 and WW2 history stuff. I hope someone does it for you.
 
sniperone said:
Its not disrespectful at all ,I have seen some restoration work completed by a few members here before and it was pretty good . I was also unaware of those sites and have signed up and posted there .
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I just don't think you will get the quality it deserves without a ittle funding.
 
Did you scan that yourself? I'd recommend re scanning if possible at something like 1200ppi. For archive purposes 600ppi is more than enough for 6x4 photos which gives an 8.6 megapixel image, but when editing its best to work at max possible resolution.

Also when scanning try to get it perfect rotation, rotating in software causes pixels to become misaligned or interpolated.
 
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Not my best work as I've had a spare 10 mins between jobs. Quick repair job, I've not touched the lighter side, mainly because I've not got time but I think it's supposed to be part of the image, hanger doors open.

I'd get much better results if I scanned it it myself, this version has quite a few graphical issues.

The trick is to keep them looking old while repairing the damage. Not smoothing too much out etc.
Original repaired:

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asim18 said:
Did you scan that yourself? I'd recommend re scanning if possible at something like 1200ppi. For archive purposes 600ppi is more than enough for 6x4 photos which gives an 8.6 megapixel image, but when editing its best to work at max possible resolution.
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I did scan it myself but my scanners limit is only 600ppi sadly . Would taking a picture with a camera give a better result ?
 
AHarvey said:
Not my best work as I've had a spare 10 mins between jobs. Quick repair job, I've not touched the lighter side, mainly because I've not got time but I think it's supposed to be part of the image, hanger doors open.

I'd get much better results if I scanned it it myself, this version has quite a few graphical issues.

The trick is to keep them looking old while repairing the damage. Not smoothing too much out etc.
Original repaired:

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slight darken all over:
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Thank you that is really good . Now i see what is possible in 10 minutes i will defiantly get this restored professionally.

The origonal picture is very small 3" x 2.5" so its been blown up pretty big im not sure much more detail could be recovered from it .
 
sniperone said:
I did scan it myself but my scanners limit is only 600ppi sadly . Would taking a picture with a camera give a better result ?
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600ppi is absolutely fine, a camera won't give better result, if you scanned at max resolution then just upload the original file from the scanner. The one you have uploaded in the opening post has been shrunk down it's not 600ppi any more.
 
sniperone said:
I did scan it myself but my scanners limit is only 600ppi sadly . Would taking a picture with a camera give a better result ?
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Don't worry about it. Scanning at such high resolution will often bring up the grain of the paper or add a lot of noise and make life harder for the person retouching it.
 
asim18 said:
600ppi is absolutely fine, a camera won't give better result, if you scanned at max resolution then just upload the original file from the scanner. The one you have uploaded in the opening post has been shrunk down it's not 600ppi any more.
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It was a heavy crop .The picture is very tiny .
 
ChroniC said:
Don't worry about it. Scanning at such high resolution will often bring up the grain of the paper or add a lot of noise and make life harder for the person retouching it.
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Scanning at 600 dpi will not generate more noise lol, that's not how noise is generated. In fact it allows dust and scratches to be FAR more easily, and better, isolated from the image.

And this is the difference between an amateur job and professional work. If you're going to be using a professional it is best to provide them with the best possible scan. You need to take into account re-printing as well.
 
asim18 said:
Scanning at 600 dpi will not generate more noise lol, that's not how noise is generated. In fact it allows dust and scratches to be FAR more easily, and better, isolated from the image.

And this is the difference between an amateur job and professional work. If you're going to be using a professional it is best to provide them with the best possible scan. You need to take into account re-printing as well.
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No but scanning at +1200 will. Old school negatives and prints used silver nitrate to expose the image. This very often is visible at high scan resolutions, it does make the image a higher resolution by scanning like that, but more often than not with a low quality very old image it makes the imperfections far more noticeable without any benefit to the sharpness or quality of the image.
 
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Made a start on colourising it, before realising how unbelievably time consuming it is.

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