Can you help fix this picture?

wonder_lander

wonder_lander

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My mum passed away 10 months ago and we are looking to buy her a memorial for her and my Grandma and Grandad.

We can have a 7x5 picture plaque placed on the memorial and so I went off to look for a photo of the three of them. This was the best picture that we could find and shows everyone smiling and happy on a summers day.

I've scanned it in but am not skilled enough to fix it.

I would be ever so grateful if someone where able to enhance the picture and produce a better crop bearing in mind it's intended purpose. I would guess a head and shoulder crop of them all would be ideal if possible.

Anyway here's a resized version and below it is the original scanned version.

croped.jpg


Link to full size image http://www.the-pier.co.uk/ocuk/Scan10002.JPG

High res scan 10MB http://www.the-pier.co.uk/ocuk/highres5.jpg
 
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scan10002.jpg


Overdone it I think but that was a quick play in lightroom..

Is that the maximum dpi of the scanner??
 
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Thanks for giving it a go. I will have a play with the scanner as I've not really used it since I got it. It's a canon CanoScan 4400F so will see what it can do!
 
Im so so sorry to hear about you lose! I know it must be such a hard thing to go through! Ive given it all my best for you and this was done on photoshop 7. I have the full version as well if you would like it!
Take care and best wishes :)

Scan10002s.jpg
 
Thanks to everyone who has had a go so far.

I will try and rescan the picture at a higher dpi tomorrow to hopefully get a better source image. Really can't thank you guys enough.
 
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Ive tried to remove the colour cast. and to remove the shadows on your grand parents faces. But because the quality was so low, when i tried to restore the detail it wasnt really possible, and as such im not sure if this is to soft now.
I have left the dimesnions as they were so you can crop how you want too.

If you can wait till im at work (weekend) where i have a much better computer i can texturise their faces with real skin, and enhnace the detail a lot further hopefully.

test11.jpg


I have al the psd files if you want higher res
 
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OK the original was at 300dpi and I have now done it again at 1200dpi. The resulting jpg is 10mb and can be found here *Updated after cleaning glass on scanner!

Hope this is a better source image and thanks again for all those willing to help
 
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wonder_lander said:
OK the original was at 300dpi and I have now done it again at 1200dpi. The resulting jpg is 10mb and can be found here

Hope this is a better source image and thanks again for all those willing to help
Click to expand...

Any chance u can glass polish yer scanner ...so much dust on that large scan .. i guess at the ress u will use it at will be fine but loads of specs on it .

Persil
 
Slightly too airbrushed on the faces on that one. Maybe try get rid of the kind of haze over the image too, darken/lighten areas.
 
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