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Title: Photo restoration please of my maternal grandmother Martha
Post by: pacaine on Sunday 17 May 15 11:41 BST (UK)
This is a photo of my maternal grandmother and the only one in existence.  The image is very poor and maybe beyond repair but it's all we have.
Many thanks

Title: Re: Photo restoration please of my maternal grandmother Martha
Post by: restorer45 on Monday 18 May 15 15:40 BST (UK)
Cheers,
Title: Re: Photo restoration please of my maternal grandmother Martha
Post by: pacaine on Tuesday 19 May 15 13:56 BST (UK)
Many thanks.

Title: Re: Photo restoration please of my maternal grandmother Martha
Post by: pacaine on Wednesday 20 May 15 13:30 BST (UK)
I was hoping that some Photoshop wizard would be able to restore the image to as close as possible to it's original monchrome state.  Maybe this is not possible in this case.
Title: Re: Photo restoration please of my maternal grandmother Martha
Post by: sarah on Wednesday 20 May 15 15:31 BST (UK)
Hi Pacaine,

This is the best I could do..... The image is lacking a lot of the information needed tow work with :-\

Regards

Sarah
Title: Re: Photo restoration please of my maternal grandmother Martha
Post by: cazza59 on Wednesday 20 May 15 17:41 BST (UK)
Not the best I'm afraid, but it's about the best I can make out.  Also I don't want to resort to drawing in the features and making it up, as you wouldn't be getting a true representation.  :-\


Caz
Title: Re: Photo restoration please of my maternal grandmother Martha
Post by: pacaine on Wednesday 20 May 15 19:30 BST (UK)
Many thanks Sarah and Caz - that's more like what I was hoping for.  The original is faded almost to nothing, and increasing the resolution of the scan only seems to add more noise.
Title: Re: Photo restoration please of my maternal grandmother Martha
Post by: SMG on Sunday 31 May 15 21:48 BST (UK)
Hello
I know you originally posted this a couple of weeks ago but thought I'd have a go at this one too. I've tried to keep it as original as possible and managed to bring back a tiny bit of the detail - I hope I have managed to bring back a little of the 'essence' of you great grandmother at least.
SMG x
Title: Re: Photo restoration please of my maternal grandmother Martha
Post by: pablo59 on Sunday 31 May 15 22:52 BST (UK)
heres one
Title: Re: Photo restoration please of my maternal grandmother Martha
Post by: pacaine on Monday 01 June 15 09:02 BST (UK)
Thanks SMG - I think that's very close to the original.  Martha died in 1936 when I was just a toddler so have no memory of what she looked like.
Thanks also to Pablo.
Title: Re: Photo restoration please of my maternal grandmother Martha
Post by: sarah on Monday 01 June 15 10:46 BST (UK)
Beautiful work SMG. it was a difficult one.

Sarah :)