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Title: Double Exposure of Aunt May
Post by: Cotton Reel on Wednesday 23 May 18 19:42 BST (UK)
Dear Restorers,

 This is a photograph of my Aunt May, my guess is it was taken around 1930ish. May had beautiful natural dark red hair in her youth and green eyes, her skin was fair with a few light freckles.

 I'm not sure who the other lady is....so I'm hoping that it is possible to make two separate images.

 I think this is rather a rather tricky one, and could well be asking rather a lot! I'd
be very pleased though, if you do give it a go.
Title: Re: Double Exposure of Aunt May
Post by: Trishanne on Thursday 24 May 18 12:39 BST (UK)
I have given May a new background, I can't make out the other lady I'm sorry.
Pat
Title: Re: Double Exposure of Aunt May
Post by: japeflakes on Thursday 24 May 18 13:01 BST (UK)
 not a lot to go on but could this be the other person?
Title: Re: Double Exposure of Aunt May
Post by: Cotton Reel on Thursday 24 May 18 20:08 BST (UK)
Hello Pat,

 Thank-you for spending time on this. I think you did an excellent job sorting out
May's dress, that couldn't have been easy.


To japeflakes,

 Thank-you for making the face a little clearer of the other lady - still not sure who she is!
Title: Re: Double Exposure of Aunt May
Post by: McGroger on Friday 25 May 18 07:55 BST (UK)
Hi, Cotton Reel.
To help in your identifying of the mystery person in your photo, I've had a go at trying to extract as much as possible of the face. Obviously a lot of my image is made up, the hair and clothing, e.g., and I cloned the left eye to replace a not-really-there right eye. But for the rest of the face I tried to tease out detail while keeping any fudging to a bare minimum. Hope it helps a little.
Peter
Title: Re: Double Exposure of Aunt May
Post by: terry h on Friday 25 May 18 14:36 BST (UK)
Gave it a go.  :-\

Terry
Title: Re: Double Exposure of Aunt May
Post by: Treetotal on Friday 25 May 18 14:46 BST (UK)
Lovely job Terry...Not an easy one..I had a go but I didn't like it so I binned it  :-\
Carol
Title: Re: Double Exposure of Aunt May
Post by: terry h on Friday 25 May 18 15:47 BST (UK)
It got close to entering the recycle bin Carol.  :P ;D ;D

Terry
Title: Re: Double Exposure of Aunt May
Post by: Cotton Reel on Monday 28 May 18 21:54 BST (UK)
Hello Peter and Terry,
 
 Thank-you for having a go at sorting out the images. You have both done extremely well, it certainly must take time and patience to get the results you have given me.

 I think the other lady could be Florence, who was my great aunt. Here is a photograph of her taken at a later date. Do you think it could be her?
Title: Re: Double Exposure of Aunt May
Post by: McGroger on Monday 28 May 18 22:25 BST (UK)
Florence gets my vote. :)
Peter