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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: Carole in Dallas on Wednesday 19 August 20 17:36 BST (UK)
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Cheery Hello!
As I am making my way through the box of old family photos, I happened upon this photo of this brother and sister. I tried to lighten it but I had little luck. I would love your help with this cute little photo.
Thanks ever so much!
Also - Please take a look at the photo of the little girl which is photo 3 in this message. I have inserted this jpeg photo into a word document adding the writing from the back of the photo and framing it with a black border. When I do a snip-it of the photo from the word document saving it as a jpeg, the resolution is 49 kb. This size is too small to reproduce as a 8 x 10 photo and too small to add to an online family book that I might to produce to give to my extended family. Any ideas on how I can get this look without losing the resolution? Thanks for your help. Your expertise is truly appreciated!
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I printed the little girl Frederica Washburn on a full A4 sheet of ordinary paper and it prints
beautifully
The photo is actually 1.3 mb
Printed on good quality paper with a good printer and you will have a picture to be
proud of Carole. P.S the aspect ratio would give a print of 6.33 inches wide x 10 inches.
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I didn't print the picture of the girl, but just pasted it into a publishing program and it was 5.5 inches by 9. Try using the original picture (the one posted here) and you should have better luck.
As for the other picture, I tried to lighten it, too, but didn't have much luck. I'll post it anyway. :)
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Had a try
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5x7 photo
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larger edition
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One from me
Pat
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Hi Carole, if you had a go at lightening it then can I presume you are OK with Cut, Copy and Paste.
Here's my attempt to lighten the couple. All Tools look at the whole picture and there is way too much near blackness so I removed it and Hey Presto! ... it's much easier to ... well, it's a case of 'Stand back and let your mother see the rabbit, as my old dad would say, if he was still alive '.
Of course, now you know this you can do it yourself. Simply run the select pointer around the figures as close as you can ( easier if you X 300 first) and while they are selected apply you choice of Lightening'. I use LEVELS and first choose Auto to see the results, if not good enough, I Reset it and play with the sliders to both Lighten the lights and Darken the darks until I'm satisfied with the results.
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I magnified pic 3 by 200% and it looked fine but clearly showed 'scratches' in the background. Clone Stamp Tool hid them. I magnified by 300% and some pixellation appeared around the caption at the bottom which I tidied up a wee bit, and under her left cheek / chin their was some shade separation so I Clone Stamped it away too.
There was still colour info in your pic to which I applied Black & White effect, then used Level tool to improve the definition and Saved As a *.png file and I think it would Print well on Glossy Photo Portrait paper.
If you have the original, scan it again and save as TIFF or PNG until you have finished 'Improving it' and only then change the file format to Jpg or Jpeg but only if you need to Reduce the File size as Compression losses diminish the quality of the end result.
Cheers, Ian
BTW, who really killed JFK?
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Was it Cliff Barnes ?
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" BTW, who really killed JFK? "
Watch ' The Umbrella Academy ' ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Thanks ever so much! YOU are all doing a wonderful job.
I am interested in posting the little boy and girl and tried to get them to look good. They were so dark. I had worked on the little girl with the black frame and thought I did an ok job with her. The little guy and his sister turned out all blotchy when I tried to lighten and darken.
Thanks all!
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The little girl and boy are in front of the house that our relatives lived at.
This box of photos that was given to me is quite a treasure! My mother did not really have any photos of the family. And it has been GREAT fun finding these!
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Lovely photos and arent you lucky that someone took the time to label them
What a great job everyone has done on them
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Just a bit of tinkering :D
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I enlarged this to 300dpi longest length 2500px and also done some minimum restoration, file size has increased just under 500kb so I can post here.
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a quick restore of this one, tried not to overdo it with noise reduction so to much detail wont be lost. unfortunatley I had to compress this so I can upload to this forum
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And a TinT :D :D
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At first glance this might look as if the Colour Hue is too high, but if you are printing it off then your printing process will probably reduce the hue ... if not, I'll post another copy I have which is Less Colourful. You can always Crop the children and Paste them over my fuzzy versions .. as my main concern here was to lighten the setting, cheers, Ian
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Hello All!
I am so happy and thrilled to see these wonderful photos you have restored. Every time I look at them I am fighting back tears of joy. My mother's brother was supposed to be the "keeper" of all of the family treasures. Most of the family relics were supposed to go to a historical society, but the woman who was put in charge of his estate said the valuable relics disppeared. If you Google "The Flight of the Rooster by Firth Haring Fabend", you can read the pdf of what happened. All of the family treasures were lost when he died since he never married.
This is why I was delighted when a 3rd cousin said I could have her box of photos that had been handed down. And because of all of you, these photos are alive and vibrant once again.
Many thanks with sincere gratitude.
Carole
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The little girl is gorgeous :)