1971 photo needs restoring.

3 years 5 months ago #700945 by maurice1950
My wife died a couple of weeks ago after 48 years together and i have a photo that was taken on our wedding day.It is very dark and has some slight age marks.I am asking if anyone has any ideas of where to take it and what the cost may be.If possible i would like to eventually get it enlarged.It does mean a great deal to me so any help would be greatly appreciated,thankyou,Maurice.


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3 years 5 months ago #700956 by Ozzie_Traveller
G'day mate

Not knowing your country / city it is an impossible answer

However, look in your local phone directory for 'photo retouching' and see where it takes you, also, try your local camera club - they often have pretty smart people willling to give something like this a bit of a try

Phil from the great land Downunder
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Phil from the great land Downunder
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3 years 5 months ago #700977 by CharleyL
Not much can be done with that photo. It's quite small and very grainy. When I try to lighten it for you
it looks worse than the original. If you could re-scan the photo at 260-300 dpi, maybe I could do more with it. Also, please do your best to square the photo with the scanner.

Charley




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3 years 5 months ago #701212 by Garbo
Here's what I'd do:

1. Pick up Topaz Labs Gigapixel AI:  topazlabs.com/gigapixel-ai/

Run your photo through this software.

Then print it out on canvas.  Canvas will be more forgiving on stretching out that print.  

Nikon D300: 24-70 2.8 | 70-200 2.8 VR |Sigma 150 2.8 | 50 1.4 | SB-800
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3 years 5 months ago #701356 by CharleyL
I went back and worked a bit more on this photo, but I didn't manage to improve it much. It's just too small and of too low a pixel density to do much with it. There just isn't enough there to work with. 

Charley



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3 years 5 months ago #701359 by Pete Franko
:agree: you might be able to squeeze out a 9x5, but anything larger will be iffy.  

Sorry for your loss.  


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