Retouching photo of my dad

[aardwolf204]

This is a scanned image of my late father, a photographer, that I am restoring. He served as a war photographer in Korea and later ran his own camera shop/studio. I'm guessing this is my dad in his 20's so the print could be 40-50 years old (died at 75 2 years ago). The image is an 8x10 that has seen far better days from his portfolio, but its one of the only photos I have of him so I'm hoping I can photoshop this up and hang it on my wall. I scanned the original at 600 ppi so I shouldn’t have much trouble printing at 8x10, actually in its current form I can get a 20x16 @ 300 dpi but I think I'll have to down sample this to 8x10 considering that’s what the original print was(?).

Aside from healing away the ink I've desaturated and equalized the photo. I think the equalize might have made the photo too dark but it might just be my screen, too bad I don’t have a photo printer to calibrate with.

Has anyone else tried this? Should I be able to get a 20x16 even though the original is a 8x10? Can you see any of the ink in the touched up shot? Would any other filters help this? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Darren D. Kitchen

[OviV]

I think you did a good job. I like the contrast on the picture. Did you mean to get rid of the sepia? I imagine you did and you did so well. As far as print size, it all depends on how much graininess you are willing to put up with. However, it would probably be best to printed at its original size.

Ovi