Vintage repair

[ggt1_02]

This picture is a friend from work. As you can see the original was pretty messed up. I removed the scratches and tears and sharpened slightly with a high pass. I plan on printing it for him also. Can anyone see any thing else I may have missed. Honest C&C please.

Mike

http://mdrake.smugmug.com/photos/434265519_dhsUe-L-1.jpg http://mdrake.smugmug.com/photos/434265496_fKTSX-L.jpg

[maximus78_06]

I think you did a great job taking those scratches out of there. How long did that take you?

[Jim G]

Nice work removing the scratches! Looks good.

[hawkeye60]

Looked a little dark to me, and I did some noise reduction.

[ggt1_02]

Thanks everybody. It took about two hours to get it clean. I had not thought about noise reduction. Thanks.

[Apollo11]

Looks great. Add a tiny bit of contrast to Hawkeye's edit, and it should be complete.

[Mike-DT6]

Nice work on both edits, but I think it would be better with a little less overall noise reduction, or maybe just used selectively.

Mike

:-)

[PhotosGuy]

Good job! I like it better with the grain.

[FlyingPhotog]

Great repair job.

I think the NR happy medium is somewhere between the OP and Hawkeyes tweak.

It needs bit of grain for some "bite" but it would benefit from being smoothed some.

[wem]

I think the NR happy medium is somewhere between the OP and Hawkeyes tweak.


+1. I think you did an excellent job on removing those scratches! And I think the noise is not really an issue when you want to print it, so a little noise reduction might be sufficient.

[Metalstrm]

I prefer the original edit with the noise included. Gives it a great movie-like quality. Great work! I'm curious as to how long it took you to fix the guy's pants. That bit looks quite a bit difficult.

[hecster]

good job on the resto!

[Nathan]

I think the noise reduction goes too far, especially on the left arm... but the original photo could use a little noise touch up. Keep the grain.

[ggt1_02]

Thanks everyone. I am toying with some NR, but can't quite get it where I want it yet.

[joedlh]

I used despeckle, unhsarp mask, levels, and +10 contrast in Elements.

[civicseth]

The OP did a great job. The rest of you kind of lost a lot of detail doing the stuff you did.

[ggt1_02]

I think I have it where I like it. I hit it with a little NR everywhere but the fine details. Adjusted the levels and sharpened with high pass of 2.8. I think the rest of the grain will even out when printed. Thanks to everyone again.

http://mdrake.smugmug.com/photos/435341192_gV8p5-L.jpg

[Nathan]

any way that you can sharpen up just the leftmost portion of the photo? including the MY and the floor boards... maybe overlay the photo with a gradient layer mask applying USM plus some levels and saturation. something like this:

I uploaded the PSD file to my rapidshare premium account, so you can turn on and off the layers. It's easier to see the difference that way:
http://rapidshare.com/files/173014265/435341192_gV8p5-L.psd

[neumanns]

GGT1...Great minds think alike!

I took your original repaired image and did some tweaks to my licking. And then I didn't bother to post it because I realized it was almost identical to your edit to post's above.

And to that note I would like to say...Nice edit :lol:

[ggt1_02]

Reign... Thanks for the gradient idea. I think I have it about as good as my skill can get it.

http://mdrake.smugmug.com/photos/435813351_x868n-L.jpg