Save my photo?

Hey, could anyone save this old photo I have? Unfortunately, this is the largest size I have available..

Thank you so much for any attempts!

I did a bit of a quickie job on this. It could be done better but it would take much more time.

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It looks like you have scanned the image in - why not just scan it at a higher resolution to make it bigger?

hawkeye60 wrote in post #9330165
I did a bit of a quickie job on this. It could be done better but it would take much more time.

Good work.

Wow thank you so much!

Hawkeye, that's amazing!

Hawkeye.

Could you explain what steps you went through.

Great Job!

I used just the green channel. Essentially it's a lot of cloning, healing, and painting, all done on separate layers. Adding noise as required on the painted areas to match.
The background is mostly new. Various shades on grey applied randomly with a soft brush, blurred, blended and noise added to match the original. A sepia tone at the end.

It could also be colorized... To do it right I'd have to spend a lot more time on it, but this will give you the idea.

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Oh wow! I love what you did to color it! That's amazing, i'll have to read up on how to do that.

Swift1 wrote in post #9366541
...i'll have to read up on how to do that.

Maybe buy this book:

http://www.amazon.com …SIN/0321316274/​futura-20/