Help on a special photo

This is an older photograph of a woman who is no longer with us. I'd like to improve upon it but I'm limited with my expertise and software. If anyone would be willing to give it shot, I would so appreciate it! Just PM your address! Thanks in advance.

Is this a scan, and if it is do you have the negative?

I might have the negative some place, would that be a better way of going about this?

Justiss wrote in post #10323102
I might have the negative some place, would that be a better way of going about this?

Absolutely, as long as it has been stored in a negative envelope and is relatively free of dust and scratches.

Take the negative to a high quality photo lab that will do a high resolution scan on a proper negative scanner. The resulting jpeg will be around 35 MB in size from a good scanner. Also note that if you get it scanned as TIFF (lossless) it will be several times this size but you'll need a decent computer to be able to post process it.

You'll end up with an image with a ton more resolution, detail and dynamic range to start with. The colors should also be better, but if the negative is old you will still need to do some editing in Photoshop since there will be some fading and color shifts.

Thanks Bob, I appreciate the info.