anyone able to repair this...

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It's a picture that my kid got a hold of and wrinkled pretty badly. I managed to smooth most of it out, but as you can see alot still showed up in the scan. I don't have photoshop, nor the skills to use it so I can't fix it myself. Anyone wanna take a shot at it and sharpen their skills?

 

[Joves]

Photo repair isnt really my thing but, I gave it a wack. I usually only do post processing.

 

[Lethal]

If you really want a decent repair job, you would need to provide a much higher rez/sized pic. There's only so much you can do with a 117K JPG at 560x784. Can your scanner save to PSD or TIFF or BMP? Anything's better than JPG, as it's a lossy format and the quality deteriorates with each "save".

I'm not volunteering, mind you. But I have worked with a lot of old photos from the Korean War era. You need to be able to zoom in far enough to work with the clone tool on practically a pixel by pixel basis. A Wacom tablet really helps with that.

As long as major details are not destroyed (like parts of the face missing, for example), a "good" restoration job could take several hours. It all boils down to what you want to do with the "restored" pic. If it's just for posting on a web site, that's one thing. If you want to get a high quality printout from it, that's another entirely.

 

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If you really want a decent repair job, you would need to provide a much higher rez/sized pic. There's only so much you can do with a 117K JPG at 560x784. Can your scanner save to PSD or TIFF or BMP? Anything's better than JPG, as it's a lossy format and the quality deteriorates with each "save".

I'm not volunteering, mind you. But I have worked with a lot of old photos from the Korean War era. You need to be able to zoom in far enough to work with the clone tool on practically a pixel by pixel basis. A Wacom tablet really helps with that.

As long as major details are not destroyed (like parts of the face missing, for example), a "good" restoration job could take several hours. It all boils down to what you want to do with the "restored" pic. If it's just for posting on a web site, that's one thing. If you want to get a high quality printout from it, that's another entirely.

No this is for a website for sharing with family. If I was to make prints I'd definately have a pro do it. But this is the only photo that's badly wrinkled like that. The others are coming out okay except for one other one that speckles badly when scanned, but it's a dark photo.

I can save it in TIFF or BMP and the scanner goes up to 1200DPI (optical). This was scanned at 200dpi with jpg settings at high quality.

EDIT: WOW. I just rescanned it with 1200dpi and TIFF and disable hardware JPEG compression and enabled 48bit scanning. Final file size is 188.73MB and resolution is 4720x6988. I'll just toy with it myself for a while. That'd be a bitch to try and share with someone on my 256k uplink.