Restore old photos

[Runmonty]

good job AT. I see what you mean about looking plastic.

Out of interest - Do you mind me asking what tools you used for this? I think a noise removal tool such as dfine will remove a lot of the "texture" without sacrificing too much detail

I find the "spot healing brush" tool works really well in removing the dust and other spots. There are still few spots (especially in her hair) that could benefit from the use of this tool as well

I can do a real quick 2 min edit of the first one to show you if you like?? Let me know

the second one looks like it tough with all that cracking.

[theantiquetiger]

Feel free to do as you please. What sucks about the first one is I scanned a print out of a scan that looks like it was printed on a dot matrix printer. As for detail, most of the detail is already missing in the second one.

I did all of this work in Lightroom.

[Runmonty]

I only spent a couple of minutes on it.

all I did was use dfine on default settings and then spot healing brush on some of the dust and top lip. Then a little bit of sharpening to the eyes (or I could have masked the dfine layer)

[theantiquetiger]

I like the edit but I think I like the "plastic" skin more than the Dot-Matrix lines on her face. Unfortunately, one of those two things will have to be sacrificed, either lines on the face or plastic skin.