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[Concisus Cognatus]

I'm working on a photo montage and I need to restore the photo shown below. Is there anyone here who could guide me, recommend a good tutorial site or perhaps even make the repair itself?

[DoublyDan]

I have done some photo restoration in the past but it is timely and not enough pay for a single image. Look on YouTube for photo restoration tutorials....

Here is a quick 3 minute started to bring back some of the details. I just took your photo made a duplicate layer (control +J) then inverted it (control +I) and played with other duplicates to and their blending modes. This is not the final result but a result to help you see where you need to go. He doesn't look happy. This image would be used as a reference that is all.


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[Concisus Cognatus]

Thanks Dan. He's my recently deceased uncle(95 yo) and smiling was a rare thing for him. Thanks for the info I'll look at the yt tutorials.

[photostein]

Depends on what "restore" means. Something like this would take hours to bring back where someone didn't think it was every damaged. What are your expectations for a fix?

[Concisus Cognatus]

Decided to not use it. Thanks for your input.