Photo Restoration

yep. I have lots of old railroad cut photos from the 1900;s an have used them as outcrop locations on tech papers. I go to a guy who has a photo lab and he does all kinds of magic including sharpening the focus.
That first shot of yours, Id put a machine gun in your great grndaddies arm. Hes all set up fpr a good Jewish Mafia shot.

I can pnly handle Photoshop ELements and I think you need more capabilites. Learning Photoshop is like learning how to run a printing press if you do etching. Let a pro handle it ,It isnt that crazy expensive

That is so funny you should say that about the Mafia. When I was a kid my grandfather told me he and his father had their own limo service in New York and their number one customers were the mafia. I always thought he was teasing me about that but my father always told me it was probably true!

There is quite a few photo restoration places in the area. I think I’ll take a couple in and see what kind of job they do before taking more. I don’t know anyone who can recommend one for me in the area so I’ll just have to test them out myself.

Hi Morgan

A lot depends on the resolution you are scanning in at. The higher the resolution, the better the quality and reduction of pixels.

PS5 can do a lot to assist as you have so many variables to change.

Iff'n you wanna PM or FB a scanned on across to me, I can have a play with it at home... again tho, if poss... increase the scan resolution.

Good luck. Old captures can be the most precious.

Love to our 2.5 men x

Yes, do it!

No tinkering from me but I had a photo of my long deceased uncle of questionable character, whom I liked, reprinted - I forget how, as this was pre photoshop. The original might or might not have been taken by my father who was a photographer, and was printed at 10 x 13 or thereabouts, and well faded.
Guessing this was somewhere around 1940.

He sounded sort of like Andy Devine (He came to our place a few times in the early fifties). Resigned from the California Bar in the thirties and went to sea as a freighter captain. The photo is of him with a swordfish quite a bit more than twice his size; I've others of him and my father fishing in a small boat on (I think) the Russian River back around 1920.

Anyway, the improved print is framed, and in my kitchen. A treasure.

Recently I've been trying to figure out how to scan it, down size it, and then post it on a2k.

Hi Izzie, I just bought this printer a month ago. I gave my old one away because I never used a printer at home but lately I’ve been working from home several days a week so I had to go out and get a new one, this one scans, prints, copies and faxes. When I place a photo to scan it only gives me two options, one to scan as a jpg or a pdf. It wasn’t a very expensive printer. It doesn’t give me the option to change the solution at all. Or maybe I just don’t know how to use it properly.