Please help with restoration project

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Jake
Jul 8, 2005
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If you don’t mind assisting with a restoration project I’m doing, please view this link: http://home.midsouth.rr.com/mitchellsmith/

This is a late-19th century photo developed at 16×20 inches, and badly damaged over the years. It’s on a heavyweight matte (some type of parchment-feeling surface), glued to carboard (???). I photographed it with a 5mp digital camera outside on a cloudy day.

I’m pretty well-satisfied with where I am on it. For the price I’m charging I cannot work on it forever, and with restorations you are never "done." You just have to find an acceptable point to stop. However, I can invest a little more time in it, and I’d like to spend that time smoothing out the texture of the face. I’ve tried several methods (using PS7, btw), but I haven’t liked the results. The texture of the middle part of his forehead is my goal. Various blurring techniques and adjustment layers over blurred layers create a "puffy" fake look, for lack of a better way of putting it.

All input welcome and appreciated.

Thanks,

jm
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J
JAT
Jul 8, 2005
I haven’t had a chance to look at it yet but have you tried something like CleanSkinFX. I doesn’t always do a good job but sometimes it excels itself!

Alex

"Jake" wrote in message
If you don’t mind assisting with a restoration project I’m doing, please view this link: http://home.midsouth.rr.com/mitchellsmith/
This is a late-19th century photo developed at 16×20 inches, and badly damaged over the years. It’s on a heavyweight matte (some type of parchment-feeling surface), glued to carboard (???). I photographed it
with
a 5mp digital camera outside on a cloudy day.

I’m pretty well-satisfied with where I am on it. For the price I’m
charging
I cannot work on it forever, and with restorations you are never "done." You just have to find an acceptable point to stop. However, I can invest
a
little more time in it, and I’d like to spend that time smoothing out the texture of the face. I’ve tried several methods (using PS7, btw), but I haven’t liked the results. The texture of the middle part of his forehead is my goal. Various blurring techniques and adjustment layers over
blurred
layers create a "puffy" fake look, for lack of a better way of putting it.
All input welcome and appreciated.

Thanks,

jm

K
Kingdom
Jul 9, 2005
"Jake" wrote in
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If you don’t mind assisting with a restoration project I’m doing, please view this link: http://home.midsouth.rr.com/mitchellsmith/
This is a late-19th century photo developed at 16×20 inches, and badly damaged over the years. It’s on a heavyweight matte (some type of parchment-feeling surface), glued to carboard (???). I photographed it with a 5mp digital camera outside on a cloudy day.

I’m pretty well-satisfied with where I am on it. For the price I’m charging I cannot work on it forever, and with restorations you are never "done." You just have to find an acceptable point to stop. However, I can invest a little more time in it, and I’d like to spend that time smoothing out the texture of the face. I’ve tried several methods (using PS7, btw), but I haven’t liked the results. The texture of the middle part of his forehead is my goal. Various blurring techniques and adjustment layers over blurred layers create a "puffy" fake look, for lack of a better way of putting it.
All input welcome and appreciated.

Thanks,

jm

Think that’s the first one I’ve see that I would even start on.

Wish you luck.

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f=Ma well, nearly…

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