Restoring / repairing old photos

AFKABartram

In the aftermath to the Remembrance stuff, come across a couple of lovely 9x7 photos of my grandad from 13/5/46 at Hildenheim? Barracks. He was a Sargeant with the King's Royals Rifles and used to teach the others to horse ride.

However, as you can see my mum scrawled all over them with pen when she was a nipper!

No idea on these things, can you get them digitally enhanced, repaired to wipe out the pen scribbles?

Would love to get some repaired copies to give back to my nan.

AFKABartram

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Henry Irving

Via the musuem have been in contact with various "conservators".

I will ask around.

Should as SG3 about his war record

Badger

You can get Pens that will remove the ink, have you googled How to remove pen ink from paper, might be worth a look.

AFKABartram

Badger said:

You can get Pens that will remove the ink, have you googled How to remove pen ink from paper, might be worth a look.

Cheers Badger, Given the sentiment and age of the card, I don't want to play around with them and make it worse. Just wondered more if they could be scanned, then properly altered.

AFKABartram

Cheers HI, funny enough I enquired to Clive a couple of weeks ago, and since come across these.

ken from bexley

Depends if you want to restore the original prints...... or make copies and retouch generally in photoshop.
Any decent graphic designer should be able to help with the second.
There are a few people on here who could help you mate.
Retouching prints by airbrushing, and by brush is a very skilled talent, so as Henry has posted will need someone with that background expertise. Been decades since I did this, by hand, and only dealt with minor blemishes on prints.
Photoshop took the grief out of this with my limited talents.

stilladdicted

Anyone who is skilled in Photoshop will be able to scan the photos and do it for you. Whatever you do, don't apply anything to the actual photo. Your local camera club will mostly likely have someone who can do it. It is quite a lengthy process, about one hour for a small photo isn't unnusual. My skills are not yet good enough otherwise I would willingly have done it.

EastTerrace

I can give them a go for you AFKA. May have to wait until after Xmas some point. though as its manic with the children at the mo.

Dunno how good the scanner is on my printer though, but I (should have) the skills.

blackheathaddick

Same for me. I'd be willing to have a go, but my scanner isn't good, so if you could get a high quality scan done somewhere then you could send the image out, I'm sure a few people with some photoshop skills would be willing to have a go. Me included.

Henry Irving

@CAFC999 might be able to get good scans and clean them up.

So what dark secrets have you discovered in your history?

AFKABartram

Cheers chaps, much appreciated.

Nothing exciting yet H, got one line of family going back to 1600's who originated from Italy. Through the 1800's seemed to be 4 generations of 'picture frame makers'

Henry Irving

1600s is very good going.

AFKABartram

None of my own work I hasten to add !