Some help with an old polaroid: This picture is 40 years old and was just sent to me by my old fishing buddy from Montan as a reminder of how stupid we were. Mistakes were made here...

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Some help with an old polaroid

Dec 1, 2022 12:19:57 #

ggttc Loc: TN

This picture is 40 years old and was just sent to me by my old fishing buddy from Montan as a reminder of how stupid we were. Mistakes were made here

Any help

Thanks

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Dec 2, 2022 08:09:03 #

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

ggttc wrote:

This picture is 40 years old and was just sent to me by my old fishing buddy from Montan as a reminder of how stupid we were. Mistakes were made here

Any help

Thanks

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Dec 2, 2022 08:18:37 #

Jimmy T Loc: Virginia

ggttc wrote:

This picture is 40 years old and was just sent to me by my old fishing buddy from Montan as a reminder of how stupid we were. Mistakes were made here

Any help

Thanks

IMHO the original file is too small (<1mp) and the pic is way out of focus, and has motion blur.
The pic attached is a default rinse through Topaz Gigapixel AI and Photo AI.
It seems that even Topaz can't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
I'm sorry but the face was poorly interpolated?
Best Wishes,
JimmyT Sends

PS: Perhaps the PS/LR Folks may do better?

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Dec 2, 2022 11:20:06 #

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Jimmy T wrote:

IMHO the original file is too small (<1mp) and ... (show quote)

Looks to me like you guys did good.

Dec 2, 2022 18:40:37 #

ggttc Loc: TN

Wow! Thanks!

Now can you fix that stupid expression on my face!!!

Dec 2, 2022 18:41:46 #

ggttc Loc: TN

Thanks you! Much better than when i tried

Dec 2, 2022 19:19:36 #

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

ggttc wrote:

Wow! Thanks!

Now can you fix that stupid expression on my face!!!

How is that?

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Dec 3, 2022 21:43:07 #

Jim-Pops Loc: Granbury, Texas

My Quick Try

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Dec 4, 2022 10:02:21 #

ggttc Loc: TN

Jim-Pops wrote:

My Quick Try

Thanks. It colorized pretty nice.

Dec 4, 2022 19:41:49 #

terryMc Loc: Arizona's White Mountains

This is without any artificial colorization; I just pulled out what I could of the original color. I think it's pretty obvious from the replies that the Topaz stuff that so many rave about can't really work the miracles that their ads claim. I rarely use them, and when I do it's only with a mask, and then I usually fade the result in Photoshop.

Gigapixel, DeNoise and Sharpen AI are artifact factories, especially with faces, and more especially when the file is so small and out of focus. Here I used a small amount of motion blur correction in Sharpen AI and even with a mask, it made a mess of the face, and couldn't fix the wiggly branch.

Dec 9, 2022 08:08:29 #

Kevin.M Loc: Forked River, NJ

Sodapop; Can you explain what you did to the photo?

~Kevin

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