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[MB]

Final
I hope this is a good combination from all the suggestions!

[Johnboy]

MB

Looks like you have a good start on the restore. I downloaded your image and did a levels adjustment and pulled the ends in a little on the RGB layers. Then I did another levels and clicked OK and changed the mode to Multiply. This made the background and the tall gentlemen in the back a little too dark so I painted over the part of the background in black set at 11% and mode multiply. I then switched to white and painted in on the faces and the shirts of the men in the foreground. This was just a quickie so I am sure a little more attention would yield better results.



Johnboy

[Mhayes]

MB,

I think you are starting out just fine, but you can increase the contrast. Doing a Levels Adjustment like Johnboy has done will help and using the Multiply will increase your contrast, but I would bring the opacity down to maybe 50% or less. I think Johnboy's  shows good contrast, but I find it a little too dark and it looks like the man's face on the far right almost looks pink. I would not worry about whether this sepia matches the others in the gallery, but more that it is corrected for what is right with this photo.

I played with the photo and it is somewhere in between.



Margie

[G3User]

MB

Went somewhere in between your and Johnboy's suggestion by putting both on layers in  photoshop with the darker version on top. Added a circular gradient on an overlay layer above the top layer and backed off the opacity to about 50%.
Then another overlay layer and painted with a soft brush at 3% to darken the faces of the two gentlemen on the left, merged the layers and used levels to adjust the mid level brightness slightly. It might be improved by USM 20 20 to increase the contrast but I need to get back to my spots

Athol

[Hannie]

Hi MB,

I like your damage control, there were tiny black spots all over the photo including on the faces, great job!
I also like that you are very careful in trying to stay close to the original. 
(My experience with these old photos is that if I corrected the tone too much as to what it must have looked like once, the owner would not like it and wanted me to change it back to the more "damaged" version! :-))

A little more contrast would help.  I also noticed that there is an almost spherical area in the photo to our right that perhaps needs to be a little darker.
In a levels layer I moved the slider to the right and then used a radial gradient to only darken that area.

Hannie

[MB]

Thank you for the suggestions!!!!  Sepia is a lot more tricky than it seems.

[schen]

For the faces of the three gentlemen and the upper body of the two on your right sitting down, I will even go darker.  To darken the sepia image, I will change it to monochrome, adjust the tone and go back to sepia.  That way the color saturation will stay even.

[MB]

I tried to combine all the suggestions & the color changed a little, but I thinks it looks ok.  What do you think? 

[Mhayes]

MB,

I think it looks invisible.

Margie

[Hannie]

MB, perhaps a little too light? 

Hannie