Beautiful old photo

[levb]

This is the original image:



This is where I am so far:



Do you have any advice?

[Hannie]

Lovely repairs so far Lev!
A little increase on the contrast perhaps?

I noticed that your restore is in grayscale, we prefer that you leave it in RGB mode and use a Channel Mixer adjustment layer to get to monochrome.

:up2:

Hannie

[levb]

Thanks Hannie!

Any suggestions about the top, which is the most damaged part? I'm thinking of completely blurring the three "ghosts" in the top left corner.

[Mhayes]

Lev,

How about using the 6 figures next to them for copying and then place them in where the "ghosts" are? You can rotate, transform in order to not look identical. Because those are so small, no details needed. Blurring might work, but it might cause more of a distraction. Try it both ways and post.

Margie   

[levb]

How about this?

[Mhayes]

Lev,

It would look better if they were more in the shadows. You could duplicate the layer and change the top layer to "multiply" and then lower the opacity as needed--then do a layer mask so that you are only changing the "ghosts." Hope that makes sense?

Margie