Crazy Eyes! How can I make them look normal?

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All the eyes in these kids have been damaged somehow but the kid second from right has been particularly difficult to fix:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/80223516@N05/7170839611/in/photostream

It's almost as there is a big lump of something stuck to where the nose meets the left and right eyes.

Has anyone out there have any suggestions on how I can correct this?

Any help would be much appreciated!
 
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Do you have the original to rescan? It looks as though they've been damaged by a pin, and in the first instance, you may get a better starting point by carefully adjusting the paper around the holes to re-construct as much as possible (most of the image will be there, it's just been lifted up as the pin as been extracted) - then tweak in PP.

Alternatively, just paste a set of sun glasses over each kid :P
 
Sunglasses would be funny.

That is the original scanned. b****r I dont have the original negative. I used the CS6 spot healing to some success on the right eye and the other kids eyes but when you zoom right in to that left of you can see all the film scrapped from the eye. It looks like a big zit!

Can anyone suggest the best way to use the healing tools for this problem?
 
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Because there is not a lot of detail to work with, I've zoomed in at 400%, use the paintbrush tool and drawn the eyes to match the detail of the original (no skill involved, just set brush to very small, soft edge, use the colour dropper tool to sample adjacent pixels and draw to match as best you can).

I then used the spot healing brush on my new eyes to make them a little less obvious, and then blurred the layer I'd drawn the eyes on to lessen the effect even more to match the sharpness of the original.

Let me know if you want me to remove the image (conscious that you have checked the box not to allow edits, but this was the easiest way to show you- I can also e-mail you the edited 'large' image from flickr if you need as a PSD with layers intact)
 
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