Me and my big mouth.

Rhodese

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My son is doing an art project and needed an old analogue phone to ring on a stand alone plinth. “I’ll ask at work says I”. I asked the electronics designer and he tells me it’s not as simple as it sounds. I would need wave gens and transformers and loads of stuff I had never heard of, he realised I hadn’t got a clue what he was on about and offered to build a gizmo to do it, great, and a few days later he arrives with a box of tricks that the phone plugs into and it rings and stops when you pick the receiver up and starts again when you put it down.” Cheers what do I owe you” says I “Nothing, but I do have a digital image of my daughter and I but its poor quality , would you see if you can do anything with it?” he asked “ Of course” said I. It’s a rubbish file noisy, colour casts, soft, and a real challenge. OK the proposition is this: what would or can you do with it show us your efforts and explain your methods.
Here the file.
DSCI0066.jpg


Here’s mine, I cropped to straighten the horizon and resize to 300ppi, used Noise Ninja, then a bit of dodging and burning around the eyes and adding catch lights, spotting to get rid of the marks in the sky then a tweak in curves and a border using stroke.
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Please have a go.
 
Here’s mine, I cropped to straighten the horizon and resize to 300ppi, used Noise Ninja, then a bit of dodging and burning around the eyes and adding catch lights, spotting to get rid of the marks in the sky then a tweak in curves and a border using stroke.
print.jpg


Please have a go.
I think your on the right track but you can still get a little more life into it by tweaking the levels and a slight re-sharpening
there are probabley others better than me at this though



print_copyjpg.jpg
 
anyone skilled enough to paint out the strap covering the little girl's mouth?
 
dadandgirl.jpg


My attempt - tried to fix the strap in her mouth but I've given her a weird smile. :shrug:

Good luck with that - it's a bit of a horror pic to try and rescue.

Panzer
 
Have you got a larger version of the file? The bigger the better for tweaking really :)
 
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