Photo retouch help

[Starkler (Geoff)]

I'm hoping that one of you image manipulating wizards can help to improve a scan of an old family photograph.

The original is not a good quality photo but it's important to me as its a scan of one of very few family photos I have where everyone has a nice smile. More important now that my father is no longer with us.

The second is a sample of the higher res jpg with awful colour balance as it came off the scanner. The first is a small jpg with much better colour but its of too low resolution to be worth printing.

If someone with the image manipulating skills could spruce up my original stored here , to something equalling or bettering the low res 1st pic I would very much appreciate it

Thanks.

[Glenhuon (Bill)]

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[RB (Andrew)]

I've saved the jpg from your link Geoff and I'll have a go when I get a chance.
If you have a tiff version it would be even better, perhaps you could let me know and I'll pm you my email.

[Starkler (Geoff)]

Theres no tiffs or anything else like that Andrew. This is a scan of an old photo taken by fixed focus el-cheapo snappy cam.

Many thanks to MattyP, Glenhuon and Mrsnipey who had a go and emailed me the results. Its helpful people like you who make IIS a great place to be

[erick (Eric)]

Geoff, do you have access to the photo? Scanning again at higher resolution into a TIF file, fiddling with scanner settings as you go, may provide a better image file to work on?