Photo Restoration
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Have damaged photos that need some Photoshop help? Request assistance here.
General Rules
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Be wary of any person initiating conversations with you privately via direct message. Many scammers use this method to coerce money out of individuals. Any work and conversation between requesters and editors should be posted publicly in this forum, for transparency and accountability.
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Heads up! There are many free apps available like Remini that 'restore and colorize photos' that you can do yourself in one click, but they are of questionable and often inferior quality.
Requester Rules:
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Upload photo you want editing on and describe as specifically as possible what work you want done. (higher quality image upload the better: a proper scan or photo with no blur or glare)
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Make it clear whether you want this done for free or if you intended to tip the editor(s) who work on your image. Editors who put watermarks on free requests must remove the watermark at your behest. If it is a paid request, the mandatory watermark will be removed after tipping the editor.
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Give adequate time for editors to do their work. Even though some jobs can be done quickly, you don't want to pick the fastest rush job either.
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Be sure to say thank you and let people know if the request has been fulfilled.
Editor Rules:
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Upload restored image and provide hyperlink to your tipjar if applicable (Paypal, Ko-Fi, etc., keep text short and to the point, no begging)
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Watermarks required on posts where the requester explicitly mentions payment. Watermarks optional on 'free' requests, but you must give the edit away for free if OP wants it.
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No 1-click AI edits. Respect the craft and respect the photos submitted here. Please focus on high quality edits. Habitual low effort/quality work as a result of 1-click edits using AI tools like Remini, Stable Diffusion, auto-colorizers, with minimal human input just to capitalize on tip money can result in a ban.
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My first crack at image restoration. Hope you like it Lemmings!
Some background information for those who are intrested: I study the use of latent diffusion models for a big furniture retailer in my country as my Master's Thesis.
We use custom models to transfer upholstery from one furniture to another so that there is some kind of reference for the sales team and customers of what the furniture they are ordering is going to look like.
However, many of the original images I need to work with to train the models or to transfer the upholstery to have been compressed to extremely low resolution, thus the need to figure out good methods for superresolution. Suggestions and tips are welcome!
The faces are a bit cursed due to lack of data on the original photo, but I'm just trying to do my part...
Original image:
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What I would like: general improvement to quality, removal of glare on photo (I dont have the OG, just this digital shot). Colour correction. Free, but will tip up to 5AUD if I really like it. Thank you in advance!
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A picture of the plant my great great grandfather had built up. Located in Moravia, Czechia. This is how it looked before it got bombed in WWII. The original was an oilpainting - and also lost.
I wanted to rescue this picure for quite a while now, because it is a rare document of personal significance, but I lack the skills and now also the time to actually do it.
The picture is a scan (I just threw the maximum resolution at it and corrected contrast a little) of a magazine reproduction (only blackwhite) of a postcard showing the original painting. It accumulated a lot of losses of quality in the process of being a copy of a copy of a copy, so I included an annotated version with the imgur album.
I consider color to be a lost cause here, but if you want to try your hand at colorizing, go for it. What I would really like fixed is the halftone pattern, the paper damage and the letters that rubbed off from another magazine. (The company logo must stay)
Originally I wanted to do it myself, so I didn't plan a budget (and was advised against putting a number here), but I will award xx.-€ for the best result posted before Dec. 23rd 2023.
Good luck.
