This is a favourite photo of mine of my Dad with my pet rat Desiree from 35 years ago. As you can see it was the last shot on a roll of film.

I asked a friend to try and repair the affected areas with Photoshop and this is the result.

I think what he did is fantastic, (sorry I don't have the details of what exactly he did).

What do you guys think?

Looks darn good to me... ........oh to have the patience to work with Photoshop!

Wow! Good work indeed.

And a lot of time spent I guess...

I can't imagine doing that myself...

Evaluate your friends photoshopping you mean?

At 1st I thought the overlayed image was some kind of prisoner with a number tatood on their back

Your friend did a nice job

Still not right....

Still not right....

Goose , perhaps you can display a better example ?

nah , still a Goose .

Still not right....

Give it a break, I think an excellent job has been done given what they started with.

I hope that my posting the Photoshopped example of a 35 year old flawed photo has given some courage and inspiration to others to touch up their old family photos.

 

For those who are interested, my Photoshop expert took about 3 hours to get the final result.

 

And all it cost me was one bottle of beer ha ha!