Anyone up to a challenge?

sallyanne · **Posted:** Mon Oct 21, 2013 8:30 pm **(#1)**

This is an older photo. Looks to be scanned from a photo too. My mother, sisters and their mother. I would like to be able give it to her for Christmas in a better state than it is now. Can anyone make it clearer? I have tried but cannot get rid of all the noise.

ek22 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 21, 2013 10:01 pm **(#2)**

The noise is not so much the issue as the blur. A lot of the texture that makes up the faces is just plain missing. Trying to sharpen it brings out the noise more but it in some cases completely wipes out the faces.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Tue Oct 22, 2013 12:03 am **(#3)**

Thanks ek22. Yes I tried sharpening too and got pits in their faces. I may be hoping against hope that someone is able to do something impossible.

ek22 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 22, 2013 1:22 am **(#4)**

Yeah, might be a lost cause sallyanne, I'm sorry.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

The faces are too blurry to be recoverable IMHO.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Tue Oct 22, 2013 5:45 am **(#6)**

Thanks I will stop trying myself then, ofnuts

hanciong · **Joined:** Oct 31, 2011 **Posts:** 112

Using NeatImage to clean then noise, and then Unsharp Mask. But as others have said, the faces are too blurry to be recovered. Do you have higher resolution?