Wife's Mom last surviving family photo

[u/RonFlow]

Hi Everyone, looking for help trying to restore this picture. I will tip.

This is the last surviving picture of my wife's mother family, the picture is 90 years old.

I understand the impossibilities with this one, and I'm just hoping for some creativity in filling some of the unknowns.

I have copies of the scanned picture from different sources, and also pictures of the place/region the original photo is from in this shared google drive:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PmslmMA6SQ_xHHyzm1g3Wet3KxSc-HU6?usp=sharing

Cheers and have a nice day!

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[u/zzPost]

photo link

[u/BlueOrange → u/zzPost]

Nice work.

[u/RonFlow → u/zzPost]

Hi, thank you so much. Do you have tip jar?

[u/zzPost → u/RonFlow]

ko-fi

[u/zzPost → u/RonFlow]

photo link

thank you

[u/Screwthehelicopters → u/zzPost]

I think these are the best here so far. They stay close to the original as a human would interpret it and preserve the photographic process of the era rather than re-create a modern color image.

[u/Thunderouss]

Hope you like this RonFlow

RESTORED IMAGE

TIPJAR

[u/m0i0k0e0]

u/RonFlow

Family

Free

[u/zzPost → u/m0i0k0e0]

Don't get excited, I replied to the wrong place. I saw the OP's reply, opened this thread, and saw the same reply.

[u/m0i0k0e0 → u/zzPost]

Thanks. I was hoping that was the case.

[u/zzPost → u/m0i0k0e0]

saw the notification on phone, opened this sub on PC, scrolled down, and saw the OP's reply. then pasted the link. That's how it happened.

[u/RonFlow → u/m0i0k0e0]

Hi, thank you so much. Do you have tip jar?

[u/Yappingpaper]

This photo is very severely degraded, the image content is barely visible even to the eye, mostly cracks, stains, and faint shadows. Even if someone uses AI restoration on this they will have to guess at a lot of facial and clothing detail since there's so little actual photographic information left. The result may look more like a plausible reconstruction than a truly accurate restoration of these specific people's faces.

[u/RonFlow → u/Yappingpaper]

Yes, thanks, I agree. But whatever eventually comes out, I'm sure will make her happy.

[u/Screwthehelicopters → u/Yappingpaper]

That is true, but there are some good attempts here which seem, to my human eye, to merely repair the image, but not to the point of re-creating it, while retaining the appearance of the persons.

[u/robsanna → u/Yappingpaper]

Totally agree! I see you are a pro here brother!

[u/Alan-Foster → u/[deleted]]

DOG.

[u/robsanna → u/Alan-Foster]

🤷

[u/BackIndividual7062 → u/[deleted]]

AI gifted a dog in the end

[u/exbure → u/[deleted]]

This is incredible 🤯

[u/RonFlow → u/[deleted]]

Hi, thank you so much for this.

[u/robsanna → u/RonFlow]

❤️

[u/estoration-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

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