Extreme Retouch (Restore)- Old Pictures

These took a little more time, and a little more creativity.  I love how the first image turned out, I am quite pleased with it.  The second one, however was quite a challange, as the whole image had severe damage.  At first glance it may not look perfect, but if you look it over, you can see I put a lot of time in to it to clean it up and restore it. (click to enlarge, then click again to enlarge a 2nd time)

 

BEFORE:

 AFTER ^

 (Again these are family pictures, Top is my Great Grandpa again in a school picture, probably around 1925, and below are my Grandpa and his brother in 1934)

Examples of retouching: Wedding

 

The next 2 have been lightened, and sharpened.  The second also has distracting image in background removed:

Below is a slight retouch:

More Sharpening:

(Note- These are not my images, and I do not have the rights to them, only used for examples of photohop work.  Images are of my amazing brother and gorgeous sister-in-law on their wedding day at the Newport Beach LDS Temple.)