I sincerely doubt it’s faked, I just think my initial thoughts echoed Count.D’s in the sense that the ‘original’ may not have been entirely representative of the image used to generate the second one.
I’ve not done any retouching of photos for many years and it was old family photos too, I think I mainly did it to make and print copies for relatives and dabbled with removing blemishes and so forth.
Thank you gentlemen for your time and comments.
I now feel I should have shown the scanned image after cleaning as it came up nicely having been stuck to the back of the previous page in the album it was housed.
You live and learn.
What I want to assure you is that it most definitely not faked.
It shows the state the photo was when received by me and after a lot of work what was achieved.
It’s a great photo. Wonder what became of them all?
Shame on you.
@AndyP - I think you may be taking Beachcomber’s comment the wrong way/out of context with the rest of his post.
Best wishes, AC.
I’ll agree with you then.
Isca, to my knowledge at least two of the boys are on this photo including my grandfather.
The Army football side of 1942 in India before recruitment to the Chindits and relocated to Burma.
I think @Shaunio has commented politely and explained the potential discrepancy to those of us who are maybe a bit more fussy (ok - anal) on overall details.
I really didn’t take Beachcomber’s opening sentence as criticism just inherently factual, but dismissed in subsequent ones as unlikely.
I am not suggesting it was faked - simply that, without knowing exactly all the circumstances, I can’t know or prove that it was not faked. Or, put it another way, it would be perfectly possible to make a fake set of photographs that looked like this. I assumed from the original post that it was not fake, but had to admit that it was feasible that it was a fake.
So no, no shame. I was simply acknowledging that I could not vouch for its authenticity. And I am very happy to accept the assurances that it was not. TBH I did not consider that it was faked.
That’s another great photo.
That’s thought provoking!
An amazing image.
As I mentioned earlier, I’ve never used Topaz software but have seen several references to it in the last year or so.
How important is it in your workflow - would be really interesting to see a ‘best case’ image produced with and without it. Hope that makes sense.
Yes it does make sense.
The software is becoming my go to for old portraits as it can bring out the facial detail with its AI rendering - sometime jaw drop-ingly so - if that is such a word.
The automation of selection when importing an image is spot on most of the time making many of the tasks in photoshop redundant for me in many cases, but PS is still the dogs.
Thanks, no reason to change, he is on there centre with the ball at his feet.
It’s amazing what can be achieved with some skill and effort.
I managed to take this old thing
And improve it no end.
