This beautiful photo of my customers grandmother melted my heart the moment I saw it.  And what a great hat she is wearing!

The original photo had beautiful graininess and composition but the surface had degraded over the decades, with areas that had faded or cracked. The customer sent me a very high resolution scan so that I could retain all of that beautiful texture and remove the aging without losing the fine details.

Here is the final photo, restored. Originally, this was probably a black and white photo and I initially desaturated it to black and white to work on it, but then returned a sepia tone to make it look antiqued. That was done simultaneously with the Aunt photo, which it would accompany.

Tags: children, family history, genealogy

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