Retouching, Repairing, and Restoring. Options

[its_annah]

Recently, I took my film to get it developed at Target. I had ordered a package that came with the Kodak Disc, the ones where it already has your pictures in digital form. SO when I looked at the pictures in both the hard copies and the in the CD, the quaility was HORRIBLE. So they didn't charge us for any of it, but I really wanted the pictures. I was wondering it anyone knew how to fix up the pictures and such. I'm using PSP7. If you can help me, I'll love you forever. =]

Example

That was the quality of most of the pictures. I KNOW the camera wasn't the culprit because some pictures came out perfectly fine.

[ChasingLife87]

Oooh, don't you HATE that?

Anyhow. What I would suggest is this. I know on PSP8 there's a "one step photo fix" that smooths out a lot of problems like that, but I haven't opened up my seven in so long that I can't remember if it has it or not. I don't think it does.

So what I would do... I'd probably do some sort of smoothing, like edge-preserving smooth. Keep the numbers low enough that it won't make it look painted. Play around with the saturation levels and brighten it a bit. Also, change the contrast.

If that doesn't help, post again and I'll see what I can do to help

[its_annah]

^ Okay, I've tried that and it comes out great, but it leaves the speckled look. It loosk grainy. I tried the salt and pepper filters and the despeckle, but nothing seems to get it to go away. Can you help me with that?

[talcumpowder]

..... Edge Preserving Smooth. Try using that.... Or... Morie Pattern Removal.