Using a newspaper picture of Linda Lusardi .... a very poor picture scan from her thread. First I re-sized it (made it a bit smaller), and gave it more 'colour' depth, but it was still very creased from the original very poor scan and not good quality .... similarly the 2nd pic was damaged, with missing parts
Before examples
.... and this one ....
So I then worked on each for about 30 mins, using the cloning function and got these ...
After examples
.... and this one ....
Its not a perfect technique by any means (
although on light repairs its 100%), but these are examples of what can be done to rescue even the worst of images e.g. if you have a family event from an old Newspaper.