How to restore faded photos?

[Stephen Liu]

(06-22-2022, 08:26 AM)rich2005 Wrote:

(06-22-2022, 01:59 AM)Stephen Liu Wrote: Thanks for your help.  Could you please inform me how to get your result in brief?

There is no one way for images like this, indoors, inadequate lighting, areas in the photo that are degraded beyond fix.

I think an auto-white-balance gives too harsh a result. An alternative is colour select from a dark area (dark brown) put a layer of this colour over the photo Put the layer mode as Subtract.  
That gets an improved image but then it comes down to hands-on editing.
Separate the background and try to improve the contrast. Use the dodge-burn tool sparingly.  The same with the foreground.
There is a big black shadow area under the infant. This is horribly degraded. I replaced with a manufactured pattern. (Needs a bit more work on the deformations but no more spare time )
Had an overall look again, some painting in with the warp tool / clone tool / smudge tool / dodge-burn tool.

It becomes an artistic exercise.  Not going into more detail other than that.

Thanks for your help.

The steps would be too complicate to me.  I'll leave it for the time being until I find its film negative.

I put aside of all photos with serious faded color.  Until I have finished scanning all photos then I'll search all film negatives to find their negatives.

Regards