Flood Picture Restoration

I thought I would share a picture that I was asked to try and restore.  This image was recovered from a home in High River that belongs to the parents of a good friend of mine. When they first called me about it, they said it was in sewage water and was all wrinkled.  They didn't know if anything could be done, but would I try?  So I dove in.  After washing it off, while being careful not to remove any of the fragile emulsion, I put it to dry under a weight. I scanned it in and then set to work in Photoshop. A lot of the detail was lost under the muck, and without having seen the original, it's hard to know how much was there in the first place.  But I think I was able to do a credible job of getting it back.  Here are the before and after shots:

 

xo

Jen