Peter1418

Thanks for the information mate its appreciated. I am now thinking how much work that would be for around 150 pictures, nothings ever easy (laughs) regards, Pete.

Thanks for that "Free" is the denoise done automatically or do you have to "blackout" all those parts manually?

Hello Garry, this attempt looks really promising, could it be sharpened up a little without bringing back the halftone? it is still impressive though and when printed out at 50mm x 80mm may well be close to the mark, but may need brightening up a little. Thanks for taking the time. Pete.

Thanks Stefan 1967, PixelPest, carl123 and Garry P for the replies and some interesting results there, pretty impressive, thank you for taking the time, it is appreciated. Pete.

Hello, I have just joined the forum as I am contemplating purchasing Affinity Photo to help me with quite a large project. Obviously, before I purchase I need to know if Affinity will fit my needs. First of all, I should say that I am a complete novice when it comes to photographic restoration etc. and would be very grateful for any help or advice or preferably tutelage regarding the following. I have over one hundred and fifty old halftone newspaper pictures (actually, they are photographs of the original pictures, see attached picture). All pictures are head and shoulder shots of individual people, and I will be printing these “pictures” out at a final size of 50mm x 80mm, portrait. I need to learn how to “shop” the pictures so that they will look at their best when re-printed on plain white paper. I need to try and get rid of the “halftone” as much as possible and this is what attracted me to Affinity as I believe it has FFT-based “noise” removal built-in, which if I understand things correctly this would be very useful. I will also need to enhance the pictures to some degree. If anyone with the relevant experience would like to “take me under their wing” and teach me how to get the best results I would be extremely grateful. Kind regards, Pete.