Help editing a photo

[Vauxhall60]

Could someone tell me how to edit this photo or point me to a tutorial which would help me.Thanks for any help and advice.

[Callum]

Hi Vauxhall60,

What edits is it you would like to make to your image?

Thanks

Callum

[Vauxhall60]

Thanks for the reply.The part I cannot get is the top third of the photo where it seems to have a white cast over it.I can manage the rest.I do not know where the white and the 10 came from.

[emmrecs01]

@Vauxhall60

That image reminds me of the effect I have seen when pictures taken with an "old-fashioned" film camera have a problem, usually with 35mm film, where the film is not wound far enough along the unexposed part before the next picture is taken.  IOW, what you are seeing is the image you want and half of the next, or previous, image which was taken.

In my experience, this could be especially a problem with film for slides.  I have a number of slides in my personal "archive" where, either the images overlap, as in your case, or the slide positive has been "trimmed" to remove the overlapped area, hence a slide which projects with "empty" (= white) areas.

I'm honestly not sure how or even if you can rectify this problem.

Jeff

[v_kyr]

You can try out the remove dust filter together with some levels adjustments in order to remove or milder that white area.

[Vauxhall60]

Thanks for the reply.It is an old photo.About 30 years ago it was taken.

[ubiquity]

You can also try the haze removal filter. I just put a rectangular marquee around the whitish area to apply the haze filter once, but you may need to apply adjustments more than once and, of course the image you have is far better as a starting point than just working on a quick screen copy like I did.
Do you want to keep the notice board in the background? You might play around with the wall texture from the left hand side to eliminate the "10".

[carl123]

Make a rectangular marquee around the top third white area and copy & paste to a new layer. On that layer add a Brightness/Contrast adjustment and lower brightness down to about -46, raise contrast to about 67 (try to match the blues in the girl's shirt)

The rest is mostly cloning

The more time you spend on it the better results you will get

 

[ubiquity]

Carl123's solution is better and yes the more time you spend the better your results will be.
I suggest you avoid using regular shapes if you are going to clone the background.

[HVDB Photography]

28 minutes ago, ubiquity said:

and yes the more time you spend the better your results will be

 

[Vauxhall60]

Thanks for all the replies and helpI will give them all a go later on..

[ubiquity]

On 11/16/2018 at 3:54 AM, Vauxhall60 said:

Thanks for all the replies and helpI will give them all a go later on..

Hope you managed to get a satisfactory result

[Vauxhall60]

I followed Carl 123' advice and got a satisfactory result.Going to do work on it another time to improve it even further.(cloning.)Thanks for enquiring.