Help Creating a Script for Enhancing Old Newspaper Photographs

[ShopPaint]

Hello,
It has been over a year since I last posted on the forum looking for advice on how to remove “halftone” from old newspaper pictures, see the link.

https://forum.corel.com/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=66456

I was very grateful for the help I received back then from Kathy_9, Jean-Luc, Jorgensen, JoeB and Andy 2011.
Surprisingly, as part of my project, I have only just found the time to begin working on the 160+ photographs. I have now decided that it is not that important to lose all/any of the “halftone” as I now think that it adds a bit of character. Although if some is lost during enhancement it is not a problem.

However, I really need to try and enhance each photograph, so here is my plea for help.
Given that I have so many photographs, I am a complete amateur and only have limited spare time, could anyone please help me to create a “script” that I might apply to all the photographs?
Most of the photographs are pretty similar with regards to quality etc., so I am hoping this can be achieved, obviously, some are going to be a little different and may need further tweaking.

Any help or advice would be gratefully appreciated,

Kind regards,

Pete.

[ShopPaint]

Here is an example of the photographs in question,

regards.

[fs999]

I would suggest to scan the photos with the highest resolution (far higher than that attached).
1. Apply a Gaussian Blur.
2. Downsize to needed resolution.
3. Apply Unsharp Mask.

[ShopPaint]

I would suggest to scan the photos with the highest resolution (far higher than that attached).
1. Apply a Gaussian Blur.
2. Downsize to needed resolution.
3. Apply Unsharp Mask.

Thanks for the reply fs999, but I can't scan the originals. What you see and what I have are photographs of the original pictures,

regards,

Pete.

[Jean-Luc]

Thanks for the reply fs999, but I can't scan the originals. What you see and what I have are photographs of the original pictures,

Are your images the same size? Could you post two others for testing?

[ShopPaint]

Thanks for the reply fs999, but I can't scan the originals. What you see and what I have are photographs of the original pictures,

Are your images the same size? Could you post two others for testing?

Hello Jean-Luc,
I am a complete novice when it comes to photo restoration etc. The pictures are all 72 dpi, but I think they are different sizes. If it makes any difference they will all be printed out at the same size which will be about 40mm wide keeping aspect ratio. I will post two more examples for you.

kind regards,

Pete.

[ShopPaint]

Here are two more Jean-Luc, thanks for taking the time,

regards,

Pete.

[ShopPaint]

Here is the other, thanks.

[ShopPaint]

Hopefully, this one works.

[Jean-Luc]

Here are two more Jean-Luc, thanks for taking the time,

I don't see two more. Only one more.
Normal?

[Jean-Luc]

Hi ShopPaint,
I cannot load your tif images.
The two images I downloaded are jpg images ("Image1 Master" and "Image2 Master")

[ShopPaint]

I will try sending it in Jpeg, thanks Jean-Luc

[ShopPaint]

Are we not able to upload Tiff images to the forum?

[JoeB]

I have never tried. Why not zip it and see if it will post?

[ShopPaint]

It appears that the Tiff images were too large for the forum settings, thanks.