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I might try, but definitely can't do that for so many pictures (at least 30). and given how slowly I am moving, it will take me forever

Now I am glad I posted because I had given up but I think I should try and save a few.

I just thought I would share my unsuccessful attempt. In lightroom, I could not quite get the size to line up and, in any case, it seemed that I could not get the black watermark to erase the white watermark. In photoshop, I could in some spots get a good level of removal, but again the pixels even in the best case would not line up perfectly. And in some spots I could not line up the text properly. I am attaching the picture of the half-baked photoshop results. I guess I will resign myself and give her the watermarked pictures . 

I finally managed to install LR last night and I played a bit with it but have not been able to line up the watermark. I do have visibility of the settings and I can see if I can set up the font with the same additional shadow in PS. unfortunately life is completely crazy and I have no prediction about when I can spend some time to figure it out... on the positive side, we now have a bed to sleep in

Excellent! I will think it over. Probably just the lab...

So, maybe I need to look at some lab that specializes in this? Or invest in a better scanner? (In which case, do you have recommendations?)

50 minutes ago, Damien Symonds said:

No.

As in, a home scanner is not sufficient?

Hi! One more fire related question - we were able to obtain prints of our children's pictures from relatives and we would like to create digital versions, with the goal of eventually re-printing the pictures. Would you say that a regular home scanner is sufficient for this purpose or should be looking into fancier tools? Thanks again with your help with the recovery process.

Oh, that's really interesting - I can see how it would work if I could get 100% overlap. Well, I will try to play a bit more with it. I wonder if trying to superimpose the watermark in black in LR might take care of the alignment issue. Long shot, I know. Otherwise I could try and use it selectively (letter by letter?) on the areas that are tougher to clone, such as the dress pattern. Might be more work than I was hoping to do - we'll see. Thank a lot for the idea! If I make it to get a decent result I will post it.

Actually I went ahead and downloaded it and it looks very very close but the spacing seems off a bit, and not in a predictable way. Not sure whether LR maybe was spacing the letters a tiny bit differently to cover all the surface?

Just checked and, no, I have only Myriad Pro. It looks like it is possible to download for free? http://www.fontpalace.com/font-download/Myriad+Web+Pro/

Or maybe it would show up if I install Lightroom? 

This old post says Myriad Web Pro. I have a newer version of LR but maybe it stayed the same?

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/781971

I can reinstall it. It will have to be a few days as things are quite busy. I will update you when I can... thanks again for checking on me.

I am... I thought I had posted my reply and assumed you were too busy to respond. It turns out the draft I wrote did not get posted Here you go...

 If I remember correctly it was done through the watermark feature in Lightroom (LR 5?). You will be pleased to hear that, now that I got my new computer, I finally had the guts to only reinstall PS Nothing like a fire to get rid of bad habits?

Long time no see... I have a rather unusual question to ask. I have lost all my pictures (as well as my house etc) in the fires in North California. Just before the fires, I had taken pictures of my neighbor's extended family (parents were visiting from India, brother and family was visiting from Australia so you can imagine it was a rare and special occasion). I had just delivered the prints and files to her when the fires happened. Moral of the story, all the pictures are gone. I am only left with the unedited, low res files that I had uploaded to the gallery for her to pick the images. I told her that all the images are gone and she is at peace with that but, now that my life is slightly less chaotic, I was wondering if I could remove the watermark on some of them, so that at least she can have some memories of her family's visit. Would there be a "smart" way to remove the watermark? See attached sample.

Moral of the story - now that my backup hard drives went in flames, backup on the cloud sounds pretty darn appealing  

I will try cloning. As for forgetting... it is very possible! But I am also exhibit A for your statement that people get overly concerned with plasticity. I did avoid sharpening, though; at least I can credit for that  will try to be more aggressive with the noise removal. 

This is the crop for the sunflare...

6 hours ago, Damien Symonds said:

May I see a closer crop of it?

I trust you've seen this?

I did, and it is on my mind. I don't think I qualify, because of the numbers of posts required? I have been so inactive when it comes to photography and editing... let me know if I am wrong...

Yes, that's what I tried but it still looked weird. Maybe I willl adjust then step away for a bit to see if it looks acceptable. Any suggestions on the pesky flare?

I know, right? This is the whole thing, and how I was thinking of cropping... I think I partly made it worse by darkening the background too much - so this is my new attempt with a little less darkening of the background, and a slight whitening of the teeth...

And, also, any tips on the sunflare, especially close to mom's hand? I figure I should use the channel mixer but I am not sure what numbers to use... both the red channel and the green channel are affected.

Do you have any suggestions on how to go about brightening teeth and eyes in this photo? on one side it seems that anything I would normally do would look unnatural because of the light conditions, yet I worry that the eyes and teeth need to be a little clearer...

alright, thanks for your quick response.

I still see some at 50%, I think.

In the attached picture, I replaced the left side of the wall with a gradient and added noise (10%). I am still seeing banding in the photoshop image unless I zoom in at 100%. How do I figure out if the banding will print out badly and is there anything else I can do to eliminate it, if this is a problem? (faces "obscured" because I am not allowed to share). Added the 700px square crop of the banding region, in case it helps.ETA: the high res jpeg does not look bad so maybe it's ok?

I was not. I did read about it some time ago but I forgot about it. I will try to practice and see if I can start using it more regularly.