A while back, I did a Photoshop restoration of a distant relative for another distant relative of mine (how do these people find me?). As you can see below, it was in pretty bad shape. The man was also, apparently, a Freemason. Conspiracy theorists converge!

Anyway, It took a lot of clone brush, healing brush and just plain old extrapolation of what this man looked like— for which, I had no reference. Basically, I had to guess.

Also, the original photo was only 2 inches wide to begin with. I scanned it in at 600 dpi, but there is always going to be some data extrapolation (there’s that big word again).