Oh my! wow, thanks for all the nice words! I worked very hard on this and yes I am very interested in photograph restoration. My mom is our families genealogist and thru her Ive had to restore all the family photos...lotsa practice considering most of our family is shoebox collectors..

Ive already had it printed via snapfish to see exactly what it would look like and found it was a bit grainy so I had to go back and fix that. but now It looks fairly good to me.

As far as the black and white comment I guessed that was what I should have been in the beginning before age took its tole, but now I'm thinking maybe a sepia tone would look more original. but I'm not that familiar as of yet. I started my site long ago, but have been mostly learning web mastering..lol.. and not enough about actual photo restoration history.
I guess next Ill check out the link given above..hehe..thanks

and again thank you all for such a wonderful critique! it does so mean a lot to me.

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