This is the only picture my family has of my father (left) with his two brothers and their father (middle right) in their navy uniforms. My grandmother took the photo but ended up cutting off the hat of the first to people. My process was first straightening out the image as it was tilted slightly. I then expanded the image to make room for the heads of the first two in line and did a fill and clone stamping to create the hat and missing background. Once I had all of the space I needed I I began adding filters and blurring as well as color balancing. I stripped out some of the yellow cast and enhanced the red while also trying to make the shadows more pronounced to give some space to the individuals.
This was a great experiment and I am hoping to get some more images from my grandmother to try this on. I am pretty happy with the result but I wish I could clean it up some more.