How to Improve This Old, Damaged Photo?

[Carver]

The attached photo is in really bad shape and I have not used Paint.Net very much. All I knew to try was remove the background and then try to add pieces of either skin or clothing in "layers" to try and match the missing or damaged skin or clothing colors (and to cover up some that is in terrible condition). The end result was that the pieces of skin and clothing that I tried to add were the appropriate colors, but the photo looked like an old photo with blocks of color added on top of the photo, not at all blended into the photo.

Is there a basic tutorial that would show me how to do what should be done, or at least get me started in the right direction?

[Curmudgeon]

for parts that are missing, you could try the clone stamp :CloneStamp:

for coloring an area, this video tutorial may help you: http://www.screenfrog.com/paintnet/lady-bug-video-tutorial/

Lots of different things you could try out

[Carver]

Hi Curmudgeon,

Thanks for replying. That Lady Bug tutorial might be helpful, but I could not get it to open.

You mentioned that there are many other things that I could try. Could you please list some of them.

Many thanks.