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I work in Photoshop a lot in my line of work (not portrait painting...yet), in graphic design. Do you think I can make some adjustments through that software?
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I have had very poor results in making adjustments in Photoshop to scanned images' values; it seems that I can not get beyond the limits of what I scanned in to begin with...which doesn't mean you shouldn't try. (However, I'd note that I have just the right amount of knowlege in Photoshop to be VERY dangerous..to myself, possibly to others.)
Your best bet is to get the negative, if you can, and see what the photo lab can do for you, presuming the image was taken with film. Once you begin compounding third, fourth, fifth generation images, the values get so badly blocked up that you can't do much with them. If the image was taken digitally, you should get much better results in Photoshop, but only if you are manipulating a digital image. Even if the image was taken digitally, once it's committed to film and printing paper, you can't regain the advantage of millions of tiny individually colored pixels.
Regarding the values, take careful note as you progress. The darks in places like the N-L fold will be blocked-up (compressed), but the lightest values will also be fairly significantly compressed in the over-exposed areas as well.
Good luck, and you are very welcome.