Advice on tone restoration please.

I have a photocopy of a long lost family photo. The image is precious and I
have attempted to restore it but with little luck. It goes from black to
white with the flesh tones almost totally eliminated. I need to be able to
restore the greyscale and gradation. Has anyone experience of the
restoration of images which are this far gone please?
The image is at
http://www.chirgles.btinternet.co.uk/mayday.jpg
Thank you for your attention

DFGH.

"DFGH" <dfghdfgh2@skyworld.com> wrote in message
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> I have a photocopy of a long lost family photo. The image is precious and
I
> have attempted to restore it but with little luck. It goes from black to
> white with the flesh tones almost totally eliminated. I need to be able to
> restore the greyscale and gradation. Has anyone experience of the
> restoration of images which are this far gone please?
> The image is at
> http://www.chirgles.btinternet.co.uk/mayday.jpg

You may not be able to do much with it - if the data's not there to recover,
it's just not there. You might have to recreate a lot of the elements. Go
over to retouchpro.com, they have a number of tutorials and the like where
you can get more tips on restoration and retouching.