Dealing with overexposed faces in old color photos

Am I correct in assuming that aperture can't really do much for recovering of detail for overexposed faces in non-digital photos?
I have tried various methods given by youtube tutorials but they did not have much of an effect.
These methods seem to be geared towards digitial photos .
Would scanning in at a higher DPI increase my chances or should I consider tracking down the negative and getting a bigger print struck?
Thanks
Jim

Hi Jim,
Digital or otherwise, the question is whether there is any data that can be recovered.
Are the prints/negatives "blown" or "overexposed"?
"Blown" means the only luminance data there indicates pure white (which has no hue). "Over-exposed" means the data is lighter than you want.
If there is no data showing anything but pure white, there is nothing you can recover using any process (in a darkroom or with a computer).
If there is data that has a lower luminance than pure white, you should be able to make it more visible by lowering the luminance (and increasing the saturation).
Scanning at a higher DPI will not recover any data in any blown area. It will just give you a finer gradation of existing data.
To see where you have non-white data, crop to the face and slide the Highlights slider all the way to 100. Blown pixels will remain white.
The film negative may contain more data than your print.
HTH,
--Kirby.

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