That's a pic of me and my daughter from way back
I am trying to get rod of the granulation
Any help is greatly appreciated
Thank You

Pirate , probably the despeckle filter will yield a reasonable result. (not super good, but I doubt anything will)
Apply the despeckle filter twice. Or another time for more despeckling. However every time you repeat the filter you lose definition
Good luck

G'MIC anisotropic smoothing (in the repair section) with default settings works as good as anything.

Used Iain's Noiseprint preset for the bulk of the cleaning; did a few "other things" too. Too dinky to do much more, but, with some additional tlc, it could be made better.

anisotropic smooth, edge sharpening, white balance, color curve

Nice photo Pirata. Here my try, I despeckle with Gimp and then Ian's easy skin retouch and some adjust.

Be careful not to go over the top.

As before this is a default anisotropic smooth + a tiny bit of wavelet decompose to sharpen, hardly needed.

From your title I assume you enjoy Gimp. You may know of this tutorial, but I thought to mention it.

I think I am not allowed to link here, so please google 'gimp org smart sharpening'. that addresses ISO noise, grain, and selective unsharpening. Interesting links there too.

oh, a reference to "image -> Mode -> Decompose." is found in the newer menu set 'color - > components'

I like Issabella's one....

Use wavelet-denoise and you should see pretty good results. It's included in my builds or you can build it yourself or get it from the registry.

Hope that helps.

Partha

I couldn't get any better results then what was offered. I have found it hard to improve low resolution images without my own interpretation. With that in mind I made an handful of fun ones. I don't want to spam up the thread so I'll post just one:

Dear Lord
Thank You ALL for Your help and input
This is the best forum in the world

Partha
I am sorry,I missed Your post.
Do I need to do a search on your site for the wavelet?

Pirate,
No, you don't need to search my site for wavelet. My builds come with a whole set of plugins built in, including the wavelet family, gmic, ufraw, advanced tonemapping etc. Simply download the version for your OS (my builds are 7z self-extracting archives), extract to wherever you like - hard drive, external drive etc. In the folder you installed/extracted to, will be a file called gimp-2.8.exe (or gimp-2.9.exe if you are using the 2.9 version). Double-click and you are good to go.

Open your image. Then Filters -> Enhance - Wavelet Denoise. Choose the color model that best suits your image and denoise. I selected CEILAB. Select the channel and give it a shot.

Here is what I get after a couple of minutes:


HTH,
Partha

Partha
Thank You for Your reply
in Properties,the Gimp version I have says 2.8.10(that I had D/l from your site a while back)

Cool. It contains the wavelet (denoise, sharpen, decompose) family as well. So, same instructions as above.

My try

My try: Darktable for noise reduction (Denoise - Non local means Overview, equalizer). Manual retouched in GIMP.

I love the expressions on these two faces, it looks to me that your daughter just put one over on you and has that devlish look. Really cute

Molly:)
That was when she asked me to help her with a math project,but instead,i ended up helping her dye her hair:)

Partha
I don't have wavelet denoise under filters/enhance