When I've lost or corrupted hires versions of heavily colour edited photos, I take the colour information from the low res image and the texture information from the hires image and combine them with a small Gaussian blur on the colour layer and then using a highpass on the texture, and layer them with the blend mode set to soft light. Basically a quick frequency separation. It isn't perfect but gets you 95% of the way there almost instantly, making the final edits a LOT quicker.
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When I've lost or corrupted hires versions of heavily colour edited photos, I take the colour information from the low res image and the texture information from the hires image and combine them with a small Gaussian blur on the colour layer and then using a highpass on the texture, and layer them with the blend mode set to soft light. Basically a quick frequency separation. It isn't perfect but gets you 95% of the way there almost instantly, making the final edits a LOT quicker.
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