How to remove paint in photo

[alex_g7]

Hi! can someone help me erase the black paint in the photo? 

[davescm · Accepted solution]

No. On a single layered image there are just black pixels in that area. There is nothing else to reveal.

Dave

[KazVorpal]

I blame hollywood. I regularly get people asking me to do things like this, obviously based on the impression one gets in movies and TV shows of how "zoom and enhance" works. A photo taken in a darkened room at night that is essentially solid black with a faint grey smear, and not only do they want to see the person's face, but they inform me the person was looking away from the camera. Clearly I should find a single-pixel reflection on spoon somewhere in the unlit room and extrapolate the image of their face from it.