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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: Anne Lee on Tuesday 26 September 06 18:02 BST (UK)
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The dress and bow should be pale green, hair white blond. Sorry can't remember the 'pram at all.
I have always had this 'photo and often wondered what it would look like with color.
Then I was introduced to this site.................couldn't believe my eyes at the results everyone produces.
I hope someone is able to help with this
Anne Lee
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Hi Anne
This is far to small to work with really. If you are able to re-scan it try and obtain a scan setting of at least 300dpi.
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I am a complete idiot with computers. But I have it in "my photos" and I just enlarged it on there and resaved.
So I'll try again but I'm not sure what will happen.
Thank you for pointing that out to me.
Anne Lee
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Nope, it doesn't look any better. I'd better try to find a reference book before I try again.
Anne Lee
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Nope, it doesn't look any better. I'd better try to find a reference book before I try again.
Anne Lee
Hi Anne - Enlargening an existing picture will NEVER improve results. If this is the only pic you have on your PC and you cannot re-scan the original as advised I am afraid we are limited in what can be achieved sorry :-\
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I tried scaling it with cubic extrapolation....
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Does that mean that it could be worked on now?
Could you please explain in English (US or Brit) what you did?
I have a lot of 'photos that over a period of time I would love to put on here but they are all tiny.
Anne Lee
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i had a little go for you but as previously stated i could not do a great deal with this photo, cheer's, kali.(http://)
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Thank you, it's still a darned sight better than my try
Hmmm. My mother always told me that I was a very beautiful child!!!! Not too sure about that anymore............I think she was very biased LOL
But again thank you, I'm starting to see resemblances to other family members with a little bit of color added.
Anne Lee (signing her full name because there are so many Annes around)
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only to pleased to help anne, im only sorry i could'nt do better
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For Polldoll:
This total idiot typed for about 15 minutes in what I thought was the correct area. I can't believe all of those compliments went down the tube.............sorry, maybe I have to pay money to see the areas you are talking about???
Anne
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Hi Anne Lee
If you have the original photograph and a scanner, re-scan the photo but before you do, go into your scanner software and usually under the heading "Settings"....go in and change one of the boxes on the screen so it reads as "300 dpi" or change it to an even higher if you can. By doing this, you will get a much higher quality scan.
Such a cute little photo, it would be lovely coloured if we had a properly scanned version to work on. :)
Cheers
Cazza
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try a rescan at 300 dpi you will have much more information to work with at this resolution you can also make it larger in size eg 4x3 inches will give you a file size 3.6 mb
its not neccesary to color the whole photo as in those days photographers hand colored work with inks often just doing flowers or a frock drawing attention to the most important details . use your lasoo to select area but make sure that you feather x eg 6 pixels so as not to get a hard line of color
suggest desaturate and then do your own sepia color using color balance
when using fill select multiply and 50 % for a softer look
your image is blurry to start with but thats no worry I have had just a quick go to give you an idea
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sorry did not think it would appear so big on list :-[