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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: maggie5 on Wednesday 27 February 13 00:27 GMT (UK)
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Another miracle needed please,I have not got the photo to re scan, it is a tin photo with quite a bit of damage ,hope you can help
Maggie
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as a kid in UK I spent every waking moment during summer hols helping out with the donkey rides at Margate beach so love this photo . Hope you like what I have done with it
Cheers
Maureen
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Hi Maggie...To help us to get the most out of your photo could you rescan it at a resolution of 300dpi to bring out the detail...this is scanned at a very low 72 Dpi...There is a tutorial at the top of the board.
Carol
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Treetotal have i done this right ? ::)
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Mahalia ,Thank you very much and well done :) nice to see it in colour
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Hi Maggie...It is now 300dpi so well done on that...but you needed to say it to best quality with no compression.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,372537.0.html
Carol
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Goodness Carol im lost with this now :( i use Gimp and i cannot see anything that will do that .
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Hi Maggie
Just trying to help but need to know how you scan. On your first post you said that you hadn't got the photo to rescan. For your second image, did you re-scan a copy of the image or did you just change the dpi of the file to 300?
brevitas
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Thank`s Brevitas ,i scanned the copy i have on my computer, i Dont have the original ,I just went to resize in Gimp from the menu at the top of the page .oh just thought i might have just changed the DPI ,i have no idea how to re scan
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Hi Maggie
If you don't have the original, any scan will only be as good as the copy that you have. It is possible to do something with it - as in Maureen's - but it is very small and looks like the section shown below when enlarged.
I'll have a go later but have to go out this afternoon.
brevitas
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Treetotal,Brevitas , i have tried again is this any better please
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Hi Maggie
Just to let you know that I'm working on it. It's got some really bad vertical lines (possibly from photocopy/scanning) on top of all the other problems. It could take quite a while as I'm trying to stay as close to the original as possible and not use nasty smoothing filters :-\
There looks to be a small figure to the left of the donkeys face - or am I seeing things. I thought first of all that it was part of the reins/eye piece but, on closer inspection, I don't think so.
brevitas
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Thank you Brevitas,gosh you must have a really good eye i cannot see anything , i have doubts as to if anything can be done ,i do understand when you say how bad it is and appreciate you having a go at it ,good luck with it .
Maggie
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Here's a tiny snip/screen shot (66%) of where I am - with the saturation right down. I think it will be the weekend before I finish it!
brevitas
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Wow ! a big difference already :o ,well done on what you have done and thank you .
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Hi Maggie
My eyes are playing tricks on this one for the moment. Will see if I can get more out of it tomorrow. In the meantime, here are a couple - one with grain and one with a bit of sandstione texture!
brevitas
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I had a go as well
Irene
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Absolutley Brilliant Thank you both of you ,i am delighted .
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Hi Maggie
I felt sorry for the donkey so borrowed a few bits and pieces - I had borrowed the ears yesterday! ;D
brevitas
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Good work everyone, and brevitas, I love what you've done with the little donkey, isn't he sweet :-* I can feel the fluff from here!
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Brevitas the last 2 are Perfect Thank you very very much .