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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: KATE1001 on Friday 15 July 16 14:31 BST (UK)
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Hi
I would be grateful if someone could make this photo a bit more clearer
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Very minor touch from me.
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Many thanks for taking the time to do some work on it. It looks much better. I just realised that I scanned it as PDF not JPEG. Don't know if that makes a difference or not?
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Must admit that I'm not sure myself. Try again as a jpg at a high resolution.
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Jpg would be better I think.
Had another go:
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I think you are most probably right, Japeflakes.
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Hi, I would be grateful if someone could restore this photo.
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For a brief few minutes this morning, this appeared on the board as a jpg. I just happened to d/load it before it disappeared. I had another play with it...
If anyone fancies a play with it... please feel free to use my clean up, or the original in the following post.
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The original downloaded this morning.
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A try from me, regards, John.
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sorry I had removed it as I thought it was a duplicate posting ;) (back now)
Sarah
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Many thanks everyone for taking the time to do some work on my photo.
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try this...
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Thank you Greywolf907 for the restore. It looks so much better now.
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excellent Handypandy
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here is the best I can do.
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Many thanks, Greywolf 907 for taking the time to try and improve.
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Hi Kate, I think the other versions are probably better but this my very first attempt at digital photo restoration. There's a whole lot I still need to learn but for what they're worth, these are the versions I came up with in a five minutes.
Mike
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Hi Mike
Many thanks for taking the time to restore my photo to such high standard. Greatly appreciated, Kate
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Glad you like them, Kate. Gives me bit of confidence to do more. I noticed a few specks on the color version that were easy to remove that I forgot to do. So I've removed them on this version (2 minutes work).
Mike
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Many thanks, Mike.
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Folks, there's something I want to correct and clarify in my original post below.
I worked (briefly) on two versions of Kate's photos:
- the orginal posting.jpg (B&W, downloaded and reposted by HandyPandy)
- the excellent colour version (Dad and me at Leysdown 7 col.jpg) created by HandPandy
When saving my Photoshop files back in JPG, I saved them as 'original posting (mike)' and - unfortunately - 'me and my dad colour (mike)'. In posting, I should have made it clear that 'me and my dad colour (mike)' was HandyPandy's colour photo with just a few additional (minor) adjustments.
The wording of my post, together with the renamed file, may well have given the impression that I was claiming the color version as my own work. This is untrue and was genuinely unintentional. I should (even so late at night!) have taken more care when posting and attributing the careful work on the colour photo to HandyPandy. I apologise to him and others for my lack of attention/care when posting.
This also clarifies the 'five minutes' in my post. I in no way meant to suggest that a full (colour) restoration could be done in 5 minutes! This is skilled and careful work that takes much more time. I don't have these skills but I hope to develop them over time. So my only (quick) contribution to this thread was to remove any remaining 'specks' or 'lines' that I saw in the original B&W version or in HandyPandy's colour version. To do this, I used Photoshop's 'context aware spot healing' tool which - magically - removes 'imperfections' just by clicking on them. I also quickly adjusted the contrast on the B&W version.
I apologise for any wrong impressions that I may have given and I will take more care in future.
Mike
Hi Kate, I think the other versions are probably better but this my very first attempt at digital photo restoration. There's a whole lot I still need to learn but for what they're worth, these are the versions I came up with in a five minutes.
Mike
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Mike... no need to burst a blood vessel ;D but I appreciate the credit.
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Blood vessels are fine. Credit where credit's due ;)