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Title: Photograph of my grandfather Clement Pope and his family
Post by: barkbythorpe on Saturday 01 May 21 08:14 BST (UK)
This is a family picture taken at Mountsorrel, Leicestershire. My Grandfather Clement Pope is Back Row LEFT. George Pope, Hilda Pope, Joe Pope......Their parents, my Great Grand Parents seated are Sarah Ann and Charles Pope......is it possible to Date this picture and enhance it for me? I would like to be able to crop the people in the image for profile pictures
Many thanks
Regards
Mick Pope

UPDATE: After just reading your excellent SCANNING TUTORIAL Ive rescanned the original photograph at 300dpi as recommended and reattached
Title: Re: Photograph of my grandfather Clement Pope and his family
Post by: Gadget on Saturday 01 May 21 10:37 BST (UK)
Hello Mick

It's good that you rescanned it but you've scanned it in Greyscale. While it can be restored from this, it would be best if you rescanned in full colour* (it will be labelled RGB in your scanner software). This will increase the number of tones in the image and result in a better restoration.

Gadget

* and saved with no compression
Title: Re: Photograph of my grandfather Clement Pope and his family
Post by: Gadget on Saturday 01 May 21 10:58 BST (UK)
Re date - I'd say it was late Edwardian - 1907-1911 ish
Title: Re: Photograph of my grandfather Clement Pope and his family
Post by: japeflakes on Saturday 01 May 21 11:19 BST (UK)
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Title: Re: Photograph of my grandfather Clement Pope and his family
Post by: barkbythorpe on Saturday 01 May 21 11:32 BST (UK)
Hi
I really appreciate your help and comments on this
I cant find any file settings on my Epson xp 322 printer, its a fairly basic model so not sure if it supports TIFF files which i guess is whats going to give best results?
Would you recommend I use a camera that supports TIFF files than a scanner?
Title: Re: Photograph of my grandfather Clement Pope and his family
Post by: barkbythorpe on Saturday 01 May 21 11:36 BST (UK)
is there a file size i should be aiming for.......it seems compression is limiting the results we can get? TIFF files dont compress?
Title: Re: Photograph of my grandfather Clement Pope and his family
Post by: Gadget on Saturday 01 May 21 11:44 BST (UK)
If you're saving them in jpg, you should have a dialogue that comes up with a bar - it would give the amount of compression or quality/ best file. Something like the image below.It varies with how you save. Your aim is to save as best or highest quality.

The mximum file size allowed on Rootschat is 500kb.
Title: Re: Photograph of my grandfather Clement Pope and his family
Post by: Gadget on Saturday 01 May 21 11:52 BST (UK)
png files are not compressed and are larger in kb when saved. It's really a balance between quality and kb size.
If you just want  profile-type images of each person, you could scan each head and shoulders  individually and get larger and more detailed images of them that way.
Title: Re: Photograph of my grandfather Clement Pope and his family
Post by: Treetotal on Saturday 01 May 21 17:01 BST (UK)
I agree with Gadget on the date as the 2/12inch collar was popular around that time.
Carol
Title: Re: Photograph of my grandfather Clement Pope and his family
Post by: McGroger on Sunday 02 May 21 08:34 BST (UK)
My try, featuring Ed and Ted, the two-‘eaded Edwardian wonder-dog(s). It’s easy to remember who’s who; just say Ed’s the ‘ead at the front and Ted’s the ‘ead at the back, ‘cause Ted follow-Ed. ;D
Peter