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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: Wiggy on Wednesday 11 August 21 00:40 BST (UK)
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Just a simple job please . no colour required!!
Don't know who, but possibly John Edward Rogers born Ireland 1848 died Victoria 1919 aged 71.
On the back it wasy 'with best wishes 1911' which would make him (if it is he) 65 - :-\ :-\
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Wiggy, I don't know what's going on, but when I try to download your photos the names change from, e.g., "??Rogers..." to "Index", accompanied by no picture but many, many pages of garbage like the image below. Perhaps someone more technically minded than I can suggest what's going on. ???
Peter
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My try:
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original. Does the "?" make difference in the file name?
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It downloaded with no problems for me. I wonder if Wiggy has changed the link.
A lot of fly specks or dust on the scanner ;D
B&W ~
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... and toned
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Don't know Peter!
Thank you very much Japeflakes and Gadget.
Nice work! 8) I think he looks a very friendly man.
Gadget . . . odd that you say that . . . . . I cleaned the scanner glass today - but I thought I'd done it just before I scanned. Maybe it was after . . . :-\ :-\
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One from me
Pat
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One with a slight tone
Pat
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Very good! Thank you Pat. :)
I wonder who he was. ;) - looks to be a nice man anyhow .
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He looks a lovely old man. I tried to make his eyes more twinkly with selective contrast to bring out his sense of fun ;D
I'd say that he was more than 65 - more 70-75.
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Thanks Gadget - and they do look twinkly too! :)
- thanks everyone - JF, Gadget and Pat. Very pleased with the results - sorry you couldn't download/upload it Peter.
Gadget, I too wondered about the age - how I would love to know who he was. I can't find anyone else who it could have been - but then again, it could have been someone who wasn't a rellie at all as people often say - just a friend of the family leaving a reminder. Odd that it has suddenly turned up amongst my Grandmother's /Aunts bits and pieces. I wonder how long my cousin has had this in her posession?
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Some lovely restores Wiggy .... what a lovely old soul he appears to be .... Popped in and saw him and had some time on my hands ... one more for your collection ...
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Thanks Poll! Beautiful and yes I would like to have known him I think. 8)
Golly it is a long time since you have been around. Lovely to 'see' you.
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Thanks Wiggy ... I do pop in every so often but life is just so busy ...I feel there's no time to lose as once you pass the 3 x score and ten mark .... there just doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to do all the things I have got to do !! ;)
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Wiggy, I don't know what's going on, but when I try to download your photos the names change from, e.g., "??Rogers..." to "Index", accompanied by no picture but many, many pages of garbage like the image below. Perhaps someone more technically minded than I can suggest what's going on. ???
Peter
Peter - just scrolling thru the images and I noticed your comment. I can't fully explain why the image uploaded by Wiggy has a 'php' file extension. I'ts not one I have seen before and these days all I ever see is - doc/docx/png/jpg/jpeg etc. etc. Back in the 1980's I used to be in IT Technical Support and played with (but no expert) with various machine code languages eg. DOS - BASIC. I know the world has moved on since I retired many years ago and the only thing I can find out about files with an extension of '.php' is that - PHP files are plain-text files that are human-readable. How an image/photo ends up with .'php' I don't know.
All I can add is that it you select the file name of the uploaded image - in this case - ??Rogers 911.jpeg - to download the jpeg file to your system then your system appears to interpret the file as a php machine code readable file - I assume your system does that because of the two ?? at the start of the file name.
On my system I selected the file name and I get also get a download file with a name index.php ( tried it a couple of more times, getting index(1) & index(2)) php files that my system can't load as I don't have the software to interpret the contents of the file. However when I right click on the actual image to get the download options I get a jpg file downloaded.
So if I see any other files starting with '??' I will ignore and use the mouse right click to down load. :)
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My Effort
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And one from em, regards, John.
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Thank you all for you work on this interesting looking man - Pat John and 'Eggy'.
Interesting explanation Eggy as I thought I'd just used the normal way of loading the file.
Wiggy
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Eggy, thanks very much for posting your explanation and solution (which works for me, too). :)
Peter
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Coloured version
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Thanks Pat!!
Not at all sure this is J E Rogers - hence my '??' on the original file - but never mind - It is good colouring, whoever it is!!! ;)
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Thanks Pat!!
Not at all sure this is J E Rogers - hence my '??' on the original file - but never mind - It is good colouring, whoever it is!!! ;)
Thanks Wiggy... fixed it.
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From the point of view of someone who looks at just about every photo posted.
Whoever he is, his photo is super and makes him look like someone I would really like to get to know :-)
Mainly because of that twinkle in is eye that indicates he would be fun to be around!
Boo
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Now, now, Boo ;D
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Behave yourself Gadget!
He has the same twinkle that my Granda had in his eye - and a visit from Granda always had the promise of stories, songs, games of cards, draughts and chess, oranges and apples and now and then those slim, penny bars of choccy in silver paper- and above all the BEST of whiskery hugs n kisses.
:-)
Grandas are the BEST!
Boo
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;D ;D ;D ;D
Mine was more likely to take us out in the garden, paddock or workshop with him!!
but I agree - Grandparents are the best - (Grandmothers too ;))
thanks Pat!!