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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: jools13 on Monday 14 August 23 11:23 BST (UK)
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Is anyone able to sharpen/improve this blurry photo please? Taken around 1910 It’s the only photo I have of my great grandmother and I would love to be able to see her facial features a little better.
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Had a go but.... Are you sure on the date?
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Thank you, I’m really grateful for any improvement on it 🙂
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One from me. I hope it's OK as my eyesight is not what it was!
Gadget
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..and one with touch of AI to bring up her face a little more.
PS - PhotDater suggests it was circa 1947. I would say it's more 1940s as dress is def not 1910
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..and one with touch of AI to bring up her face a little more.
PS - PhotDater suggests it was circa 1947. I would say it's more 1940s as dress is def not 1910
Thank you so much. She was born 1880s and I’ve assumed she was maybe 35 on this photo, perhaps she is a decade older. The dress is deceiving as it was ankle length long (not 40s calf length) but another relative had the other photo we had of her and appears to have ‘mislaid’ it.
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My grandmother, b. late 1870s wore longish dresses until she died in 1949. I can remember her friends, who called in the 1950s, also wore similar clothing. It might just be 1930s but no way is it 1910.
Gadget
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An example of lte 1930s-1940s clothes for older ladies.
This is my gran (the one in my avatar, taken 1915) on the left and her friend in late 1930s-early 1940s. I think they had been hanging out the washing.
She was a love, i still remember her :)
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Agree with much later date. Also believe she looks much older than 30.
Wiggy :)
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My try. :)
I think she looks about 50.
Peter
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Thank you all for your efforts and input.
I just realise I miscalculated by a decade on my original post so it should have said 1920 (but I don’t know how to edit it). I know she had a hard, outdoor life but perhaps I was unfair to her saying she was 35, when looking again she is clearly very lined so probably early 50s so this would put photo into late 1930s and seems to fit with others estimates.
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Attempt by me
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Late 30s early 40s would be my guess.
Carol
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One from me sharpened with some colour
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RJ137 that’s amazing, thank you 🙏
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Some nice efforts here. Appreciate seeing the different versions and directions some took.
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My attempt...
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jmagarac … thank you. That’s fantastic how you sharpened her face so much.
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jmagarac … thank you. That’s fantastic how you sharpened her face so much.
Hi jools... I really can not take much credit for that. it is simply AI (Artificial Intelligence) doing its thing. AI is pretty cool... but, as I have mentioned in previous threads - it can be a little untrustworthy. One has to always remember - it "is" ARTIFICIAL. It is simply drawing upon the millions of images that have been coded into its data banks.
It WILL create eyes where "eyes don't exist". It simply recognizes a face, and knows where eyes, noses, and mouths are located. It will even create teeth, if there is enough original pixel resolution to indicate/suggest that teeth are showing.
I think yours turned out pretty good, but it is very important to remember that AI can and will oftentimes alter the physical resemblance to the person who has been enhanced. I mean... c'mon - it is not a thinking, caring related individual... IT IS A COMPUTER ALGORITHM that generates an image based on the available information it analyzes and assesses and assigns information (drawn from its coded banks) to the new image.
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A little color fun...
I put a little of "human" thought and process manipulation into this one.
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Thank you again jmagarac, for both the colour image and taking the time to explain the AI enhancement, which I had not considered but I fully understand what you are saying.