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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Restoration Please - Albert Farmer & Alice Greenhill 1919
« on: Saturday 31 January 26 20:56 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Treetotal on Saturday 31 January 26 17:50 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Jool on Saturday 31 January 26 16:51 GMT (UK)
Lovely natural restore, Peter, and Carol's colour version is beautiful.  Much better than anything AI could do.

Yes Jool, I couldn't have done if Peter was a colourist, but, Peter and I have had that conversation.

Also....AI would have made that connection  that I mentioned in my previous post ;D
Carol

Did you mean “ AI would’nt have made that connection  that I mentioned in my previous post”?

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Restoration Please - Albert Farmer & Alice Greenhill 1919
« on: Saturday 31 January 26 18:03 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Treetotal on Saturday 31 January 26 17:47 GMT (UK)
As this was post second WW1 purple is the second stage of mourning and she does look quite sad.
Carol

I’m away for the next couple of weeks, but I’ll have a check when I get home to see who she could have been mourning. TBH she always looked a bit sad in photos.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Restoration Please - Albert Farmer & Alice Greenhill 1919
« on: Saturday 31 January 26 17:15 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Treetotal on Saturday 31 January 26 16:02 GMT (UK)
I have coloured Peter's beautiful restore for you, he doesn't add colour as he is colour blind.
 I couldn't resist as it is such a beautiful image.
Carol .

Many thanks Carol. The colour does help bring them to life. How realistic do you think the purple skirt and jacket is for the time, or was that just a wild guess?

Steve.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Restoration Please - Albert & Alice Farmer and Their Children c1926
« on: Friday 30 January 26 11:38 GMT (UK)  »
That's amazing Peter, thank you so much.

I wasn't sure what you'd be able to do with that, especially the tear, which seemed to be offset vertically and horizontally.

If my date of 1926  is correct it would put the children (fron left to right) at 5, 3 and 2. Does that sound about right?

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Restoration Please - Albert & Alice Farmer and Their Children c1926
« on: Thursday 29 January 26 16:48 GMT (UK)  »
Following on from the photo of my grandparents before their marriage, this is the only surviving photo of them after their marriage with their three children and is in a dreadful state. Judging by the ages of the children (my father is top left and was born in 1923) I estimate it was taken in 1926-7. The picture was taken in front of 8 Chester Road, Seven Kings, Essex where the family lived from at least 1911 until 1984 when my grandmother died. Shockingly the house still had an outside toilet and no bathroom.

I would be very grateful if someone could work their magic on the tear and the unfortunate “flare” covering most of their faces. As I mentioned before I'm not a fan of AI resorations, which I find too perfect.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Restoration Please - Albert Farmer & Alice Greenhill 1919
« on: Thursday 29 January 26 10:03 GMT (UK)  »
Peter,
That is truly wonderful. Please accept my thanks for bringing it back to life.

I was intrigued by that grid pattern that appeared in the background so I checked the photo of my grandmother alone which is in perfect condition, and it is clearly there. Maybe it’s a window showing through from behind the background?

A bit of background on the sadly short and hard life of my grandfather: He was born in 1889 and was a poor jobbing carpenter and labourer. He joined (presumably conscripted) the RAMC in November 1916 and, being illiterate, didn’t notice that his documentation named him Alfred James Farmer instead of Albert James Farmer. He served in France, presumably as a stretcher-bearer, and suffered gas damage to his lungs which left him a sickly man after the war. He married in 1920 and had three children, but died of tuberculosis in 1930 when my father (the middle of the three) was just seven years old. Fortunately I have his two medals and a couple of pictures of him in uniform, but his silver war badge is missing, although he was wearing it in his only wedding photo.

The one piece of information I’m missing is why he was conscripted into the RAMC rather than the regular army. Maybe he was a conscientious objector or unfit for the regular army?

Thanks once again, Peter.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Restoration Please - Albert Farmer & Alice Greenhill 1919
« on: Tuesday 27 January 26 11:34 GMT (UK)  »
I'd appreciate a manual (i.e. non-AI) attempt to remove the tears and creases and clean up the background staining, etc of this photo of my paternal grandparents. She isn't wearing a wedding ring so I assume it was taken shortly before their 1920 marriage, but after the war, so about 1919.

It's one of only two surviving photos of them together from around that time, the other taken on their wedding day (in that one she is wearing a white dress and white hat and a wedding ring and they are both wearing flowers) and as you can see it's in poor condition. Another photo of my grandmopther from the same sitting (same watch, clothes and sitting on same bench, brooch moved from neck to centre of her blouse, but no hat or jacket) is in excellent condition, as is their wedding photo.

Many thanks in advance.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can anyone work their magic cleaning up this photo please
« on: Friday 23 January 26 15:39 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: rosie99 on Friday 23 January 26 14:45 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Treetotal on Friday 23 January 26 14:35 GMT (UK)
Yes....It's called AI
Carol

Just my opinion but I think that AI makes these old pictures too perfect.  It makes the skin so free of flaws it is almost unnatural

It is also so quick and easy to do compared with the time spent by those who still do it the old way.

I agree. I think that AI generated "repaired" photos should be tagged as such in the posts.

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