Post and tell - your restores/coloring

[Emjaybee]

Thanks Bob.

Lets stick to this suggestion folks, I never turn down good advice.

I think we will need guidance on the catalogue Bob


Mike

[kizmiaz]

I think Bob means something like a sticky called "Post and Tell" which contains links to all the individual 'post and tell' (or whatever) threads, just like the Scanning and Posting or Tutorials and Tips ones

Glen

[mosiefish]

Hi Everyone,

I think Mike`s idea is great for all us newbies.  I have been downloading and practising on a lot of the piccies for some months now but have never posted one back.  I just like to see how near I get to all you clever people out there. 

The Lady Di photo has been very instructive and I have spent a happy few hours
on it.  Many thanks to all who have taken the time to explain their individual techniques.   This is just the sort of thing that is needed to help us along.  A child board would be even better in my humble opinion.

Regards,
Mo

[Lones]

Thanks Bob, for supplying suggestions on how this can be done, we will all benefit from this, "newbies" and "oldies" alike, and of course the bigger winners will be the postees.  More restores and better quality ones too.

I can't believe how popular this site has become, when I joined Rootschat a little over 2 years ago, I read through the 6 pages of photo restoration, now there are 99 pages  .    So we must be doing something right!!  I look forward to helping others and learning new tips myself. 

Cheers to all who support this idea 

Lones

[jc26red]

mosiefish
Good to hear you're practicing hard, but you do need to post on the threads as the restores can look a bit different once they are on the web..  Once you post your first one you will be well away, though it is a bit daunting doing your first one.  I fellt sure no one answered my first one and I thought I done something wrong    I got over it.
When I started, I used to pick out bits the other restorers did well and try to reproduce the effect.. ok I wasn't  good to start with but I did keep at it.
We all have our strengths and weaknesses so its good to constructively look at the restores and decide what you like and don't like and develop your own style.  We can all tell who did a colour or restore without even looking at the name

Looking forward to seeing your work 

Jenny

[Emjaybee]

One  found worked for me was to view my work in the Windows Paint application before posting. As often when I posted to the web as a jpeg I was disappointed in the result.

The tradition seems to be when you post your repair/colour it just sits there. Many will look and admire but do not feel they are allowed to comment for fear of offending.I have pm.d in the past and asked for a critique, but thats a bit awkward.

I am so glad my idea has taken off, we are going against a well founded tradition of posting.

Can we please post all sample pics with an estimate of its difficulty, the first one was "difficult/expert"
We need a beginners sample please. The post should be in the format suggested by Bob, e.g.
as a seperate thread with a link on this thread - Post and tell No.2 your nic (beginner/inter/expert) as appropriate. This will keep the reair post seperate and leave this thread for admin, tips and tricks, your ideas, socialising etc.

Sorry for rules and regs but we need a structure now before the boards get cluttered and we are warned off by the Mods.

If you can post your repair with a small section of the original for comparison all the better.

Please be assured all comments will be monitored, both Moderated and by the members, so dont be afraid to have a go in a safe environment.

Most of all enjoy.

Mike

[jc26red]

Mike,
the problem with saying whether you are beginner/inter/expert is that no one will consider themselves an expert and if anyone does, why are they here and not making money at it!!!  There is only one person who posts on a very rare occasion that I would put in that class.

While I don't consider myself a beginner anymore there are areas that I'm definitely not good at and wouldn't consider myself an expert in any shape or form.  My techniques are very long winded and do not fully utilise the power of photoshop. I can totally understand someone new or relatively new to restoring who is eager to learn saying they are a beginner but it becomes more difficult to classify when you have been restoring more than, say, 6-12months.

I do have lots of photos that I bought for restoring off board that have less damage that I could post for the exercise but I think we may need to classify the object of repair or colouring for each photo. i.e, cracks, fading, colour restoring, lighting, removing/moving objects, use of layers/masking, use of filters, backgrounds, framing (one for Jim or Tomkin I think )  or even  tool manipulation and what a tool is useful for.. some I never use if its outside my comfort zone!!!!!!!! Color management is another but I'm not sure anyone would want  to try to explain that one

There is also the problem of the different types of software we use, PSP is different to CS2 or Elements and there are somethings in Elements you can't do that is possible in CS2 or PSP.  I don't know the other free/cheaper software to be able to comment on them.  I think if anyone does put up examples for critique they should mention which software package they are using so that any help will be in the right format for a beginner to understand. There is no point saying how to do things in CS2 that cannot be understood or done in the same manor in other software. 

mmm... sorry no short way of putting all that, but there is more to this idea than just posting and a critique   

Jenny

[kizmiaz]

I do have lots of photos that I bought for restoring off board that have less damage that I could post for the exercise but I think we may need to classify the object of repair or colouring for each photo. i.e, cracks, fading, colour restoring, lighting, removing/moving objects, use of layers/masking, use of filters, backgrounds, framing (one for Jim or Tomkin I think )  or even  tool manipulation and what a tool is useful for.. some I never use if its outside my comfort zone!!!!!!!!

Good idea Jenny

A photo with just one or two scratches across non-vital parts (not the face!) could be a good photo to practise on and discuss different techniques. If you have one like that, then we can all see the different techniques used to remove the damage.

Glen

[jc26red]

Since reading Dis reply, it might be better if restorers carry on restoring our usual "visitors" photos and if they want advice or to discuss the techniques to also put a link to this thread and ask for comments/critique here. This way our general turnover isn't upset and there is an avenue for discussion outside the original request thread.

As far as I understand it, this critique/discussion is mainly for new people or others wishing to learn new methods who may under normal circumstances feel that they are imposing by pm'ing individual restorers.  Lady Di, Irene, Mudge, Kizmiaz and I were trying to get the ball rolling... but unless the people who asked for this thread make an contribution then....   

Jenny