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Destroyed wedding photo. Please help!
« on: Wednesday 01 October 08 00:24 BST (UK) »
Is anyone able to try and adjust this photo? Its faded badly in the sun and not sure if it is fixable or not.

I hope it is! Its of my wifes parents getting married in London.
Northants - Stevenson, Smith, Spriggs, Hight, Dodson, Coleman
Swansea - Thomas, Williams, Howell, David, Rees, Griffiths, Jenkins, Bevan
Rutland - Hales
Derbyshire - Harlow, Riley, Pemberton, Aldred
Yorkshire - Stamper, Boyes, Duke
London - Harper, Wallis
Essex - Shelford, Wallis, Read, Stanes
Hertfordshire - Bishop
Cornwall - Johns, Soper, Rowe, Ball, Webb, Dunn, Quintrell, Hain, Oliver
Gloucestershire - Harper, Ash, Gregory, Denman
County Durham - Proud, Duke
Yorkshire - Stamper, Pickering

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Re: Destroyed wedding photo. Please help!
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 01 October 08 00:50 BST (UK) »
Hi there

A quick B/W one but this really needs to be rescanned at a higher resolution. This is only 72 and needs to be at least 300 dpi to get a better result and decent print from.

Irene
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Re: Destroyed wedding photo. Please help!
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 01 October 08 00:53 BST (UK) »
Ditto, a b&w from me ... probably a bit big, again  :-[
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Re: Destroyed wedding photo. Please help!
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 01 October 08 00:56 BST (UK) »
Apparently the photo was colour! It doesnt look like it does it?
Northants - Stevenson, Smith, Spriggs, Hight, Dodson, Coleman
Swansea - Thomas, Williams, Howell, David, Rees, Griffiths, Jenkins, Bevan
Rutland - Hales
Derbyshire - Harlow, Riley, Pemberton, Aldred
Yorkshire - Stamper, Boyes, Duke
London - Harper, Wallis
Essex - Shelford, Wallis, Read, Stanes
Hertfordshire - Bishop
Cornwall - Johns, Soper, Rowe, Ball, Webb, Dunn, Quintrell, Hain, Oliver
Gloucestershire - Harper, Ash, Gregory, Denman
County Durham - Proud, Duke
Yorkshire - Stamper, Pickering


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Re: Destroyed wedding photo. Please help!
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 01 October 08 01:30 BST (UK) »
Hi Vasquez  :)

I've done some adjustments and this is about as good as I can get the colour balance.  Hope it will do.

Cheers
Prue

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Re: Destroyed wedding photo. Please help!
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 01 October 08 10:39 BST (UK) »
Had a try at restoring the original colour, best I can do.

Bill
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Re: Destroyed wedding photo. Please help!
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 01 October 08 10:41 BST (UK) »
One from me
No improvement - higher resolution scan could help

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Re: Destroyed wedding photo. Please help!
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 01 October 08 14:05 BST (UK) »
best i can do, but these images always need a higher resolution scan when you are trying to save colour. I'm finding the red channel becomes to pixelated and removing them removes to much detail.
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BEDFORDSHIRE: Bland
BUCKS: Brown, Bryant,  George, Hiams, Morris, Reynolds, Smith
CHESHIRE: Barker, Didsbury, Griffith, Pickering
KENT: Coveney, French, Mercer
NORTHANTS: Brown, Bryant, Gibbard, Hiams, Spence
SHROPSHIRE: Barker, Killan, Powell
STAFFORDSHIRE: Connor

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DENBIGH: Jones, Simons, vaughan, Williams
CAERNARVONSHIRE: Parry
FLINT: Barlow, Evans, Owens, Parry, Williams,

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Re: Destroyed wedding photo. Please help!
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 01 October 08 18:38 BST (UK) »
Wow! Im so impressed with all of these!!!
Northants - Stevenson, Smith, Spriggs, Hight, Dodson, Coleman
Swansea - Thomas, Williams, Howell, David, Rees, Griffiths, Jenkins, Bevan
Rutland - Hales
Derbyshire - Harlow, Riley, Pemberton, Aldred
Yorkshire - Stamper, Boyes, Duke
London - Harper, Wallis
Essex - Shelford, Wallis, Read, Stanes
Hertfordshire - Bishop
Cornwall - Johns, Soper, Rowe, Ball, Webb, Dunn, Quintrell, Hain, Oliver
Gloucestershire - Harper, Ash, Gregory, Denman
County Durham - Proud, Duke
Yorkshire - Stamper, Pickering