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| Thread ID: 42619 | 2004-02-17 01:02:00 | Photo manipulator expert needed | Greg S (201) | Press F1 |
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| 216083 | 2004-02-17 01:02:00 | Hi. I've recently been to visit my mum and discovered a unique photo of my grandmother - the picture is truly ancient, and scuffed and scratched. So I've scanned it into a lossless format, and tried (with photoshop 6) to clear it up. But I'm no expert, so I considered getting a pro to do it. However i thought I'd ask here first, if anyone who's a hot graphics manipulator with some spare time on their hands, would care to have a try for me? Thx |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 216084 | 2004-02-17 01:06:00 | ps - as a bonus, whoever can help will get to view an image of a remarkable woman whose line was not far removed from early Russian royalty :) | Greg S (201) | ||
| 216085 | 2004-02-17 03:10:00 | I consider myself to be pretty handy at photo restoration. What format and size is the image? |
b1naryb0y (3) | ||
| 216086 | 2004-02-17 04:32:00 | Hi Greg, I do a lot of this sort of stuff with photos (also used to restore real paintings for museum) If you want to send me the jpeg/bitmap or whatever and give me a few days I'm sure we can make it look 'as good as new'... no charge, the bonus of seeing a regal lady spruced up would be enough :) Joe |
joe90ak (3042) | ||
| 216087 | 2004-02-17 06:24:00 | Thanks heaps for the offers! Please give me your email addy's (or mail me at nospam at zu dot co dot nz) so i can send you the image. It's in .bmp format, and just over 1 MB in filesize. I'll give full credit to whoever makes it nice! :) |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 216088 | 2004-02-17 12:54:00 | Thanks again to the folks that sent me their email addresses - I've sent the image. For anyone else curious to view the picture (the old scruffy version), I've set a cropped version of it as my new desktop wallpaper: www.zu.co.nz (83KB) |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 216089 | 2004-02-18 10:17:00 | A word from the missus using Greg's username:\ To all the people who have worked on the image: thank you so much - I can't believe what a wonderful job you've all done - I'm a librarian with an interest in genealogical and archival matters so this is a very special little project. Thanks again The Missus From Greg S - I've got a remastered version of the image now - it's incrediblly good. Considering that the original photogragh was only 2 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches, it's amazing. Huge thanks to Joe90ak! |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 216090 | 2004-02-18 17:05:00 | For Greg & the Missus Isn't she beautiful...! I do hope you knew her - and she was more than just a photograph, but rather a grandmother you had a chance to know? When I think of how amazed our ancestors would've been to know that as-yet unborn generations could view them at a particular moment in their life, I wonder what comes next for us... How do we want to be appraised by our following generations? Or does it matter? (Those with no interest in ancestry beyond parentage would say No) Now we leave much more evidence behind us than your grandmother did.. So what will the children of 2050 decide to focus on in terms of what we were like, do you think? Lots of photos & videos about, no doubt. But will they actually KNOW any more about us than most of us would about the life & times of the lovely young woman in your photo?? |
Laura (43) | ||
| 216091 | 2004-02-18 18:51:00 | But will photos of us survive,Laura.Especially these days,with it all going digital.Just files on a hard drive,which anyone can wipe! That's my worry,how to store/what to store on.Just had a DVD out from the library to watch.Half way through it starts replaying.had to press play repeatedly to get past the error.At least with LP's and tape it will pick up the signal again.So is it worth saving videos/photos to CD/DVD? Sorry,I was going to do a separate post on this! |
Neil McC (178) | ||
| 216092 | 2004-02-18 20:47:00 | > Isn't she beautiful...! > > I do hope you knew her - and she was more than just a > photograph, but rather a grandmother you had a chance > to know? Thanks Laura. Unfortunately no - all my dad's close family were wiped out during ww2. He only survived by being taken to a labour camp, from where he and a couple of Polish lads managed to escape, and found their way to the coast somewhere where they got on a refugee ship to NZ. I met some of my more distant relatives when my mum took us kids to Russia in '69 after my dad had passed away. And Neil - yeah - the digital archiving of material is a huge issue with archivists - especially how open it is to dishonest corruption as well as data corruption |
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