On 8 July 2012 18:13, Adam Cuerden <[email protected]> wrote: > With all respect, Geni, it's clear you've never done a restoration.
Oh but I have. Admittedly generally on canals rather than 2D images. > In > cases where information is missing, it's necessary to fill it in. > While this may not have been the most major restoration I've done, > there were still many areas where information had to be recreated: one > man had a long scratch through his eye, which meant I had to recreate > the area in the scratch; there were blank areas on the legs of one > person, which meant fixing the wrinkles over them, and so on. It's a > lot of small, little artistic decisions, which are necessary in order > to make things look right. Would other decisions work just as well? > Possibly. But the very act of restoration necessarily means making > such decisions. I know all this but at the present time the US courts seem to judge by intentions. -- geni _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
