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

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