On Tue, 2016-11-22 at 17:52 +0100, Denzo wrote: > > > In the photo I was working on the photo was so poor in places that I > couldn't > actually see much detail - so not a lot to lose.
There's more than you might think, especially if you can scan at 16 bits per channel (16 bit grey or 48 colour), and are using rawtherapee or darktable or the unstable 2.9 gimp. > My restoration attempt isn't > perfect but I think looks far better. You've lost some detail in the shadows but you've done really well in the lower right. There are books about restoring old photos in PhotoShop and many of the same techniques work in GIMP too. One technique I've used that may help is to scan the picture twice, rotating it through 90 or 100 degrees for the 2nd scan. This puts the reflected light at a different angle. Then open the first scan in gimp, and use file->open as layers to bring in the 2nd, and experiment with different layer modes or with making the top layer 50% opaque, in the Layers dockable dialogue thingy. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin <[email protected]> http://www.fromoldbooks.org - words an dpictures from old books _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: [email protected] List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
