OK, I'm replying to myself here and will attach my recent before and after work for comments.
I will post details of steps if anyone is interested but basically I relied on GMIC tools to achieve what I have here. Luckily, if I decide that this process might be worth pursuing with the rest of the photos, it is a fairly easy set of steps. To my eye at least, the after shot does a pretty good job of toning down the white areas that I complained about. You can still tell that the image is degraded but at least they are not so bright and distracting to the eye. If you look at the middle guy's chest area you will see that my result does not solve the problem of lost detail and I don't expect there to be any way to regain what has been lost. That is just what I have to accept. I just wish the negatives had survived! My 93 year old aunt did not even know this album existed when I showed it to her for the first time so it apparently is something that my grandfather put away and never displayed. She has no idea what ever might have happened to the negatives so I don't ever expect to find them at this point. OTOH, I did actually find 2 negatives mixed in with other more recent photos my grandfather took which have survived, so I think the disappearance happened later rather than that they never made it home from France. I'm still definitely willing to listen to any other advise anyone has but please take a look at my two attachments "Original" being the original scan and "Method 1" being my GMIC work. Comments appreciated!!! Paul Attachments: * http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/432/original/Original.tif * http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/433/original/Method_1.tif -- paulhurm (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ 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
