If you could use your K10 to copy thye original you'll probably get a better
result that wotking on that scan.
I've had very satisfactory results copying old family B+W prints with my
K20.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Sessoms" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 5:19 PM
Subject: RE: OT Picture fix help
From: David J Brooks
A good friend of mine has a scan of an old family photo in pretty
rough shape and asked me last night if i could help fix it. I just got
the scan a few moments ago:
http://www.caughtinmotion.com/picture0001.jpg
and had a quick look. I'm not even sure i know how to go about
touching this up. I told he i would look and at least try.
Any comments or help.
She tried to send a large Tiff file but on dial up the 24mb photo
would not load so she just sent me a 2.5 MB jpg.
Any help is appreciated.
It looks to me like the photo was still in the frame behind glass when
they scanned it. I think that's what causes all those vertical stripes
across the image. I think it causes the image itself to be mighty soft.
Although it could be that converting it from the TIFF file to a JPEG
accentuated something that's not as apparent in the TIFF.
If so, is there any chance they could take the photo out of the frame and
scan the old print directly?
That might give them better resolution with fewer detail robbing
artifacts. I understand they might be worried about how the photo would
stand up to handling, but I don't think they're going to get an acceptable
scan otherwise.
Also might be worth asking her to send a large TIFF file to you on a disk
if she can't upload it or email it.
There's a lot of things you could do to it to enhance it/restore it, if
you can get rid of those vertical stripes on the image.
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