On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Peter Zalabai <[email protected]> wrote: > Well... not much you can do for mainly 2 reasons: > 1. Sharpness > The picture seems very soft... It's probably because of the age. > 2. The 'texture' > That's a really challenging task to remove, I would say you might need to > edit the picture almost pixel level and might need to re-paint some parts > > I am not a retouch expert but this is what I was able to do with the > picture: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26737283/picture0001_2.jpg > > Cheers,
Peter this is way better than i can get. I have been playing with despeckle and some bluring of the edges to soften the vertical lines still there. What method did you use. My time line is ASAP for this. Dave > .t > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David J Brooks" <[email protected]> > To: "Pentax Discuss" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Godfrey" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 6:17 PM > Subject: OT Picture fix help > > >> 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. >> >> Dave >> >> -- >> Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. >> www.caughtinmotion.com >> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >> York Region, Ontario, Canada >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
