That could work. Especially if those streaks are part of the paper it's
printed on.
Paul Stenquist said the streaks are caused by it being printed on some
kind of textured paper. I've seen textured papers, but never one with
that kind of parallel lines.
Not disagreeing, just never seen a textured paper like that.
What I have seen was back when I was running the mini-lab, customers
would sometimes come in with family photos they didn't want to take out
of the frame, so they would try to scan them through the glass.
They'd get streaky results similar to what I see in this scan. I think
the two glass surfaces together caused some kind of interference
pattern, especially if the frame caused there to be an air gap between
the two glasses.
When I could get them to take the photos out of the frame and scan them
directly, they'd get much better scans.
From: "Ken Waller"
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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