I'd guess that a good contrasty print of any of those versions offered would make an acceptable framed print at 'prox a 5x7 and fit just fine on the piano.
Jack --- On Wed, 5/25/11, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT Picture fix help > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 9:52 PM > > On May 25, 2011, at 10:33 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: > > > > > On May 25, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > > > >> > >> OK, I took the FFT processed result and did some > spot-cloning, noise reduction (Noiseware Pro), two passes of > Smart Sharpening and finally levels to improve black level > and contrast/brightness ... > >> > >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2254722/picture0001-filtered2a.jpg > >> > >> Printed at a modest size on metallic paper, this > would probably look pretty good. > >> > >> -bmw > > > > Dave, in reading through this thread and seeing > other's efforts, it seems that there are two different > issues. One is that the photo is old, somewhat degraded, and > wasn't all that great to begin with. The second has to do > with the process and quality of the scan. I think Bruce has > made major improvements to the image, but most of his > efforts were to overcome a bad scan. If your friend really > is serious, she should have you or someone else redo the > scan. Even then you have the quality of the (degraded) image > to deal with. The wear and tear can be dealt with, Bruce and > others have shown that. The main thing, though, based on > experience working with 1890's photos from my wife's family, > is to remember that it is what it is. If you could make it > look clean and sharp and with more contrast, it will no > longer look like an old family photo. > > > > stan > > I think the scan is probably okay. There's a lot of detail > in the texture of the photo paper. If the scan was soft, the > texture wouldn't show that much detail. I suspect the print > is as soft as the scan in terms of the subect detail. I > doubt that anything better than what Bruce has done is > possible without going to extreme measures. > Paul > > > > -- > > 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. > -- 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.
