2009/9/17 Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com> > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke <wikipe...@zog.org> > wrote: > > I personally think image restoration is more like painting by numbers > than > > creative work. > > > > It's like "creating" an Ikea bookcase: there is some *skill* involved but > no > > artistic or creative input. And if it's done properly, there's no way of > > telling who did assembled the bookcase, or indeed restored the image. > > There is a lot more skill than 'painting by numbers' involved. One way > to tell is to look at the market for such skills. Look at the salaries > paid to a painter and to a skilled image restorer.
> Even if you can't do that, then the time involved is the clincher. It > may not be strictly speaking creative, but it does deserve > recognition. > I'm not disagreeing with you that it deserves recognition, and that it takes time. But as you say: it's not strictly creative. Assembling a thousand identical Ikea bookcases also takes time. :) I had my first FP on Labour Day and that was a restored image. When I submitted the restoration I knew full well that I was submitting it to a site that allowsall content to be reused commercially, and that no attribution was necessary. And I'm fine with that. > And in any cases, some aspects of restoration *are* creative (mainly > the ones that involve filling in missing material), but those can be > controversial. > Matter of interpretation. Take this portrait I restored: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Andrew_Curtin2.jpg Can you tell what I filled in? This is the original image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrew_Curtin.jpg Skill involved, sure. But no artistry. Adding a hand was an order of magnitude easier than adding the missing parts of his pants, by the way. :) Michel _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
