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Amy K
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How to repair an old photograph?
« on: Thursday 23 September 04 19:40 UTC (UK) »
I have an old photograph of my grandad and his sisters. Will I be able to repair it myself digitally or will I need a "professional"?

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Re: How to repair an old photograph?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 23 September 04 19:43 UTC (UK) »
 Shocked

Oh Dear, sorry.

 I didn't mean to make it that big!!!
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Re: How to repair an old photograph?
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 23 September 04 19:48 UTC (UK) »
Hi
I had a photo repaired but professionally in the USA but since having mine done I came across this site in the UK

http://www.jigrah.co.uk/

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Re: How to repair an old photograph?
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 23 September 04 19:51 UTC (UK) »
Hi Amy, If you aren't in any rush for a perfect copy it is very simple to do it yourself. Make sure you work on a copy then it will not matter if you make a mistake.  
I have done it on a creased and torn photo and was very pleased it with it.
One tip i have is to enlarge the area you are going to work on untill it is very pixalated and you will find matching colours much easier.

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Re: How to repair an old photograph?
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 23 September 04 20:09 UTC (UK) »
I'd agree that you should do-it-yourself. Start with the faces; and as Steve says enlarge it so that it looks 'blocky'; It makes it easier to pick the 'right' tone and position out. Clothing and whatever can usually be well-disguised by smudging the creases.

The small print of most repair companies seem to that faces are too difficult (ie time-consuming) to do well. Be sure to show us the results.

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Re: How to repair an old photograph?
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 23 September 04 20:14 UTC (UK) »
Sit tight my hubby is going to repair it for you.  Smiley
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Re: How to repair an old photograph?
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 23 September 04 21:12 UTC (UK) »
How is this for a first attemp?

He said he will carry on with it tomorrow to remove some of the blemishes.
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Re: How to repair an old photograph?
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 23 September 04 22:06 UTC (UK) »
Wow, That is brilliant!!

Can he tell us how he did it??? So we can do others for ourselves? Which program did he use, for example?
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« Reply #8 on: Thursday 23 September 04 22:14 UTC (UK) »
Hi Amy, The programme i use is Adobe Photoshop Elemnts. As well as repairing photo's you can also alter the photo to look like a watercolour, etching etc. You can change the colour of peoples clothes. But best of all is you can take different people from photo's and put them into one so you can actually be seen in the same photograph as your GGG Granparents.  Shocked
Just mess about and experiment and you will soon get the hang of it.

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Re: How to repair an old photograph?
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 23 September 04 22:28 UTC (UK) »
Here is a good site for downloads which includes Irfanview which i do know a lot of people use.

http://www.download.com/3150-2192-0-1-0.html?qt=&author=&titlename=&desc=&dlcount=&daysback=&swlink=&gfiletype=&os=&li=49&dlsize=&ca=

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Re: How to repair an old photograph?
« Reply #10 on: Friday 24 September 04 05:23 UTC (UK) »
Hi Amy,

I had a fiddle with this i hope you dont mind.   I,m not very good but i think there is a little improvement. 

I use PSP 8 , you can download a free trial at www.jasc.com.  There are lots of tutorials on the net to restore old photographs, just do a google.

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« Reply #11 on: Friday 24 September 04 06:56 UTC (UK) »
Hi,
Gosh the repairs are really impressive I have several torn and wrinkly photos that I have been thinking about having repaired but the cost is so high!
Would  someone used to using computers - but not the photo thingys - be able to do this, all the help sites I've looked at are so complicated I give up!
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Re: How to repair an old photograph?
« Reply #12 on: Friday 24 September 04 07:00 UTC (UK) »
I would be willing to give it a go if you would like to send me PM with your e-mail address.


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Re: How to repair an old photograph?
« Reply #13 on: Friday 24 September 04 09:15 UTC (UK) »

I'd like to point out at this point that the only probelm with doing-it-yourself is getting the photo
scanned in in the first place.
It *can* be done on a relatively cheap scanner, but if you ever need to zoom in it looks 'blocky'.

Anyone within range of Halifax is welcome to contact me about using our 3200dpi scanner
if they bring the photos (or negatives) and a bottle (or two)  to pass the time.

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Re: How to repair an old photograph?
« Reply #14 on: Friday 24 September 04 09:27 UTC (UK) »
Just to clarify that, for those who didn't know:

your normal, cheap, special offer scanner usually has 200, or maybe 300 dpi (dots per inch)

So,  3200 dpi, WOW !!
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