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Topic: Photo Restoration and Colourising. (Read 9785 times)
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Tariana
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thanks. I used a program that came with my old computer. I lost it when I got a virus  Lost everything but windows when I took it to be fixed.
I don't know what year the car is. I didn't even know it was a pontiac. Cars aren't my forte' From the little girl, I'm guessing aged about 5. So the photo would be dated about 1952.
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deadants
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Well I don't Know what year the photo was taken but that's about a 1941 Pontiac with the Pontiac Indian hood ornament. 
The colorurizing is coming along nicely. you just need to concentrate on the detail a little more to get that realistic effect. I removed the blue from the chrome trim to show you what I mean.
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deadants
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I downloaded Paint.net which has layering options but I don't understand it! I want to remove the stains in this pictures how do I do that? Thanks, Laverdiere
Well I have played around with Pain't.Net and found that it just to limiting. So I download The Gimp that a lot of others seem to have done. This proram is a million miles ahead of paint.Net.
The Gimp has a complete set of Layer modes, which was the first thing I looked at when I installed it. It's brush selection is full featured and the clone tone tool has lots of features that will work wonders on any photo.
Do yourself a favor and download Gimp.
Here's a tutorial for Gimp doing colorizing http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Selective_Color/
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Paul E
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Hi deadants
Before I splash out on a package for photo manipulation, I would like to try one for free. Would you recommend the Gimp as one which will allow me to transfer skills into other packages that I might buy, or would I have to learn a lot of new procedures over again?
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Paul
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deadants
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Hi Paul,
I had a play with Gimp today, at a glance it has a lot of the features that Adobe Photoshop has so it should be a good program to cut your teeth on. Look at Adobe photoshop Elements for a shop bought package. It does most things It's big brother does but at fraction of the cost.
Read this before you downoad Gimp.
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/faq.html
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Paul E
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Hi deadants
Those FAQs scared me witless!  Am I going to get a stack of error messages?? Maybe I should go for the Adobe Elements...
Anyway - good news is I bought me a scanner this morning so am looking forward to setting that up tonight - may even be able to post a decent image of the group photo I have.
best wishes
Paul
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Paul E
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Hi ted
Thanks for this - I definately am at the fooling around stage - but as suggested, I'd like to use something to fool around with that I can hopefully transfer my skills across to another product if I decide to take it further. The Gimp certainly looked interesting, apart from the FAQs! 
Paul
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deadants
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Great to hear Paul.
What type of scanner is it? and did it come with any graphic software?
Don't let the FAQ scare you, what you need do is download and install the GTK+2 runtime environment. Then you can download and install The Gimp v2.2.4
Don't panic we can talk you through it.
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Paul E
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Hi deadants
Nothing fancy in terms of a scanner - an Epson combined printer scanner. I've had my first go (as you have seen elsewhere in the Common Room - you;re right: its certainly not a Koala bear: I guess you should know! )
Now all I've got to do is raid my mother's photo album next time I'm in Durham!
May give the Gimp a go (even though the name's very Reservoir Dogsy!)
cheers
Paul
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deadants
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Paul, do you have broardband? I guess you do, judging by the amout of time your online. Have a look at the demo video of Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 here.
http://www.adobe.co.uk/products/photoshopelwin/main.html
or download the trial version here.
http://www.adobe.co.uk/products/tryadobe/reg_photoshopelements3.0wintryout.html
It has very attractive features and dead easy to use.
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