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Laverdiere
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Rosa St-Denis
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Hi deadants seeing what a great job you were able to do with Adobe Photo I downloaded the 30-day trial version from Adobe's website and being playing around with it (that's why I haven't been online). It is out of my budget right now so I might try that other you recommended.
I have a lot of faded old pictures which I would love to restore. If I get stuck I'll email again.
Being able to restore the faded print of William Wedderburn is a real gift as his picture is my 4th great-grandpa.
Thanks for your help! Laverdiere
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deadants
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Hi Laverdiere,
Is this your web site?
deadants
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/euroleader/wedderburn/settlers/georgerichard.htm
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Laverdiere
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Rosa St-Denis
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No it's a good Wedderburn website though. Laverdiere
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tabitha
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Hi,
Could you please give me some advice?? I have a locket which is about an inch high and contains two photos. Having checked with a jeweller I've been told under no circumstances to try to remove the photos as they and the locket are likely to suffer irrepairable damage, so...
Being at the "point and click" stage of photography, how can I take a good digital picture of the photos? (I have a Canon S40 camera). I would like to create a clearer picture as the end result.
Following are a couple of "efforts" to show you what I'm talking about! Any advice will be welcomed!!
Thank you
tabitha
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Bevan, Hill, Tustin, Watkins, Teague (Herefordshire, Radnorshire). Rockett, Lillycrap, Govett, Gready, Saunders (Somerset). Sussex, Smale (Devon). Oliver, Kennedy, Cummings, Wright (Co. Durham). Farish (Cumberland, Scotland). Cox (London, Middlessex, Buckinghamshire).
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Laverdiere
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Rosa St-Denis
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What a cool treasure!!
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tabitha
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Thanks Laverdiere, it is a treasure to me! The pictures are of my Great Grandmother & Great Grandfather and the locket was my Great Grans and passed to me via my Gran & my Mum.
Tabitha
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Bevan, Hill, Tustin, Watkins, Teague (Herefordshire, Radnorshire). Rockett, Lillycrap, Govett, Gready, Saunders (Somerset). Sussex, Smale (Devon). Oliver, Kennedy, Cummings, Wright (Co. Durham). Farish (Cumberland, Scotland). Cox (London, Middlessex, Buckinghamshire).
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tabitha
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Thanks Carmela...I hadn't thought of that 
Here are the same pictures scanned
Tabitha
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Bevan, Hill, Tustin, Watkins, Teague (Herefordshire, Radnorshire). Rockett, Lillycrap, Govett, Gready, Saunders (Somerset). Sussex, Smale (Devon). Oliver, Kennedy, Cummings, Wright (Co. Durham). Farish (Cumberland, Scotland). Cox (London, Middlessex, Buckinghamshire).
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deadants
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Hi tabitha,
Your two photos don't look to bad. Could you rescan them at a higher resolution. I'm not sure how savvy you are with a scanner but this is what you should do. After placing the locket on the scanner, do an initial preview scan. This will give the position of the locket on the platen. Next, select the locket with the selection tool. Then set the resolution to 600dpi then scan. Save the file as a jpeg, this will reduce the file size. Remember, it has to be 300Kb or less to post on the forum.
I will send you a PM with my email address and you can send them to me if the file size is to big. Remember the bigger the photo is the easier it is to work on.
See the example below. the whole compass is at 150dpi and the zoom in was at 1200dpi. You can really see the detail in the high resolution scan.
deadants
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tabitha
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Hi Deadants & Ted,
Thank you for trying to help out! I've learnt something already....how to increase the dpi on my scanner!! That'll tell you you're not dealing with a technical whizzkid here 
Below are the two pictures which I scanned at 1200dpi, saved at maximum quality then shrank to fit on here, they're so much clearer than my photographic attempts I'm quite amazed...I'll have to use my scanner more often!!
Cheers
Tabitha
P.S. Thanks for your pm's too.
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Bevan, Hill, Tustin, Watkins, Teague (Herefordshire, Radnorshire). Rockett, Lillycrap, Govett, Gready, Saunders (Somerset). Sussex, Smale (Devon). Oliver, Kennedy, Cummings, Wright (Co. Durham). Farish (Cumberland, Scotland). Cox (London, Middlessex, Buckinghamshire).
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Laverdiere
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Rosa St-Denis
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I downloaded the GIMP program and it looks lovely!
Your pics look great Tabitha.
Do you folks have any suggestions how to make my great-aunts in this picture become less unfaded. I already did and multiplied two layers which made the picture a bit darker but it is still very faint.
Thanks, Laverdiere
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deadants
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Do you folks have any suggestions how to make my great-aunts in this picture become less unfaded. I already did and multiplied two layers which made the picture a bit darker but it is still very faint.
Hi Laverdiere,
I could only see one in the bath. Unfortunately the other Girl is no longer recoverable.
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