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deadants
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Hi sandie,
First off, what software are you using to change the size of your photo's? Second can you scan the photo to a high resolution, 300dpi or greater?
Here's a link to a tutorial for resizing images. http://www.ibdhost.com/help/optimize/
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well sandie, you have done all the easy work first. This is a good start. I think the soldiers being fairly uniform, we may have to copy a fully intact soldiers and paste over the damaged areas. This of course brings up an issue of historical accuracy. Historians don't like people tampering with historical evidence such as photos, but as they are for your own personal use you can always put a note that explains that the photo has been restored and the original photo is still in it's unaltered state in an album etc.
I will have a close look at the damaged areas of your photo today sometime and see how I go.
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Here's my attempt at restoring the lines through the ranks. A fair bit of jiggery pokery was used here. lots of copying and pasting of soldiers. The overall effect isn't too bad, but if you blow it up you can see a few pixels are not quite right. But that's probably being too fastidious.
Was this photo taken in India or Africa? It's a great photo either way.
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Since image sizes are described in pixels and photo prints in inches, you have to convert from pixels to inches. To do so, you divide the image's dimension in pixels by the resolution of the device in pixels per inch (ppi). For example, to convert the dimensions for a 1500 x 1200 image being printed at 300 ppi you divide as follows:
Width: 1500 pixels ÷ 300 ppi = 5"
Height: 1200 pixels ÷ 300 ppi = 4"
The result is a 5" x 4" print. However, if the output device prints 600 ppi, the result changes to a 2.5" x 2" print as follows:
Width: 1500 pixels ÷ 600 ppi = 2.5"
Height: 1200 pixels ÷ 600 ppi = 2"
A 640 x 480 image displays or prints on devices with different dots per inch. At 72 ppi it's 8.9" x 6.7", at 300 ppi it's 2.1" by 1.6", and at 1500 ppi, it's only 0.43" x 0.32"—smaller than a stamp.
Check this link out if you want to know a bit more about scanning and file sizes.
http://www.scantips.com/no72dpi.html
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MancsMan
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Ken the Hobo - Photo by Migky
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Sorry folks just had to have a go myself
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Hilton - Wiltshire,Prestwich Manchester Millington-Manchester, Birmingham Harris - Manchester, Salford, Southern Rhodesia, Aston Manor Birmingham, Temple Balsall, Knowle. Jones-Higher Broughton, Cheetham Hill, Denbighshire Lawton - Prestwich, Manchester Smith-Manchester Carey - Manchester Cotterell - Lambeth, London Fletcher-Middleton, Manchester Capper - Manchester Census info is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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sandie
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Deadants, Tallted & Kenhar
Thank you all so much for your help and advice.
Deadants & Kenhar I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the pictures. I called my husband straight away to have a look - I usually bann everyone from the room when I'm on Rootschat - he was truly taken aback, they're fantastic. I can't see myself ever being able to achieve something like that.
I did try to take in the info., but I'm afraid it sailed straight over the top of my head.
As for the picture itself, it's a photo of my father-in-law's regiment taken in India. We don't know exactly when though, we know he went there in 1919 and believe he returned in 1928, but we can't find his records so it could be anytime between those dates.
Thank you all again.
Regards
Sandie
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Lewis & Davies in Glam.
Richards & Roberts, in Carmarthen & Glam.
Bowen & Morgans in Carm.
Walters & Mort in Glam.
Dinmore, in SE London (prev.Surrey & Kent), Lowestoft & Yorks.
Collier/Collyer, Tyler & Welch in SE London(prev.Surrey)
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Good job kenhar, you fixed that skyline up beautifully. I wasn't really happy with my skyline but I was concentrating on the soldiers. Between us all we have a pretty neat job on this one.
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Ken the Hobo - Photo by Migky
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Got Bored had to do something
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Hilton - Wiltshire,Prestwich Manchester Millington-Manchester, Birmingham Harris - Manchester, Salford, Southern Rhodesia, Aston Manor Birmingham, Temple Balsall, Knowle. Jones-Higher Broughton, Cheetham Hill, Denbighshire Lawton - Prestwich, Manchester Smith-Manchester Carey - Manchester Cotterell - Lambeth, London Fletcher-Middleton, Manchester Capper - Manchester Census info is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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