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sandie
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Help needed to clean this up.
« on: Thursday 15 September 05 21:18 BST (UK) »

Hi,

A while ago someone very kindly looked up a Canadian newspaper report for me and sent me photocopies, as an added bonus they carried a photograph of my husband's late uncle, but as you can see it's very 'bitty'.

I have tried, several times, to clean it up but each time it gets worse. I would really appreciate it if someone could clean it up a bit.

Thanks
Sandie

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Re: Help needed to clean this up.
« Reply #1 on: Friday 16 September 05 15:15 BST (UK) »

I hope this helps a bit.

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Beard,Voyce,Scrivens inWorcestershire

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« Reply #2 on: Friday 16 September 05 15:27 BST (UK) »

Thats improved it no end, glad you stayed.
I'm allright with the colouring in stuff Grin


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Re: Help needed to clean this up.
« Reply #3 on: Friday 16 September 05 15:55 BST (UK) »

http://www.wrinklytech.co.uk/mystuff/canadaoil.jpg

This link will only be of interest to those who allow artistic licence to be used.
The image is not true to the ethos of photo restoration, therefore I have posted on my own server.

Answers on a postcard please.


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Beard,Voyce,Scrivens inWorcestershire

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« Reply #4 on: Friday 16 September 05 18:36 BST (UK) »

That looks a lot better.

I followed your link, it looks brilliant!

Thank you very much.

Regards
Sandie


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« Reply #5 on: Friday 16 September 05 19:27 BST (UK) »

New to this.
Saw your picture & had a go at 'enhancing' it before realising that someone else had done so.
I tried to retain the facial features with gaussian blur overlays and recursive despeckle overlays. I replaced the background - do you photo restorers frown upon this?

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« Reply #6 on: Friday 16 September 05 20:03 BST (UK) »

It looks ok to me, for a newbie like myself.
And the one thing I have found since being on here, sometimes the work load gets busy.
I am sure in the weeks ahead we will see many more coming on board.


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sandie
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« Reply #7 on: Friday 16 September 05 20:18 BST (UK) »

That looks great.

I just wish I could do it. I tried the gaussian blur etc., the end result looked like his spirit saying "what on earth are you doing to me?"

As for seeing someone else had already had a go, that's the great thing about being on here, everyone has a go, different techniques, different results. Brilliant!

Thanks again
Sandie


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« Reply #8 on: Sunday 18 September 05 18:44 BST (UK) »

A Canadian woman on the Great War Forum does excellent work on newspaper photo's and obits etc.
this is how she says she does it - as I have NO idea myself thought maybe you guys would like to try !!

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I use PhotoShop to improve the newspaper articles. I remove the speckling and other marks with the eraser tool, then adjust brightness/contrast. I've then created a faux old newspaper layer that I overlay then "multiply" then adjust to 55%. This adds additional contrast to the text. If anyone wants that file I can email it. But that works best with the OCR items. For microfiche - I'm unable do much with that. If the newspaper clipping looks really bad, I retype it into the newspaper layer mentioned above.

I can give you more info about her if you're interested!

Annie


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« Reply #9 on: Sunday 18 September 05 19:37 BST (UK) »

Annie

I'm sure the others on here will find the info. very useful. Personally I was alright until the end of the second sentence, after that it sailed blissfully over the top of my head. I have made a note of it all though, in the hope that one day I'll understand it.

Regards
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« Reply #10 on: Sunday 18 September 05 22:52 BST (UK) »

More please
If this is any good then it is a must in our line of interest
Denn


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Re: Help needed to clean this up.
« Reply #11 on: Monday 19 September 05 09:52 BST (UK) »

This is my understanding of what she's saying, it sounds like a
reconstruction method for news text rather than a restoration method
suitable for photographs. I paraphrase: -
Using photoshop, I use the eraser tool to remove background noise, then
maximise the text / background contrast with the brightness & contrast
controls.
I then add an extra layer with a simulated newspaper print look, and blend
the news layer in multiply mode with an opacity setting of 55%. Using the
news layer adds authenticity to text that needs to be extracted using OCR
or where the image quality precludes OCR, retyping the text.


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