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Re: HELP PLEASE! Really grim photo needs restoring
« Reply #18 on: Monday 13 September 10 07:30 BST (UK) »
Hello Emjaybee
Might be a mock up to you but it's amazing to me!! A big thank you. I can imagine it must have taken a lot of work.
I appreciate your efforts~thanks again
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« Reply #19 on: Monday 13 September 10 07:37 BST (UK) »
Cheryl16 that's a BRILLIANT idea! Thank you....I shall seek out the appropriate newspaper and submit a photo. I understand a couple of restorers are working on the image so once a suitable one comes along I'll be on the case ASAP.
Thanks again.

I have just had an idea... if you know that one of the people in the picture was on patrol in the Abbey Road area, have you thought about getting in touch with the local paper and asking them to run an " who is this?" article. They crop up in our local paper fairly regularly. Someone might see who can help.
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« Reply #20 on: Monday 13 September 10 17:22 BST (UK) »
Hi,

Deleted previous restore, I've made a couple of tweaks.  Finals attached.

Cheers, David.
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« Reply #21 on: Tuesday 14 September 10 07:22 BST (UK) »
Hello David,
Amazing results. I cannot believe the difference and that it's all possible. Thank you very much for your work which has made a grotty specimen of family history into something we can now relish and work from.
I'm most grateful.
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« Reply #22 on: Tuesday 05 October 10 15:55 BST (UK) »
 :) Just to let you know that i dont normally have time for this sort of thing as it keeps me busy during my day job restoring old photos but this one caught my eye and I am working on it. Here is where I am at so far. I am working a little bit a time between jobs.

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This is just the low res version and the finished version should be available soon, Ill let you have it when im done!

Kind Regards

Neil Rhodes

Hello David,
Amazing results. I cannot believe the difference and that it's all possible. Thank you very much for your work which has made a grotty specimen of family history into something we can now relish and work from.
I'm most grateful.

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Re: HELP PLEASE! Really grim photo needs restoring
« Reply #23 on: Sunday 15 May 11 16:02 BST (UK) »
 ..
g grandfather Thomas Borthwick 11/11/1882 - KIA 25/9/1915 aged 33 Kings Own Scottish Borderers

Brothers & cousins to Thomas (Both KIA same day)
Robert Johnstone Borthwick 1898 - KIA 24/3/1918 aged 21 North Staffordshire Regiment

George Lowden Borthwick 1899 - KIA 24/3/1918 aged 19 Royal Scots Fusiliers

gr Uncle Walter Combe b1893 - KIA 12/7/1915 aged 22  Kings Own Scottish Borderers

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Re: HELP PLEASE! Really grim photo needs restoring
« Reply #24 on: Sunday 15 May 11 16:20 BST (UK) »
001UK very sorry but during the time here and my last post I had some computer trouble and have lost the restore! Hope you can use what i did so far.

Terry Hastie - If I have a photo thats a passport photo thats 1 inch square but really god quality and I can scan at your recommended 300dpi but it want it reproduced to 10x8? how does that work?

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« Reply #25 on: Sunday 15 May 11 16:40 BST (UK) »
This photo of mine is 2" by 1 1/2" ( I just went and measured it) scanned at 300 and the restores printed out just dandy at a MUCH large size.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,386160.0.html

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Pity you lost the restore ;)
g grandfather Thomas Borthwick 11/11/1882 - KIA 25/9/1915 aged 33 Kings Own Scottish Borderers

Brothers & cousins to Thomas (Both KIA same day)
Robert Johnstone Borthwick 1898 - KIA 24/3/1918 aged 21 North Staffordshire Regiment

George Lowden Borthwick 1899 - KIA 24/3/1918 aged 19 Royal Scots Fusiliers

gr Uncle Walter Combe b1893 - KIA 12/7/1915 aged 22  Kings Own Scottish Borderers

Census &  BMD information Crown Copyright  GROS - www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

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Re: HELP PLEASE! Really grim photo needs restoring
« Reply #26 on: Sunday 15 May 11 17:41 BST (UK) »
Thank you for bringing this back to the top  :D

It may take a while but I'll have a go. This is the type of challenge I enjoy. Don't know why I never came back to it



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