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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: TROOPER ROLLO on Tuesday 02 February 21 15:47 GMT (UK)
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This is the only picture I could find of him and it is taken from an old book jacket.
He was born in 1886 at Wandsworth and died 1971 at Harrow.
He served in WW1 with the London Regiment and was badly wounded losing both feet.
Can anything be done to make him look a little more life like.
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With AI help for the upscaling.....
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Sorry. no AI
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Well done Handypandy. What a great result.
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Great result from Handypandy, just shows how an autommatic enhamcer can produce great results. I do not use an enhancer so here os my attempt.
Pat
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Great result from Handypandy, just shows how an autommatic enhamcer can produce great results. I do not use an enhancer so here os my attempt.
Pat
Trust me, I take no credit for the AI upscaling, which is why I mention it. :)
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Late one from me. :)
Peter
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Thank you to everyone that has contributed.
Your help is very much appreciated.
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(https://rttemppiclogs.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/1/135119465/george-ernest-rowles-gif_orig.gif)
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Chloe - what amazing technology! But that moving green line makes me dizzy.
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tech is great now, though I didn't use AI I used a series of overlays from my massive face library.
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Did you use Remini, Chloe?
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I said I don't use AI.
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Remini uses the same technique that you have described. It is actually AI. The system searches for likenesses from a large database of features and selects the nearest ones.
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No I do it by hand.
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Andy used AI and it's very similar to yours. Seems to take a lot of time to do it manually as a gif
I've just noticed that you're new here so Welcome :)
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There's nothing wrong with using AI. It's been around a long time in computing.
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I can't see the similarity but thanks for the welcome, mines the left 1.
(https://rttemppiclogs.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/1/135119465/gfdr_orig.jpg)
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Yours superimposed at 55% on Andy's.
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Mine 50 50 transparency over McGroger's, I don't see your point.
mine & andy's are the only 2 coloured may be thats what your seeing either way you can clearly see the detail in mine's done by hand I don't know any software AI that can put that level in.
(https://rttemppiclogs.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/1/135119465/5050_orig.jpg)
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Did Someone mention my name? ;)
Welcome from me, too, Chloe. (Or is it welcome back, Zoe? Apologies if you're not Zoe, Chloe. ;D)
Chloe, for the technically challenged - including me - if the OP likes your restore, how does he download it? (Otherwise we're missing the whole point of this board: to repair people's family history photos for them.)
Peter
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I'll mail it to them ;)
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Mine 50 50 transparency over McGroger's, I don't see your point.
mine & andy's are the only 2 coloured may be thats what your seeing either way you can clearly see the detail in mine's done by hand I don't know any software AI that can put that level in.
But I was using Andy's where he said he'd used AI and they are clearly similar I didn't mention Peter at all ???
You do seem very like Zoe :)
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Welcome back Zoe, it's one thing to use photo enhancing software to create a likeness, it's quite another to claim that the work is a hand worked photo restoration :-\ As a long standing restorer on here, I will give due credit to a great piece of honest restoration work.
In my opinion, to achieve that kind of result from such a tiny file is impossible without the aid of advanced technological photo enhancing.
Carol
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I don't know who you are but if you'd like the next time I enhance I can record how I do it, if you want to learn. :)
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Thank you for the offer but I prefer my restorations to reflect the age of the photo and not a modern reproduction.
You are obviously good at what you do but I enjoy repairing old photos using the information that is within the image, in keeping with the era that it was taken.
Carol
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What a choice you guys have given me.
There is some wonderful talent out there and I thank you all for your work.
I am delighted with the results.
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might as well jump in here ... I recently installed Windows 10 over my much abused Windows 7 and every update slowed it until with only paint.net running every Clone Stamp paused to SAVE, never happened in Win 7 ... so I kissed them both goodbye and installed a Linux Distro called Peppermint 10, absolutely brilliant and lightning fast. I downloaded GIMP and even after 4 months of trying it I was still not finding out how to do even the simplest task .... then I discovered Pixelitor (Free). So this is only my second offering .... a bit belated and sad to say only my artful intelligence to boot, cheers, Ian
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Thanks Ian,
I am at the stage now where I am sticking to what I have and what I can easily use.
There are so many new products I would not know where to start.
But thank you for your input.
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I'd still be using paint.net but they don't have a Linux version and GIMP overwhelms me. Pixelitor has a great feature which Restorers will appreciate, namely the Clone Stamp.
You select the Clone Stamp size, simply and speedily changed to suit, choose Hard or Soft and RIGHT-CLICK the area to be copied ... it stays fixed until you Right-click again ... and left-click to Copy wherever you wish. It just speeds up restoring damaged areas tenfold. The other tools are similar to other Photo Restore apps, but intuitive and simple, cheers, Ian
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Have any of you tried Pixlr? pixlr.com/editor (http://pixlr.com/editor).
it's free & online so no downloading any software.
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I clicked on your link and Firefox came up with a warning of 1 million compromised log-ins. It may be nothing to worry about but I closed the page promptly anyhow!
Have you used Pixelitor, if so, have you any tips re: colorization ?
cheers, Ian
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Thats odd the sites solid (see vid)
I've never used Pixelitor I'll look it up, I do all my editing in photoshop CS6
then I colorize pics on https://www.colorizephoto.com/converter (https://www.colorizephoto.com/converter) ( it's amazing )
pixlr tutorial on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xOCi_I5_Jc
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had a quick look at Colorize ... excellent. I'll try it out on a full photo after I've finished with my grandson's online school lesson and as usual he has chosen to create a hybrid character with different dino parents and now I'm supposed to be helping him resolve the features and appearances and functions. What little I know of dinosaurs I learned from him ( since he was 4, now he's 8 ) and there is not only nothing he doesn't know about them, he's even inventing his own hybrids and is convinced that eventually some archaeologists will discover proof of their existence in the fossil records. Oh! happy days. cheers, Ian