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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Tin-type photos
« on: Wednesday 02 March 16 06:24 GMT (UK)  »
   I have scanned tin types quite effectively.  The problem you often encounter is that they tend to be very dark.  There is a program that I have used to correct these problems that is free and very user friendly.  If you have a computer that runs the Windows operating system Google ,Windows Live Photo Gallery. This program allows you to adjust for color, exposure, straighten the image, adjust and crop the image.  The best thing is that anything you do to the image can be undone at anytime by hitting the return to original image button.  You also have the ability to label every person in a photo and the metadata created when you do that goes along with the image when you share it with someone else.  Imagine receiving a group photo from someone and running your cursor over the image and seeing the names appear. I love this free program and recommend it to anyone who is trying to deal with historic photos. There is no sadder item to be had than an album of photos that are not labeled and the faces are unknown. 

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The Common Room / Re: Softening of the brain - what does this mean?
« on: Wednesday 02 March 16 06:07 GMT (UK)  »
 I had access to a book that had old no longer used medical terms and it basically said what I found when I Googled Softening of the Brain tonight.  I am interested because that is the cause of death of one of my great great grandfathers.  Here is what I found: Softening of the Brain, noun, informal archaic. Mental deteriation, especially senile dementia, supposedly resulting from degeneration of the brain tissues.   I think that all the ideas presented in this forum are valid.  I also think that since Alzheimers disease was not understood when this term was being used that this could easily have been what it describes as well.  My father had Alzheimers and we now know that the brain does go through deteriation of the tissues until certain brain processes now longer work.

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