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  1. Posts : 842
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64 - OEM Service Pack 1
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    Help please with this important Picture


    Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, feel free to move to the correct forum.

    I have attached a picture of my father back in his hey day, sadly the colour and quality are quite bad. I was wondering if any of you Graphic Guru's could work some magic on it and try to improve it for me, I would be most grateful as this picture has only recent resurfaced after about 35 years and it would be great to have a decent copy of it.


    Many thanks in advance


    Steve
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  2. Posts : 5,440
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
       #2

    Am looking at this one for you Steve. Perhaps a mod could move it to "Music, Pictures and Video"
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  3. Arc
    Posts : 35,373
    Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview 64-bit
       #3

    is it any good Steve ? Though Nick or Dom may do it better
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  4. Posts : 14,606
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7600
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    this is a toughy best i can do at present
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  5. Dom
    Posts : 2,295
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    I've tried...
    Help please with this important Picture-steve-pressman-dad.jpg
    Not sure if its any better though
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  6. Posts : 182
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    steve-pressman said:
    Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, feel free to move to the correct forum.

    I have attached a picture of my father back in his hey day, sadly the colour and quality are quite bad. I was wondering if any of you Graphic Guru's could work some magic on it and try to improve it for me, I would be most grateful as this picture has only recent resurfaced after about 35 years and it would be great to have a decent copy of it.


    Many thanks in advance


    Steve
    If i may so bold as to ask what medals he has and the distinction of his red coat?
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  7. Posts : 842
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64 - OEM Service Pack 1
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       #7

    The medals I only know are what he won during the World War 2 as to the red coat it is a Toastmaster's uniform info here


    Toastmaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    http://www.toastmastersguild.org.uk/

    Steve
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  8. Posts : 5,440
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
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    Well I have had a quick go and to explain. I noticed that at the two sides and the top there was a distinct darker line. Rather than try to make this match the surroundings I cropped it off! I then used a couple of effects with color adjustment and levels then the very slightest unsharp mask. Have posted the result below with a before and after shot. Hope nobody ask which is which
    I am going to have a further go at the RGB adjust, but will leave that till tomorrow as I find nowadays I need a fresh pair of eyes for this sort of thing and it is better done at the beginning of the day.
    I guess the original has been scanned Steve. Do you know if you can scan to a PNG or preferably a Tif file. If so I will come back to you as when you scan and save to a JPEG you immediately compress the image thereby loosing a little quality and with an older photo like this that has has UV light to it we can't afford to loose any quality at all. A tif will be a bigger file but it will be uncompressed.
    All fun here innit!

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  9. Posts : 1,040
    XP MCE .... XP Pro 64 .... W7 U x64
       #9

    It would help if you could attach a higher resolution Scan ...
    326 pixels wide isn't much to work with.
    300DPI would be nice .. 600DPI if it's a small picture.
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  10. Posts : 4,663
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
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    Problem is that the Azo dyes have faded with time and also changed colour and spread.
    Therefore there isn't much info to play with in the image. How about these:
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