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Paul's Grandfather: Photo to be retouched


iDad

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Edit Paul's picture posted below.
Give it your best go!
 
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Re: YOUR PHOTO THREAD 20130507a: Your Favorite Photographs Of All Time

@iDad - I never have seen any print that benefited from being scanned above 600 dpi.

@Paul - What's the size of the print in inches?

However, if it's humanly possible, scan it in color (even tho it's B&W), scan it at 16 bpi bit depth, and save to a 16 bpi TIF, not an 8 bpi JPG.

If the surface is textured, in addition to the normal scan orientation, also scan it at around 10, 20, 40 and 90 degrees relative to square. The reason is because this most surface textures are at either 0, 30, 45, 60 or 90 degrees and scanning at oddball intermediate angles allows us to average out the surface texture in PS.

WRT to retouching, sure, the PSG regulars can fool around with it, but professional art conservators strongly adhere to the policy that one should always keep (ie, archive) an un-retouched version along with any retouched versions. There are many reasons for this, not the least of which is maintaining the veracity of the image, but also to allow for better re-touchers to come along in the future, likely with better software.

Cheers,

Tom
 
Re: YOUR PHOTO THREAD 20130507a: Your Favorite Photographs Of All Time

Original image is 5x3 the paper is Agfa print (which i only just looked for), i think it was taken as a works image for something?
 
Hey, Paul - the image you posted is only an 8 bpc JPG, and is only 600 pixels in the long direction. That's only 120 ppi. Any chance of getting another scan in the 300 - 600 dpi range before people devote effort to this?

Cheers,

Tom
 
Anyone is welcome to try and clean it up a little, but please show some respect it is of my dear old Grand Father.
 
Thanks guys very interesting results, with very nice applications of the tools used.
 
He was my hero when i was a young kid, my mate and tutor in life and drawing skills, what a man miss him dearly.
 

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