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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2012 19:27:12 GMT
I have some wedding photos taken in 1967, they are in B&W is there a way you could update them in some way? jorg
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Post by vikingken on Feb 29, 2012 20:16:13 GMT
Do you mean reprint and improve or colour them Jorg?? Both are possible, but to do a half way decent job of colouring is a long job and wont produce a proper colour image. They will look like a Victorian lithographs. Just to smarten them up is quite easy, I do it all the time.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2012 16:12:23 GMT
ken, both I suppose , just made me wonder as things have improved so much.
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Post by vikingken on Mar 19, 2012 8:55:23 GMT
I scan at high resolution normally Jorg, but some black and white dont like too much resolution. That part can be a bit of trial and error, but at least its not a hard job. I use a scratch remover to hide cracks and that type of damage. I clone out bad patches; sometimes cloning from a similar picture, if I cant see what was in the original. You have to be a bit inventive, when pictures have big lumps out of them. Sometimes B & W get sepia coloured stains on them and I use a box camera filter to get rid of them. Something I found out by accident and not design. After using the filter, they normally need darkening a tiny bit before printing. It takes a little bit of time, but I've had quite a good success rate.
By scanning at the highest possible resolution, it gives you a chance of getting good head and shoulder pictures from groups. If you look in Pictures on the General board and Mums School Photo, you will see how its possible to do that. The original group photo was 6" x 8", I've actually printed 8" x 9" copys of her alone.
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