On May 25, 2011, at 10:33 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: > > On May 25, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > >> >> OK, I took the FFT processed result and did some spot-cloning, noise >> reduction (Noiseware Pro), two passes of Smart Sharpening and finally levels >> to improve black level and contrast/brightness ... >> >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2254722/picture0001-filtered2a.jpg >> >> Printed at a modest size on metallic paper, this would probably look pretty >> good. >> >> -bmw > > Dave, in reading through this thread and seeing other's efforts, it seems > that there are two different issues. One is that the photo is old, somewhat > degraded, and wasn't all that great to begin with. The second has to do with > the process and quality of the scan. I think Bruce has made major > improvements to the image, but most of his efforts were to overcome a bad > scan. If your friend really is serious, she should have you or someone else > redo the scan. Even then you have the quality of the (degraded) image to deal > with. The wear and tear can be dealt with, Bruce and others have shown that. > The main thing, though, based on experience working with 1890's photos from > my wife's family, is to remember that it is what it is. If you could make it > look clean and sharp and with more contrast, it will no longer look like an > old family photo. > > stan
I think the scan is probably okay. There's a lot of detail in the texture of the photo paper. If the scan was soft, the texture wouldn't show that much detail. I suspect the print is as soft as the scan in terms of the subect detail. I doubt that anything better than what Bruce has done is possible without going to extreme measures. Paul > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
