[Gimp-user] restoring faded transparencies

2009-02-22 Thread geoff
I was scanning a lot of colour transparencies, some taken up to 40 years ago, and found that in some cases the colours had deteriorated badly. After a lot of experimenting I have developed an automatic way of improving the digital scans using gimp. I have put a technical article, the gimp

Re: [Gimp-user] restoring faded transparencies

2009-02-22 Thread norman
I was scanning a lot of colour transparencies, some taken up to 40 years ago, and found that in some cases the colours had deteriorated badly. After a lot of experimenting I have developed an automatic way of improving the digital scans using gimp. I have put a technical article, the gimp

[Gimp-user] restoring faded transparencies

2009-02-22 Thread geoff
I was scanning a lot of colour transparencies, some taken up to 40 years ago, and found that in some cases the colours had deteriorated badly. After a lot of experimenting I have developed an automatic way of improving the digital scans using gimp. I have put a technical article, the gimp

Re: [Gimp-user] restoring faded transparencies

2009-02-22 Thread bgw
geoff wrote: I was scanning a lot of colour transparencies, some taken up to 40 years ago, and found that in some cases the colours had deteriorated badly. After a lot of experimenting I have developed an automatic way of improving the digital scans using gimp. I have put a technical

Re: [Gimp-user] restoring faded transparencies

2009-02-22 Thread saulgoode
Quoting geoff for...@gimpusers.com: I was scanning a lot of colour transparencies, some taken up to 40 years ago, and found that in some cases the colours had deteriorated badly. After a lot of experimenting I have developed an automatic way of improving the digital scans using gimp. I have

Re: [Gimp-user] restoring faded transparencies

2009-02-22 Thread Doug
geoff wrote: I was scanning a lot of colour transparencies, some taken up to 40 years ago, and found that in some cases the colours had deteriorated badly. After a lot of experimenting I have developed an automatic way of improving the digital scans using gimp. I have put a technical

Re: [Gimp-user] restoring faded transparencies

2009-02-22 Thread norman
snip I have a large collection of old slides showing all the problems you describe in your article to greater or lesser degree, so I was extremely interested in your post. I've downloaded your plugins. Unfortunately I get a Forbidden error when I try to download the readme.txt; and it's

Re: [Gimp-user] restoring faded transparencies

2009-02-22 Thread norman
snip I have no experience of UFRaw. If you can get your images into gimp my plug-in should work. I have just changed it to remove the saving of debug data. I will be interested in your experience. Geoff I have tried with the plug-in but, unfortunately, I cannot detect anything

Re: [Gimp-user] restoring faded transparencies

2009-02-22 Thread Tobias Jakobs
Hi, I have problems to open the readme.txt: http://www.lionhouse.plus.com/photosoftware/restore/readme.txt 403 Forbidden You don't have permission to access /photosoftware/restore/readme.txt on this server. On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:51, geoff for...@gimpusers.com wrote:

[Gimp-user] restoring faded transparencies

2009-02-22 Thread geoff
snip I have no experience of UFRaw. If you can get your images into gimp my plug-in should work. I have just changed it to remove the saving of debug data. I will be interested in your experience. Geoff I have tried with the plug-in but, unfortunately, I cannot detect anything

Re: [Gimp-user] restoring faded transparencies

2009-02-22 Thread norman
snip Sorry you are having problems. It sounds to me that you are confusing the batch_restore plug-in with the restore plug-in. The former is for doing a whole set of photographs. The latter is for a single one. Load the image into gimp and go to the restore menu at the top of the window.

Re: [Gimp-user] restoring faded transparencies

2009-02-22 Thread Alec Burgess
Tobias Jakobs (tobias.jak...@googlemail.com) wrote (in part) (on 2009-02-22 at 14:51): On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:51, geoff for...@gimpusers.com wrote: www.lionhouse.plus.com/photosoftware/restore. I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has worked on this problem and if you