I scanned and restored some new family pics today

Prisoner_Number_Six

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Sat Jan-19-08 09:30 PM
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I scanned and restored some new family pics today

with my shiny new high-rez photo scanner. Hope you enjoy the results.

Mother As Young Woman

Aunt Wilma And Cat

Big Brother Charlie

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Skittles

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Sat Jan-19-08 09:33 PM
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1. AWESOME!

come on PN6, re-post that one pic - you know the one - for those who have never seen it. Yes INDEED!!!

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Prisoner_Number_Six

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Sat Jan-19-08 09:39 PM
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4. Not certain this is the one, but you'll tell me if I'm wrong

Mother And Father

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Skittles

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Sat Jan-19-08 09:44 PM
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8. OMG *swoon*

yup - man, that is sooooo romantic :)

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IzaSparrow

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Sat Jan-19-08 09:49 PM
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11. yowza!

then came pn6 9mo later

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Prisoner_Number_Six

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Sat Jan-19-08 09:53 PM
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12. ...right after two brothers and two sisters...

:shrug:

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IzaSparrow

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Sat Jan-19-08 10:22 PM
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18. ...

:rofl: funny how that happens. hmm

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CaliforniaPeggy

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Sat Jan-19-08 09:34 PM
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2. My dear Prisoner_Number_Six !

Oh, those are wonderful!

Your mom is so sharp and vivid, the picture I mean...

And your aunt with the cat! She looks weary...

I love the one of your brother too...

He looks like he's eating the rest of his fingernails...

I look forward to seeing more!

:hi:

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Prisoner_Number_Six

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Sat Jan-19-08 09:41 PM
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7. Aunt Wilma is 96 and still alive.

She does live in a nursing home, but she still kicks ass (in a figurative sort of way)... :evilgrin:

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qnr

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Sat Jan-19-08 09:36 PM
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3. Very, very nice. n/t

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Viva_La_Revolution

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Sat Jan-19-08 09:40 PM
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5. Those look great!

I just scanned several I had, more than a few are in pretty bad shape.. What program did you use to restore them? I have promised Gram a late Xmas present of all of them, but I would like to fix a few first. Is there any way to "focus" cheap pictures taken on a 110 in the 70's? lol.

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Prisoner_Number_Six

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Sat Jan-19-08 09:45 PM
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9. I use Photoshop for all my photo manipulation.

I still use V5.5, even though it's old and out of date- with version 6 they completely changed the interface, but I still prefer the old way. :shrug:

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Redstone

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Sat Jan-19-08 10:06 PM
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15. I'll be an egg-suckin' dog; I still use PS 5.5 for my daily stuff too! I like it because

I can jump right into it and get to work without all the interface / tool palette madness of CS2.

I'll use the CS2 if I need one of its features, but for the day-to-day work (I do a lot of clipping paths in product photography), 5.5 can't be beat for smoothness of workflow.

So I'm NOT the only Photoshop Dinosaur left. That's good to know.

(PS: I also still use Quark 3.32, and Illustrator 6. I hate - I absolutely DESPISE - every version of Illustrator after 6. And I've produced, I'd guess, over 5,000 drawings / illustrations / logos with Illustrator.)

Redstone

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Prisoner_Number_Six

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Sat Jan-19-08 10:14 PM
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17. Just 'cause it's old doesn't mean it doesn't do the job.

I absolutely HATE when they suddenly decide to reinvent the entire user interface (can you say VISTA???). For my every day photo drag and drop viewing I still use an old Win95 version of LView Pro. It's also a great program for re-saving jpeg files to obtain a smaller file size.

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Redstone

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Sat Jan-19-08 10:27 PM
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19. What drives me effin' nuts about Adobe, is when they change the keyboard commands.

that's just wrong. And is slows me WAY down.

(PS: I don't use Windows, but you'll probably understand when I tell you that my day-to-day workstations still runs System 9. I only have one OS X machine, and I only use it when I need to.)

Redstone

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China_cat

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Sat Jan-19-08 09:55 PM
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13. See if you can find someone with a scanner

that will scan negatives and set it for a high resolution. If you can find one that will let you to save in RAW format, that would be even better. RAW cures a -lot- of ills.

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Redstone

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Sat Jan-19-08 10:09 PM
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16. That's pretty much a lost cause. The reason 110 film disappeared was because

the negs were so small, they simply did not contain enough "information" to produce a decent picture, whether by analog (an enlarger) or digital (a scanner) production processes.

Ditto the Kodak "disc camera." With negatives about the size of a piece of confetti, there just wasn't enough of an image to produce even a wallet-size picture that didn't look like crap.

Redstone

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Viva_La_Revolution

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Sat Jan-19-08 11:09 PM
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20. it's so sad..

most of my childhood is on 110. :cry: The family pics taken in the late 1800's have better resolution! :(

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Redstone

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Sat Jan-19-08 09:41 PM
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6. Very nice, indeed. Epson scanner, or Microtec?

Redstone

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Prisoner_Number_Six

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Sat Jan-19-08 09:46 PM
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10. Epson Perfection V500 Photo scanner.

I plan to add this as a service through my company.

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Redstone

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Sat Jan-19-08 09:59 PM
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14. Excellent idea. The camera store in my town does a booming business in

restoration scanning. There are SO many people who want half a dozen old pictures restored, which is not enough to justify buying the scanner and software, and going through the learning curve.

That restoration software, from what I understand, is pretty miraculous in the way it can do what used to take six or eight Photoshop hours to do, and do it quite well.

Good luck with offering that as a service. I think you'll do well with it.

Redstone

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