Message-ID: <1335798820.87701.YahooMailClassic@web113205.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:13:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Historical Society <wausharamuseum@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: photo enhancer
When someone donated some black & white negatives to our museum, I tried sc
anning a negative, saved it as "negative" and then opened it in Adobe Photo
Deluxe Business Edition v. 1.0 which I like much better than Adobe Photosh
op 4.0 as it is easier to use and you can work with it much better. I was a
ble to try "special effects" and one of the effects was "change photo to ne
gative". I figured that if it could do that it could do the reverse and cha
nge a negative to a photo, and so I tried it. Sure enough, it reversed dark
to light and light to dark and I could see a faded photo. Then I used the
touch up program where you can adjust the brightness and contrast. By addin
g contrast and lowering the brightness I was able to get a fairly good resu
lt that could be printed out. Photo Deluxe also has Intllifix, but I find t
hat that usually results in a sharper but more grainy photo, so it is best
to just do it manually with sharpness, contrast, and brightness
controls where you can instantly see the results before you save it.
Bruce Runnels, Curator
Waushara County Historical & Genealogical Society
221 S Saint Marie St., PO Box 616
Wautoma, WI 54982-0616
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directory/waushara-county-historical-society.html
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--- On Fri, 4/27/12, Russ Hanson <russhanson@grantsburgtelcom.net> wrote:
From: Russ Hanson <russhanson@grantsburgtelcom.net>
Subject: Re: photo enhancer
To: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu
Date: Friday, April 27, 2012, 9:56 AM
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:03:01 -0500, "Marcie" <cen95870@centurytel.net>
wrote:
> Looking to find a person or company who could refine and enhance
> some of our old faded photos. We are in northern Wisconsin. Marcella A
> Braski Pres. Knox Creek Heritage Ctr Brantwood WI
-- Russ Hanson riverroadrambler@gmail.comBasic enhancing of photos is very easy nowadays. You need to scan the photo into your computer at reasonably high resolution (meaning 600 dots per inch or more if it is a good detailed photo) and then use one of the many programs to enhance them--often quite automatic. A very simple free one is Picasa -- you download it to your computer and can play with the image contrast, brightness etc. If the photo is flaked, torn, or otherwise in bad physical condition, it becomes much more effort to repair it. Faded photos are wonderfully easy to bring back to life if the detai l is still visible. Can you scan them at your location? If so, then you can send the digital photos to someone by email and let them do it. You might en list a student in HS to help. Most kids nowadays are amazingly good at photo manipulation. You can even do this kind of thing at the local kiosk at your local store that prints computer photos. Ask the clerk to help you figure out what the machine their can do.
Russ Hanson riverroadrambler@gmail.com Polk County WI -- Sterling Eureka and Laketown Historical Society and several more.