Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 09:03:11 -0500 Message-ID: <CAPVyzFDxymyvk4tqvfPan5X=q+jZ=_LO=X0aT4dLf_mQWO5w1A@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: photo enhancer From: "rpdooley tds.net" <rpdooley@tds.net>
For those who want to do their own photo scanning and touch-up I suggest a *
free*, as in no cost, open source program called GIMP (gimp.org).
GIMP is the *G*NU *I*mage *M*anipulation *P*rogram and has Windows, Mac,
and Linux downloads available on its website. It rivals Photoshop in it
its features. There are many tutorial web sites for those interested in
learning to use the program.
Roger Dooley
Monticello Area Historical Society
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Historical Society <
wausharamuseum@yahoo.com> wrote:
> When someone donated some black & white negatives to our museum, I tried
> scanning 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
> Photoshop 4.0 as it is easier to use and you can work with it much better.
> I was able to try "special effects" and one of the effects was "change
> photo to negative". I figured that if it could do that it could do the
> reverse and change 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 adding contrast and lowering the brightness I was able to get
> a fairly good result that could be printed out. Photo Deluxe also has
> Intllifix, but I find that 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
> Museum websites: www.museumsusa.org/museums/info/1159486
> http://www.yelp.com/biz/waushara-county-historical-museum-wautoma
> http://wausharamuseum.angelfire.com/wausharamuseum/
>
> http://www.wausharachamber.com/waushara-area-chamber-of-commerce-member-directory/waushara-county-historical-society.html
> Linked In Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/waushara-museum/1a/a9/b60
>
> --- 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<cen95870@centurytel.net">http://mc/compose?to=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.com<riverroadrambler@gmail.com">http://mc/compose?to=riverroadrambler@gmail.com>
>
> Basic 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 detail
> 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 enlist 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<riverroadrambler@gmail.com">http://mc/compose?to=riverroadrambler@gmail.com>
>
> Polk County WI -- Sterling Eureka and Laketown Historical Society and
> several more.
>
>
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