There are so many things that can go wrong with old photos. I’ve encountered mildew, tears, folds, discoloration, sun bleaching, water stains. The list goes on and on.
The point of photo restoration is to get rid of these problem areas and reconstruct the photograph to their original state.
The easiest way to do this is with Adobe Photoshop. If you wish to use a cheaper alternative, there’s GIMP (free) and Paintshop Pro.
Although major missing parts of photos can’t be replaced, i.e. entire areas torn off, you can get rid of stains easily with the clone stamp and extract filter in Photoshop. Stay tuned as I go through an example restoration in upcoming posts.
- dodgeball tournament @ 7 am (6th place out of 27) – Steve & i went to mom and dads – hung out with Don and Ann – went to battle of the bands – boring so i played football on the beach with strangers – went back to parents house and sat for a minute – around 10 pm came home – had drama waiting for me – dealt with drama – talked to Erin for awhile – talked to Garet for a minute – Tony called @ 3:00 am – had to go pick his drunk ass up – back home 4:30 am – going to sleep. pretty sure i’m not forgetting anything.
Bill Frisell’s latest album Blues Dream arrived in the mail today and it only confirmed what I suspected. I have got to get more Frisell.
blogdex is a spider that crawls blogs and generates a list of the most linked to sites. Ten bucks says blogdex itself is number one by tomorrow.
Great roadtrip article by Mark Frauenfelder in One magazine. “A half-century ago, the streets of Southern California were filled with flamboyant towers of consumerism — spires and obelisks and beacons — transmitting neon-fortified messages of optimism to families riding in cars with space-age tailfins. Life was good, and the marvels of modern science were making a world as new as tomorrow.”
FEED gave the official word today that they’re sutting down, at least for the foreseeable future. The same goes for Suck , although it looks like Plastic will be continuing for now. Both FEED and Suck have been online for six years, and have been excellent throughout. Hopefully they can pull out this funk and come back in one form or another in a few months.
I’m DSL-less for 10 days. I suppose compared to most other companies that’s pretty snappy service, but it’s still 10 days without DSL.
Feed has a great interview with Cory Doctorow today. The overlap between Doctorow’s day job at OpenCola and his night job writing fiction makes for a unique combination: It’s almost like William Gibson launching a company that sells neural plugs and stim-sims.
Yet another redesign. I think I’ll stick with this one for a while.
Ain’t It Cool News has some great clips and pictures from the new Coen Brothers film, The Man Who Was Not There. I’m excited.
CNET has video of Steve Jobs announcement of Apple’s new iPad.
I’ve been editing some old pictures and will definately think about getting a dedicated 35 mm photo scanner for my negatives.
Shift is back with a design that looks vaguely familiar . It looks good but those JavaScript scroll boxes are slow.
Jack! is now in deep development mode and, through the magic of blogs, you can follow the action as it happens .
Streaming video from the Reboot conference , featuring Justin Hall, Dave Winer, Evan Williams, Douglas Rushkoff and others. It’ll make ya think.
It’s been a while since I played around with customizing My Yahoo! so I don’t know how new this is, but you can now use themes in addition to plain colors.
‘We reinvented culture the way we wanted it – with great big shoes’ . David Bowie writes about glam in today’s Guardian.
There’s a great article by William Gibson in the The Observer’s Special Japan Issue .
