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can anyone help make this photo clearer please?
Here’s something I need help with, if anyone fancies a go.
I am trying to make this picture clearer.
(ancestral research purposes)
If anyone can make it brighter/clearer, I would be eternally grateful.
Thanks!
Love….Jill
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Brightening it is easy enough, but it is pretty blurry.
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Thanks Andy.
I have contacted the relative who sent me this scan.
Hopefully she can send me a better one.
The chap on the right is most likely my great-great grandfather.
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It looks like they have photographed the photograph. An actual scan would be better with the picture taken out of the frame.
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oh that’s a fab piece to have Jill. I hope you have success with it! 😀
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I asked her, but she is afraid to photograph the tintype again?
I really wish she would, because I could probably print out copies for all the interested relatives.
Look at this one she sent, it’s a scan of a tinytpe of my great-great-great grandfather and his second wife. He was a tailor and fathered 17 children.
(including the soldiers)
I think he looks quite charming.
This picture is about the same age as the tintype of the brothers, the 1860s.
Love….Jill
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oh how fantastic to have stuff like that! 😀
my family were Irish potato pickers ……… they couldn’t afford photographs!!!!! 😳 :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
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I am with Andy Jill, think its a photo of the picture in frame… if so we really are limited to what you can do or you begin to loss detail.
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Hi Jill
if you scan the two photos at Hi Res and send them
i will see what i can doCheers
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OK, talked her into taking a new pic.
These are from the PA side of my family, who lived here since about 1780.
(mom’s side)
My dad’s side were the Irish potato farmers who never had money for portraits! They came over a century later. There were 17 kids in his family too!
Thanks folks.
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Better if you scanned them at hi Res ????
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Had a go at cleaning up your scan Jill but I think i’ve gone to far with the levels and sharpening. 😳
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Thats a good job John
Cheers
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quote Marcella:my family were Irish potato pickers ……… they couldn’t afford photographs!!!!! 😳 :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:Tatty hoker! 😀 😀 Any salt and vinegar? 😀
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thats brilliant John, what were you using? Photopaint?
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Had a quick dabble
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Hi Harry,
Used the cloning tool in photoshop to get rid of any blemishes, adjusted the levels – maybe a little too much. Changed the actual colouring to make it a little less white, after the levels, with selective colouring then guassian blur with unsharp mask to sharpen it.How can you tell I couldn’t sleep last night :lol1:
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Lovely jubbly.
Looks like they bathed for Sundy-go-to-meetin’.
I had this excellent free adobe photo program, problem is it won’t work with my new computer.
I can use it on my ancient computer but there’s no CD burner or Internet on it, therefore too hard to transfer files.
(pix get too big for a floppy, altho I had my new machine built with a floppy drive)
I will add more pix if I get any.
As for me, even seeing the blurry soldier tintype was something I’ve waited on for over 30 years!
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Had a quick dabble at this early this morning !!!!!
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Wanted to leave the picture as natural as possible !!!!
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This is it lightened just a fraction !!!!!
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Use the Dodge/Burn tools to lighten darken facial features and folds in clothes etc, also use curves, I will have a go if I get the time.
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Thanks folks.
I am still waiting for a new one of the soldiers.
I might have one of my own to upload if I get time.
It’s of the one soldier later in life.
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Steve tried the dodge tool doesn’t look right when i lighten the faces ????
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The burn tool is what you should use to darken them, not lighten them.
and only in eye/shadow areas.
Its just to accentuate features not visible in the photo.
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