Your R System Images - June 2023

[Only RF]

Hi Only RF,

That does look fun! A terrific range of subjects/ scenarios and photographic challenges - which you certainly rose to!

P&K

Thanks.

 

[Bert-63]

Thanks Bob.

This came from a trunk full of family photos. I went through them last year looking for photos to scan and put together in a poster for my brother's 75th birthday. He was born in 1947 and I in 1945.

What did you use to clean up the photo? I volunteer for a local museum and scan and restore lots of old photos. Most much older than this one.

Tom

I use a variety of things. First I loaded it into Affinity Photo and used their Inpainting, Blemish, and Patch tools to clean up the artifacts. It was a quickie and I know I didn't get them all. When I was happy with cleaning I moved over to Topaz Photo AI for enlargement and AI Face Recovery and noise removal. I find that you have to be careful using these tools too aggressively because they WILL make the faces look like the Lost Indonesian Lizard People.

Finally I go back over to Affinity to clean up any artifacts created by the rest of the process. I collect old digital movie posters and use this same process (weird I know) so I know what a challenge bringing old things back to life can be. As always - and you well know - having a decent starting points helps.

With your experience I'm sure you could have done a better job than I did, but thanks for letting me do a little. It was fun..