help

thanks theblueraja
thats improved it a bit,you can see what i mean about it fading,especially under his bandelero.
damien what i meant was maybe make the backgound white instead of yellow.make the picture more like it originally was.
still its not bad for a picture that is 80 years old.

thanks for the reply zoombini
its been smoking park drive fags for 70 years perhaps thats why its gone yellow.lol

[TheBlueRaja]

Hmmm.
Another stab at this methinks....

Any Better?



Any more than this just starts to loose detail elsewhere, (look at the emblum on the hat). Still it has more "white" round the background.

Still - its no bad.

[SMHarman]

The image was probably sepia printed in the first place

http://www.ephotozine.com/techniques....cfm?recid=105

A sepia toned print not only gives a pleasant tonal range, it also has a longer archival lifetime than an untreated print, because silver sulphide is more stable than pure silver.

Your scanned image is 333*458 pixels. Thats not very big. Have you shrunk it to get it to upload to Cable Forum? What size is the original photograph?

Images on screen look far bigger than they do when printed at high quality. This image is about 1in bu 1.5in printed.

thanks damien,best one yet

[TheBlueRaja]

Originally Posted by andy 1

damien what i meant was maybe make the backgound white instead of yellow.make the picture more like it originally was.

Gives up.

no it was definately not sepia.yes i have shrunk it to be able to upload it.the original picture is 12 by 16 inches.
wow theblueraja thats more like i remember it when i was a boy
thanks guys and incognitas.

[TheBlueRaja]

AAAAiiee!

[zoombini]

See, you need an expert to do the job.

I think the original colouring looks better than white background, after all who has thier picture taken against a white wall?

sorry theblueraja damiens picture came up before yours did see above message.
please i don't mean to offend any body

you always get one don't you zoombini

[TheBlueRaja]

Wonders how someone will react to having their grandpa "vandalised"...

[TheBlueRaja]

Originally Posted by andy 1

sorry theblueraja damiens picture came up before yours did see above message.
please i don't mean to offend any body

No probs i wasnt offended, i just wasnt sure what you were looking for (or even if you were) after i whitened the background like you asked.

[zoombini]

Originally Posted by theblueraja

Wonders how someone will react to having their grandpa "vandalised"...

Point taken, apologies Andy.