Tropical Zone Gardening: The coconut wireless - chat threat 2, 1 by lourspolaire

lourspolaire wrote:
Hello, everyone and welcome to our newcomer, Debijaynes.

Yes, this is a great group of nice people with both our feet firmly planted on the ground. We do not waste time re-inventing the wheel, settling the world's problems or shoveling clouds.

Ah shucks, guys... my photo restoration efforts are not so extraordinary. All that comes pre-packaged in the box with the PhotoShop disks. It is a slow process because it involves hundreds of corrections. One starts by rescuing the image itself. Then, tears and scratches are removed from the picture. Then, you move on to recreate those parts of the image that are missing and remove dust particles, etc.

I have stitched back together pictures that were torn into pieces. Those turned out quite well because they were newer than the images preserved on a sheet of tin (daguerreotypes). Those are so fragile, you shouldn't even breathe on them, or take them out in the daylight. The scanner's light source doesn't hurt them, though. I have always enjoyed old pictures and saving them from oblivion seems like the right thing to do.

Here is one of my proudest achievements: a picture of my great grandmother, quite artsy for the period, wouldn't you think?

Take care, all.
Pu'ole, a.k.a. Sylvain.