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Photo Repair Please

Lady Penelope

Lady Penelope

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Could someone improve this photo for me please? I don't know who is pictured but the reverse reads 'Baby Bennett, 19 Bridge Road, Gravelly Hill' which was my Gt Grandparents house.
 

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Lady Penelope said:
Could someone improve this photo for me please? I don't know who is pictured but the reverse reads 'Baby Bennett, 19 Bridge Road, Gravelly Hill' which was my Gt Grandparents house.
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Got rid of the worst scratches but there is not a lot of detail, regards, John.
 

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Thanks to everyone for the restorations. Smashing jobs gentlemen.

Yes, that's the Bridge Road now completely wiped out by Spaghetti Junction.
 
mikejee said:
On this c1955 map, Bridge road is in red, and no 19 is in blue.
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VERY nice – thank you very much. I was thinking 'can't see for looking', but the name isn't printed on the map version I was checking!
I've driven right over the plot a few times, I reckon, thanks to Spaghetti Junction.
I was hoping the road was a little further north and had been spared the bombs and bulldozers so that I could have a look at the property and maybe 3D model some of the features. Some other time, eh?
 
Brondrange/Jim – nice piece of work, by the way. What are you using for image processing?
 
Hi Qu.Be, I've posted these pics on the Salford Bridge thread but they show a little more of the road. They both show a little of Leamington Road (so that you can get your bearings) the colour one is from the 1960's just before the properties were demolished and the b/w is from 1930's. The PC shows the original buildings before Tyburn Road was cut on the right. You can just see Leamington Road on the left and further back is Slade Road.

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The lady/girl holding the baby looks particularly young in the last edit.

Also see (being nosy) that the Bennett's lived on Bridge Road from at least 1901 until 1965. Were they the only occupants of no 19 from construction to demolition?
 
oldMohawk said:
A bit late to the party but I'm running 'Windows 11 beta' in my laptop and wanted to test a 'freebie' photo editor with it and chose this photo which gave it a good test ... :)
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Which photo editor were you trying?

(I'm wondering about trying a Linux Windowsalike, Windowsfx 11, being an old UNIX/Linux hack, by the by – although this is getting WAY off thread).
QB
 
Qu.Be said:
Which photo editor were you trying?

(I'm wondering about trying a Linux Windowsalike, Windowsfx 11, being an old UNIX/Linux hack, by the by – although this is getting WAY off thread).
QB
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Hi, I used Gimp 2.10. If you search the forum for the word gimp you will see lots of posts from me as I learnt how to use it, but for serious restoration Photoshop is better and more user-friendly but costs !
If you search the forum for the word linux you will also see lots of posts from me and others about using Linux Mint !
oldmohawk
 
Richard Dye said:
oldMohawk, so far would you give Windows 11 a thumbs up? I am looking really hard at a new computer and putting 11 on it. Your feedback would be appreciated!
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Hi Richard, I suppose one description of Windows 11 is that it is Windows 10 with a 'shiny new wrapper'. Every app/program/file I used with Win 10 works with Win 11.

I would think that computers sold from October will either have Win 11 installed or Win 10 with free upgrade to Win 11 and by Christmas all retail computers will have Win 11.

Windows 11 this morning on my laptop ... it looks a bit like Windows 7 ...
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Desktop background with some shortcut icons
Taskbar at the bottom with apps etc
I guess any further discussion should move to a new thread ... ;)
 
oldMohawk said:
Hi, I used Gimp 2.10.
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Excellent! Good to meet you. I shall have a search right away.
I've been with Gimp since v2.6 but really got using it again from 2.10 onwards when bump-mapping and displacement went onto the main screen – that doesn't mean I know a great deal about image restoration though; I'm more into Gimp, Inkscape and Blender for the image, meme and book cover creation side.
Photoshop has some real slick timesavers, but I'm old-school and prefer Gimp's subscription model – I'd rather pay in supporting others when I can rather than stumping up cash I've barely got.
 
oldMohawk said:
Hi Richard, I suppose one description of Windows 11 is that it is Windows 10 with a 'shiny new wrapper'. Every app/program/file I used with Win 10 works with Win 11.

I would think that computers sold from October will either have Win 11 installed or Win 10 with free upgrade to Win 11 and by Christmas all retail computers will have Win 11.

Windows 11 this morning on my laptop ... it looks a bit like Windows 7 ...
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Desktop background with some shortcut icons
Taskbar at the bottom with apps etc
I guess any further discussion should move to a new thread ... ;)
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Thank you, good information oldMohawk! I think I will look for computers with 11 pre installed and see if there is any pricing difference from the retailer. I having been running on 10 since it came out.
 
I appreciate that this topic has been used a lot recently and I do not want to abuse the kindness of those kind people who help.
This photo is my 2x grt grandfather, it is in very poor condition under broken glass in a locket. Is anyone able to help to improve the picture?
Thank you. Davenport
 

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Davenport said:
I appreciate that this topic has been used a lot recently and I do not want to abuse the kindness of those kind people who help.
This photo is my 2x grt grandfather, it is in very poor condition under broken glass in a locket. Is anyone able to help to improve the picture?
Thank you. Davenport
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Hi Davenport, I've had a go but not very satisfactory. If it's restoration is important to you then it needs an expert ... :)
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oldMohawk said:
Hi Davenport, I've had a go but not very satisfactory. If it's restoration is important to you then it needs an expert ... :)
View attachment 161931 Hi oldMohawk, THANK YOU so much for your enhancement of my photograph.I didn’t really expect that you could improve especially as the original is only 2cm x 1.5 cm and the photo of the locket was the best I could do ! Cheers.
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oldMohawk said:
Hi Davenport, I've had a go but not very satisfactory. If it's restoration is important to you then it needs an expert ... :)
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I don't think we could ask for much more unless the glass can come off without damage*thumbs up*
 
My method was
1) Rotate the whole image right 13°
2) Mirror the lower left part of his face to right
3) Did not touch his eyes because it seems to lose character.
There are 'libraries' of eyes which can be copied and inserted but they are not pixels from original.
4) Fill in the area of his chin and decide whether he had a beard ... or not ...
5) I decided that he did have a beard so worked on that.
6) Mirrored parts of his right coat to left.
7) Cloned from a grey area to produce a background.
8) Worked on his hair.
9) I then noticed in my edit that his face was looking thinner than original so had to cage transform it wider ... :rolleyes:
10) Rotated whole image left 13°

I can now see many things I could have done better ... ;)
 
Davenport said:
I appreciate that this topic has been used a lot recently and I do not want to abuse the kindness of those kind people who help.
This photo is my 2x grt grandfather, it is in very poor condition under broken glass in a locket. Is anyone able to help to improve the picture?
Thank you. Davenport
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Thought I'd give it a try (it's raining hard and I was due to be outside). I stopped when I ran out of proof as to what I was doing was nearly right, although I reckoned there was the look of Adam Ant in the original – maybe I could sync *him* in...

QB
 
oldMohawk said:
My method was
1) Rotate the whole image right 13°
2) Mirror the lower left part of his face to right
3) Did not touch his eyes because it seems to lose character.
There are 'libraries' of eyes which can be copied and inserted but they are not pixels from original.
4) Fill in the area of his chin and decide whether he had a beard ... or not ...
5) I decided that he did have a beard so worked on that.
6) Mirrored parts of his right coat to left.
7) Cloned from a grey area to produce a background.
8) Worked on his hair.
9) I then noticed in my edit that his face was looking thinner than original so had to cage transform it wider ... :rolleyes:
10) Rotated whole image left 13°

I can now see many things I could have done better ... ;)
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You are a ⭐️
 
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