Any good photoshop guys here?

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Firefyter-emt

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I have a photo I want to frame and print for my shop. The photo is from the late 1800 and has a lot of "dirt" and stuff on the print. I would like to clean up the background so it would look good. I don't mind if the print being removed and added back on in a slightly different font, as long as it is pretty close.

Here is the image:
www.yankeetoys.org/lee/reed-lathe.jpg

I am not in a hurry, but let me know if it can be done. This is the exact lathe I brought home today.
 
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Sure, simple enough job but as Jason says he (or I) would need a higher resolution than 160K for print as I imagine you would be wanting a letter or A4 size print, right?
 
LOL, if you don't want it any bigger than a postage stamp, then 10 mins in good old paintbrush gave me this.
 

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Firefyter-emt said:
www.yankeetoys.org/lee/reed-lathe.jpg

I am not in a hurry, but let me know if it can be done. This is the exact lathe I brought home today.
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Lee; It is certainly possible, and I saw the cleaned up photo. Very Nice, but if you provide a larger scan, it should be at 600 DPI to get a reasonable photo size, and make sure to save the photo as a TIFF file. This file will be MUCH LARGER. JPG files are notorious for introducing "artifacts". These are the halos seen around the text and objects.

JPG files are lossy. ie if you edit and save the file each time you resave the file, you loose detail.
 
Yep.. need a bigger file. The text is the toughest part..

this would have been a typical project on my old website
I used to get a lot of these types of restorations to do.
(the photos, not the lathes)
But I let the name lapse, and someone in England had it last
I knew..
 

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Thanks guys... BTW, while the test would be nice to have in the final photo, it could be dropped. Better yet, if it could be re-printed in a new font that would be fine by me.

I do not have a better scan, that photo was off the internet and seemed large enough that maybe it could be cleaned and printed out. Thanks for all the help and trying, I just figured it would be really cool in the shop on the wall behind the lathe when it's done.
 
I like that picture... trying it out for an avatar.... if I can do it.
 
NewLondon88 said:
Yep.. need a bigger file. The text is the toughest part..

this would have been a typical project on my old website
I used to get a lot of these types of restorations to do.
(the photos, not the lathes)
But I let the name lapse, and someone in England had it last
I knew..
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Charlie; I do such restorations for my Family Genealogy. I started when an uncle asked me to "restore" an old photo of the ship he was stationed on during World War II. It had HOLES IN IT!!!

The clone brush and pen got quite a workout, but I was able to do a pretty good job.
 
As others have demonstrated, it can be done. PS requires practice to learn.
However, I kinda like the original the way it is. Old is old and the stains look like part of the antique feeling of the image. I would print on a matte surface and not change a thing.
 
randyrls said:
Charlie; I do such restorations for my Family Genealogy. I started when an uncle asked me to "restore" an old photo of the ship he was stationed on during World War II. It had HOLES IN IT!!!
The clone brush and pen got quite a workout, but I was able to do a pretty good job.
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LOL .. yeah.. the clone is your friend if you know the tricks. I used to have
a small business called Techlab Photo Rescue (photo-rescue.com) but I let
it lapse and someone scooped the name. That's got to be about 15 years ago
or more .. put it this way, Photoshop came on 2 floppy discs. (3 discs if you
count the Adobe Type Manager) I had to upgrade my 386 so I could use
more than 4 meg of RAM .. :eek:
 
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