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Doug Colwell Senior Member Registered: October 2003 Location: Alberta Posts: 157 users gallery	Cloned the spots. Burnt and dodged some faces. Straightened, cropped, desat, autoleveled. Applied neat image to cart and three and a half kids. Re-submitted with less neat and more clone but the loss of detail (compared to Gary and Marc's pics) seems to be the result of neglecting to convert to grayscale - something that might not usually be noticeable until working on a photo with pixels the size of bricks. Back to the drawing board. Re re-submitted with a merger of my restore with a grayscaled and leveled version of original to recover lost detail.
	· Date: 7/5/2004 · Views: 4063 · Filesize: 151.4kb · Dimensions: 559 x 400 ·
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Cvandever

Junior Member

Registered: May 2003
Location: Crossville, TN
Posts: 3

7/5/2004 10:37am

like.. very good work.

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Gary Richardson

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Registered: March 2004
Location: Yorkshire, England
Posts: 2,717

7/5/2004 5:56pm

Nice overall job, although not up to your usual very high standards. I feel you've lost detail on the children's faces that is there in the original. Possibly a little too much use of Neat Image.

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Doug Colwell
Senior Member

Registered: October 2003
Location: Alberta
Posts: 157

7/5/2004 10:59pm

Thank you Cvandever and Gary. And yes Gary - guilty on all counts. This popped up just before bedtime and it's a slap-dash, speed record (for me) restoration. Looking at the times reported on alot of these restores, I get the impression that I'm the slowest restorer on the board.

Gary Richardson

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Registered: March 2004
Location: Yorkshire, England
Posts: 2,717

7/6/2004 1:37am

Sorry Doug, it's just that I'm used to only seeing work of the highest quality from you, so this one was a bit of a shock. As for being slow, I don't see that as a handicap at all, unless you have a specific deadline to meet. Usually slow means you've taken care to see to all the small details that make such a difference to the finished image.

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Marc

Junior Member

Registered: January 2004
Location: Leverkusen, Germany
Posts: 13

7/6/2004 12:51pm

Nice work, me thinks and a very good result in removing the grain.

As on Garys picture, the grass and the legs of the goat are somewhat blurry,
but I like the resulting image.

Doug Colwell
Senior Member

Registered: October 2003
Location: Alberta
Posts: 157

7/7/2004 12:24am

Thank you Marc. Agree about the blur. I may give this one another go on the week-end.

steve glomski

Junior Member

Registered: June 2004
Location: Chester UK

7/12/2004 6:02pm

Hi Doug,sadly,I agree with Gary,please remember I'm learning from you mate !

Doug Colwell
Senior Member

Registered: October 2003
Location: Alberta
Posts: 157

7/13/2004 12:12am

Steve, having re-submitted this pic twice in an attempt to address Gary and Marc's comments I feel I have come up against a brick wall on this one - so I'm turning this goat out to pasture.

steve glomski

Junior Member

Registered: June 2004
Location: Chester UK

7/13/2004 6:08am

Doug,misunderstanding,that was comment to your first attempt,sorry I didn't write above.Yor're still my teacher,I really like your persistence and doggednes.Take care.

Phillip Whitt
Junior Member

Registered: February 2003
Location: Columbus,GA
Posts: 2

7/13/2004 10:23pm

The picture I see here looks great-nice work.

Doug Colwell
Senior Member

Registered: October 2003
Location: Alberta
Posts: 157

7/14/2004 12:01am

Thanks Steve and Phil.

Punch
Member

Registered: June 2004
Posts: 46

7/31/2004 4:46pm

Rather confusing thread 'til I realized it had been resubmitted. Excellent job to my untrained eye. These challenges are helping to train it though.

Kent

Doug Colwell
Senior Member

Registered: October 2003
Location: Alberta
Posts: 157

8/1/2004 1:59am

Thanks Kent - this was my 'a word is worth a thousand pictures' challenge.

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