Some important Questions..

[nicks]

Hi all,

I am Nick, I am a professional freelance photo restorer. I have a good experience in this area. I just started my own site, right now its on geocities.com but soon I would like to shift with some proper business domain.

I want to know that Can I use the photos in chellenges section of the forum after restoring them myself?

My site http://www.geocities.com/kandy_gr8/ lacking sample of difficult restoration, as I am freelancer, Generally I do work for others not for direct customers... so I don't have any permission of the owner of the restored photo to use their photos in my site...

Also whether its allowed or not, please let me know from where I can get royalty free damaged photos which I can restore and put back on my site as a sample...

Also look at my work at http://www.geocities.com/kandy_gr8/d...storation.html and give your opinions...

Thanks

- Nick

[Ken Rogers]

I recommend you visit http://www.freedomain.co.nr/. Leave your website where it is right now. For free, they let you choose a domain name, and this will redirect visitors to your site. It works very well. No ads, pop ups or anything hidden.

There are only two catches. You must put a tiny link on your home page (looks smart, very small) and you must accept the suffix "co.nr". So your domain name could be www.nick.co.nr for example.

Ken

[Jaime]

Hi Nick,

I think you will found interesting this thread about where to get bad photos:

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/non-retouchpro-resources/10598-where-get-bad-photos.html

[nicks]

Hi Ken Rogers, Thanks for the site providing free domain... Actually once I amd going to buy a professional business domain soon.. Once I gether some more difficult sample to use..

Thanks Jaime, I looked at the thread you have mentioned.. its good but still its not clearly mentioned that I can use the images which are available in this forum as a part of challenges.. Also the sites mentioned in this threads do not have real damaged images.. .. I can use them for example of retouching.. but for restoration I want some real old and damaged snaps.. like doug is putting in this forum.. To collect more samples.. I have even put an offer on my site http://www.geocities.com/kandy_gr8/ like "PAY WHATEVER YOU WANT" for any kind of restoration and just allowed me to use them as a sample on my site... Do you think I should post it in advertisement category of this forum?

Generally sites has copy right.. for the images.. I tryed google images for that but still not getting good success..

Please let me know if any other way you can show me..

Thank you

- Nick

[Doug Nelson]

Check the FAQ (link above under RetouchPRO) for your questions about using Challenges.

[nicks]

Hi Doug,

Thank you very much for the reply.. I checked it and I will do the same.. will ask to owner of the pic to use the snap or not ..

Also I would like to tell you that .. this forum is wonderful and you are doing superb work.

Thank you

- Nick.

[fishgal]

If you like to restore old historical photos there are some government sites that offer them i believe in public domain like:

http://libwww.library.phila.gov/hip/

You could google search some others to restore,