Photo Retouching - - To All Retouchers - Page 2

palomino · #16 02-07-2006, 01:28 AM

agreed-- they seem sincere to me. I also got 2 photos today of the "difficult" variety...both required major facial reconstruction (yikes!) one missing a nose altogether and one missing part of the face and arm, and both horribly water damaged/moldy. I feel for these people, I think I will get put one the database aslo and do a few more as time permits. Cheers to everyone slaving over their keyboards to help out!

-Kate

megl · #17 02-07-2006, 05:26 AM

Yeah - I got two pictures in as well, and when they say hard ... they mean it ;-)

Gonna take a while ... but I wanna back up the good initiative!

/megl

from austin · #18 02-07-2006, 09:05 AM

i teach photoshop at a college here in austin, texas and a couple of my students need a project. this is a perfect win win situation. the only problem is we need the project soon. i would walk them through the whole retouch operation and make sure the recipient is given a quality job. please let me know asap. i have also emailed though the link of one of your thoughtful responders.
good thoughts,
carolyn

www.carolyncoffey.com

Cameraken · #19 02-07-2006, 09:33 AM

No More Photographs

I applied to help a little late.
They have no more photos to restore at the moment.

If anyone has too many photos or feel they won’t have time to complete what they have been sent then I will help.

Ken.

Flora · #20 02-07-2006, 09:55 AM

Hi!

Carolyn,

even if you are just 'passing by' ... Welcome to RP!

Ken,

I've sent in the last 2 of my 5 pictures about an hour ago .... Where were you this morning???

I would have loved and taken your offer!!!

Cameraken · #21 02-07-2006, 10:41 AM

Hi Flora.

Well if you thought they were “real killers” then maybe they would have been beyond me.

They have added me to their database. So maybe they will send some pictures as more come in. But it looks like they have cleared the backlog.

Ken.

creeduk · #22 02-08-2006, 06:33 PM

I am just so glad I thought to post here and really glad you all read it. I thought after I posted maybe I should have made the title better so people would look in but you did anyway. My retouching is OK, not great and I refer anyone who even considers it to come here to see what can be done and often how to do it.

creeduk.

Cameraken · #23 02-10-2006, 02:56 PM

Wow. I had a good response to my offer of help. I have now finished all the pictures I was sent and I have either emailed them back to you or sent them directly to Becky at OPR if that was what you requested.

Becky says thanks.

Ken

Cameraken · #24 05-03-2006, 08:10 PM

I just received this email. It looks like a lot more volunteers are required. Please read the first post in this thread if you would like to help.

Quote:

All,

There's no need to respond to this email, I just want to update you
all about where we're at in the distribution process.

I had hoped to begin distribution today (Wed 5/03), but to say that
we have been swamped is an understatement. During the whole week that
we intially spent in Pass Christian, MS, we gathered 500 photos from
around 50 or so families.

On Monday here in Metairie, we collected that many in a single day.
Yesterday, we collected from 43 families.

Today, we have collected from (best guess) 70 families. We still have
nearly an hour to go and people are still coming in. This is by no
means an accurate count, but my gut feeling has me thinking that
we've already collected around 1,000 photos since Monday. We still
have two days to go.

Anyway, that's the quick update. Thanks to all who responded in
readiness. We'll start distributing soon, but with the way things are
going we may have to wait until we close up shop here at the end of
the week.

In the meantime, I'll keep you all posted.

Dave Ellis
Operation Photo Rescue
OPRvolunteer@gmail.com

Jon Foster · #25 05-07-2006, 02:55 AM

I just sent them an e-mail too. I don't know how much time I can devote to it but I might as well give it a try and see if I can help them out.

Jon.

woofw · #26 05-27-2006, 06:31 PM

I've emailed them and recieved one photo. One thought> maybe we can post a before and after of what we've done, go thru the processing so as we can learn from each other or seek advice
. I still got the hard part to fix b4 sending it back

RokcetScientist · #27 05-27-2006, 07:30 PM

Thanks for posting this thread, creeduk.

Guys!
If the restored photos are too big for eMail, try yousendit.com/ . You can send files up to 100MB for FREE!

To avoid having to send each photo separately, you can zip 'm all together* to create one big file (max 100MB). If you need security you can password protect your zip file (set the prefs).

* zipping JPG's together into an archive does not compress them any further (JPG is a compressed state already), but it does serve to group and keep 'm together.