OK Y'all (Virginian accent)...
I am assuming a goodly number of you have lived some serious hours in
darkrooms in your lifetimes and can appreciate what I'm about to tackle..
I have a 1915 fantastic portrait of my grandfather during his 'courting' days
in a doozy of a high stiff collar...at one time was a really gorgeous dude.
He didn't like his pictures and was very destructive toward them....once,
when opening a dresser drawer that this photo was hung in, he jerked it and
ripped it straight down the middle of the nose..into 2 pieces!
This picture was developed on a very thick, stiff cardboard with pressed,
raised borders. I've been playing with it, and can piece it together fairly
well from the back, but a lot of the little peaks of the paper on the front
side that was town lay back and won't stay flat so that i can lay it down on
the scanner surface...therefore the width of the missing center space will be
pretty great.
Any words of wisdom?? I have PhotoDeluxe 2.0 as well as Adobe Photo Shop 4.0
so I guess I'll be digitally burning in and replacing pixels?/ Am i on the
right track?? i have loads of these great old family shots playing tennis in
straw bowlers, at the beach in the swimsuits of the 20's etc that I want to
fix...is this an arduous process?? You won't believe what i was quoted twenty
years ago to fix the ripped photo! About two months salary at that time!! :=)
Susan
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