Freudian slip? That should have been: Let us know how *you* get along. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 7/20/2011 3:44 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> There should be no concern about copyright violation in an image that's
> about 130 years old and whose owners have been out of business for 65-70
> years. Furthermore, if there was actual concern about copyright it
> would have been sufficient to simply say so. Copyright was never mentioned.
>
> They do ask you to rate your skill level but I was allowed to select any
> of perhaps a dozen or so images. I don't completely understand the
> process yet but it appears that groups of images (maybe 10-20) are
> assigned to a coordinator who points you to a set of images to choose
> from. The coordinator keeps track of you and the image. Some of these
> seem to be related to promise dates. The one I was working on (I think)
> was of some special interest since it was the last of a set of images
> being restored for a particular family. Completion had apparently been
> promised by some particular date.
>
> I thought the particular image I chose was within my skill level but
> there were some that clearly were not or, if they were, I was not
> willing to say I'd do it in a week. Some of the restorers are clearly
> very expert. Restoring images where there doesn't seem to be any way to
> fill the missing areas. For example, in this restoration
> <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/restoration.php> I was able to restore the
> heavily damaged eye and lashes by using parts of the reversed opposite
> eye. But I at least had something to work with. I know that some
> images have been restored by searching the web for other similar
> material to get enough bits to copy and re-size to fill in the missing bits.
>
> Good luck. Lets us know how to get along.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 7/20/2011 12:25 PM, Paul Laughlin wrote:
>> Thanks, Chuck. I signed up. As I am somewhat disabled, I really need
>> something to work on that will keep me occupied. Do they give you some
>> to select from, or do they just assign one based on level selected?
>> About "fixing" the photo, I imagine that they are concerned with the
>> possibility of copyright violation. Probably to an extreme. LOL
>> Paul in Portland OR
>>
>> On 7/20/2011 5:01 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>> No shortage of images to work on here.
>>> <http://www.operationphotorescue.org/>
>>
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