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Post by mariehass on Jul 22, 2013 8:32:18 GMT
I was thinking of Steaphaney and the great efforts to post processing formulas. I really did shoot film. These pictures make me melancoly. They are of my golden retriever, Ky Tobb. I dug these out of the film archives, and they were so full of real life dust and scratches that I decided to process these shots as oil paintings. I took these shots with my Canon AE-1, early 1980's. They are 2 of only a few I have.  Golden days by mariehass, on Flickr  Golden days 2 by mariehass, on Flickr 'Rie |
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Post by Steaphany on Jul 22, 2013 12:05:15 GMT
Nicely done. if you still have these negatives, I suggest that you look into LaserSoft Imaging. Their soft combined with an Infrared channel of the scanner will allow software identification and automatic removal of surface dust and scratches. |
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Post by mariehass on Jul 26, 2013 9:49:04 GMT
Sorry I took so long to get back to you. Work has left me deluged.
No negatives. When I was younger, I thought things would last forever. All I have is a shopping bag full of already developed pictures.
Marie
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Post by Stevewebb on Jul 28, 2013 9:03:55 GMT
The oil painting effect has worked really well Rie.
I am just scanning some old family prints and this might rescue some of the really bad ones. Alas most have no negatives either but we have loads from the 1940's that are in reasonable condition.
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Post by mariehass on Jul 28, 2013 11:26:16 GMT
Thanks, Steve.
I used Nik filters, then Alien Skin to create the oil paint effect.
I love old pictures and wish you well on your project. You will have to post some of them for us!
'Rie
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Post by Steaphany on Jul 28, 2013 13:00:33 GMT
With all the tears, work, and regret over lost negatives, at least you can scan what you have.
Just imagine if you wanted to access an old disk drive that sat on a shelf since the 1980's or 1990's full of photos. If you could find a contemporary computer that could interface with the drive, would the data be intact enough to recover the images ? Even CD's have a limited shelf life.
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Post by jeeperman on Jul 28, 2013 15:56:23 GMT
These are great Marie. I like the first best and think it has the kind of warmth that makes it feel like a great memory but one I could hang on the wall.
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Post by janis on Jul 28, 2013 16:31:44 GMT
Lovely looking dog, Marie, and I think you've done a great job of rescuing those old photos. I am going to have to check out this Alien Skin.
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Post by mariehass on Jul 28, 2013 16:39:34 GMT
Thanks, Jeeperman.
Steaphany, um...I doubt that they could hold much more than one or two pictures? (smiling to self, thinking silly). I remember just learning how to use computers in 1984 - 85. It was basically just a word processing tool , I remember ascii, dot matrix printing and DOS. In 1987, I was working with very basic Word and Word Perfect documents. I created newsletters for a software company and the printer was the one who set the pictures. Hard drives were basically the OS and related software. All documents were kept on disk. PC backups were not yet tapes, but were numbered disks instead.
Your "what if" did take me down memory lane, though. It is amazing how quickly things become obsolete.
I will have to investigate other storage options as well.
'Rie
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Post by mariehass on Jul 28, 2013 16:42:25 GMT
Hi, Jan!!!! You jumped in while I was composing myself.
I like Alien Skin. It gives me a lot of pleasure to produce "paintings" this way.
'Rie
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Post by Steaphany on Jul 28, 2013 18:36:27 GMT
...I remember just learning how to use computers in 1984 - 85. I started with multi-user time share computer's back in the 1970's where I was writing aerodynamic and population simulations. Later, when PC's had their dawn that you experienced, I purchased a $12K Sun Microsystems UNIX work station and considered it a steal. Even now my access to f-stop is through a mix of a PC running Windows XP with a rack of Sun Solaris servers maintaining most of the computing environment. Your "what if" did take me down memory lane, though. It is amazing how quickly things become obsolete. I will have to investigate other storage options as well. 'Rie I suggest that you check out M-Disc, it's a technology where data is written to a stone like material that the manufacturer claims can achieve a 1,000 year media life. |
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Post by mariehass on Jul 28, 2013 20:59:35 GMT
Ha!!! I wrote Cobol and JCL programs in the early 1980's!!!! I worked on a  ?IBM???3100????Mainframe and interfaced with a PC with a daisywheel printer. Gives new meaning to the words "Written in Stone" LOLOLOLOL |
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Post by Steaphany on Jul 28, 2013 21:43:56 GMT
Ha!!! I wrote Cobol and JCL programs in the early 1980's!!!! I worked on a ?IBM???3100????Mainframe and interfaced with a PC with a daisywheel printer. The first computer I ever used, mid 1970's, was a Honeywell 1640 Timeshare accessed through an ASR-33 coding in both BASIC and FORTRAN.  We're both computer techi gals ! ;D When Apple II and Microsoft DOS PC's first appeared, I thought they were a joke. |
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Post by kenc on Aug 2, 2013 15:54:41 GMT
Really nicely done images.
Does anyone know how to do this in PS itself? I have tried different filters and come up with some looks I kind of like (film grain + dry brush, both at fairly low levels is pretty nice), but nothing that looks like this.
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