Photo repair

[red750]

I occasionally like to play around editing old photos. I don't have Photoshop, Lightroom or any of those expenive editing programs, I use a simple program called PhotoScape, which is free for non-commercial users, and is downloaded from the internet.

 

Today, my wife received a USB drive with nearly 500 old family photos, scanned copies of prints. Some were in pretty poor condition. Here are before and after images of two photos I played around wih this afternoon.

 

 

[old man emu]

Did it take much to learn how to use it, or have you got prior experience?

[red750]

No prior experience, self taught by trial and error. There are a couple of small video clips which come up on the home screen to get you started, but it's pretty much suck it and see. If you want to try it, I'm happy to answer questions.

[old man emu]

I'll download it, but my plate runneth over with projects at the moment. I'll be happy when this COVID lockdown is over and I can leave the house. Staying home is just letting me find more and more projects to do. Today I picked up a bar-b-que someone put out on the footpath. I hope to be able to replace the gas manifold in my old bar-b-que. If that fails, at least I've got a good frame for a trolley.

[facthunter]

Always good for red back spider home. Nev

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

Always good for red back spider home. Nev

Until the funnel-webs come knocking at their door.

[facthunter]

I keep forgetting you are in Sydney. They are worse in the northern suburbs and stay alive in swimming pool filters and get into beds that aren't used much. Nev

[red750]

Is this a record - four posts to derail a thread?

[old man emu]

27 minutes ago, red750 said:

Is this a record - four posts to derail a thread?

 

 

[Dax]

19 hours ago, red750 said:

Today, my wife received a USB drive with nearly 500 old family photos, scanned copies of prints. Some were in pretty poor condition. Here are before and after images of two photos I played around wih this afternoon.

That's a pretty good job you've done there, in linux there are any number of photo shop stuff, I use GIMP which is simply amazing, but is a steep learning curve. There are lots of simple easy to use photo manipulation software, free and some are extremely sophisticated.

[facthunter]

FOUR posts hold up a lot of things. It was like that when I got here Boss. Nev

[Yenn]

I use Afinity Photo. Not a freebie, but it is good and does most of what photoshop used to do when I last used it. I used to get these photos back in the days before digital and re photograph, then fix them up in the darkroom.

[onetrack]

I think I've mentioned this before, but I still use a Photo-editing and Imaging programme that came with my very first computer setup - Windows 98 in Oct 1998.

That programme is ULead iPhoto Express, and it is a great little programme that was put together by Canon - but which is now 100% obsolete, as Canon sold ULead iPhoto Express to Corel, about 2007, who promptly modified it to iPhoto Express Plus 4, then binned it, after they extracted a lot of its useful features, and tried to integrate them into Corel Draw. But Corel Draw is not a patch on iPhoto Express.

 

And it appears I'm not the only one who thinks it truly was/still is, the best imaging programme around.

 

https://www.mouthshut.com/software/Ulead-iPhoto-Plus-4-reviews-925013838