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Restoration of a corrupted JPEG file
File contains JPEG data, so then it's always possible to glue on the header of a known good file that was shot with same device with settings matching as closely as possible (quality, resolution). If ...
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How can I remove white stripes from an old photo without losing detail?
By doing a quick edit using Fourier Transform as described in this Imagemagick tutorial I managed to considerable reduce the annoying effect when viewed at 100%.
A more thorough edit using this ...
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Can I use a restored 55-year-old fixed-lens film camera without working aperture blades?
Neither of your stated options is a good one.
Given the stated condition of the aperture blades, the best option would be to replace them with good ones from a (non-functioning for some other reason) ...
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What can I do to restore an old black and white photograph with many white spots when I scan the print?
Most of the problems are coming from the paper texture, or, rather, from the way the scanner's light source is reflected by the texture. You can minimize that by scanning the photo in several ...
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How can I correct/restore a photo with uneven fading due to a mat?
In the blouse area, I selected the area under the mat with the lasso tool with feather set to 20 for your posted image size and used levels (the center adjuster) to match the areas.
In the background ...
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How can I remove white stripes from an old photo without losing detail?
At a pixel level, you want to blur the lighter pixels horizontally, without blurring the picture as a whole too much. I took two times two similar steps in Adobe Photoshop to create the picture below.
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How can I flatten a photograph that was stored rolled a long time?
If you have a photo that's been stored tightly rolled up for a few decades, you run the risk of unrolling the photo with techniques describe above, which often happens with old photos that are dry and ...
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I can't find my edited Lightroom photos or catalog after Lightroom crashed. What are my options?
Lightroom is a non-destructive photo editor (see Are RAW files safe from changes?). It means that it never touches your original files (unless you ask it too). So regardless of Lightroom state (the ...
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How do I repair "partially" corrupted raw (cr2) files?
CR2 is based upon TIFF, containing three JPEG versions (including the raw data) and one TIFF preview. See http://lclevy.free.fr/cr2/#parsing for more information. You could rename the file to a TIFF ...
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How to restore as much detail as possible to a scanned image of an inkjet-printed page?
You have several problems:
The image isn't really continuous tone. It's made up of lots of tiny areas that are either dark or light.
The light parts aren't really all that light and the dark parts ...
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How do I color correct a scan of a transparency with false colors?
The problem here goes beyond a color shift. There just isn't any useful color information in left image
The original color film had cyan, magenta, and yellow dyes. It appears that the cyan and yellow ...
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How can I restore details of jewelry in old photo?
Unfortunately, you cannot "restore" the details. The details are lost because of the low resolution of the photo. They're not hidden, and contrary to what popular shows like CSI portray, ...
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After I clean the mold from a color negative with isopropyl alcohol, do I need to apply a chemical stabilizer?
Color negative film, during processing were dipped in a mild solution of formaldehyde. This did two things; a. hardened the emulsion and b. is a biocide.
The formaldehyde step was replaced by more ...
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Can I use a restored 55-year-old fixed-lens film camera without working aperture blades?
If you don't mind shooting wide open all the time, go ahead and remove them.
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How do I remove yellow discolouration from a scanned B&W photo in Photoshop?
If you select PhotoShop's 'Image -> Adjustments -> Black and White' menu you'll be able to get rid of the color information. You can also go to 'Image -> Mode -> Grayscale' and convert, ...
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Old Photo Restoration Stuck On Scan Lines
A shot at it with Gimp's wavelet denoise filter and a small contrast increase with Curves:
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How to save 4x5 images of artwork, slide images of artwork in 1 foot of water?
If possible, you'll want/need to immediately separate the film sheets or strips while still wet, and remove them from any archive sleeves, and store them immersed in room temperature, clean water as ...
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How to remove a water stain from printed photo?
The gelatin emulsion has deformed. Gelatin swells when wet and contracts as it dries. What you have is an unevenness in thickness. Your best approach will be to procure a gloss or matte photo spay ...
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How to remove a water stain from printed photo?
I would suggest that you take some other photographs printed on similar paper, and experiment. Sweat onto them, let it dry, then try different techniques.
A: Put a puddle of distilled water on a ...
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How to fix light leaks on black and white film in Photoshop?
It depends how bad. You can try to scan it a few times (normal, lighter, and darker) then mask out parts in photoshop. You can also control shadow and highlight detail in photoshop to improve the ...
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How to fix light leaks on black and white film in Photoshop?
Unsharp mask option will help to get some details back from the over exposed part ,auto tone ,auto color options may helpful to reduce the blown out 20-30%. Cloning is required if its small patchy ...
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