Image Repair and Restoration

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About Image Repair and Restoration

A collection of images that have been restored, or people would like restored. An emphasis on the tools and techniques used so that we, as restoration workers, can learn from one another.

The emphasis here is on restoration; trying to get images that are damaged back to the original state. We're not interested in colorizing images, though we are interested in recovering color from images that have faded or otherwise have lost color fidelity.

Recommended Tools:

✸✸✸✸✸– Photoshop CS3 Price: $649.00 — Performance (1-10): 10 [Win98, XP, Mac via Parallels, Mac version planned]

✸✸✸✸✸ WinImages Price: $ 29.95 -- Performance (1-10): 10 [Win98, XP, Mac via Parallels, note1 requires two or more physical button mouse, note2, group admin "fyngyrz" is one of the program's authors]

✸✸✸— Gimp Price: $ 0.00 — Performance (1-10): 8 [Linux, Windows 98, XP, Mac version here.]

✸✸✸— Paint Shop Pro Price: $ 79.95 — Performance (1-10): 8 [Win98, XP, Mac via Parallels]

✸✸—– www.getpaint.net/ Price: $ 0.00 — Performance (1-10): 6 [Windows 98, XP, Mac via Parallels Note: Requires Microsoft .net package download and install, which in turn requires Microsoft installer download and install... at that point, we gave up. But having used on it on other machines, it *can* be installed.]

(If you know of another strong image editing tool you think the group should be notified of that is not in the above list, please notify a group admin. If we can test it and find it to be highly capable, we'll add it to the above list.)

Remember: If you ask for restoration of an image, by doing so, you are giving permission for others to copy that image and modify it, and to re-post it in their own accounts. There is no other way to return modified images back to anyone requesting help, for one thing, and for another, the unmodified image needs to be where the person doing the image restoration can unconditionally access it.