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I have been my extended family's genealogist for about 20 years. Besides documenting ancestors (back through all male and female lines) I mostly have been collecting stories and when available images to scan (and eventually restore). The work I am sharing is from a cabinet card made in ~1892. I did many scans about 18 years ago, and have been docmenting and identifying the individuals. I recently discovered the identities of a mom and her three children (all separate images) as one of my Great Grand Aunts Lucy Anne (Wheeler) Reese (which I am sharing) and her three children (which are work in progress). A lot of detective work including the genealogy of the photographer to help identify the identities by confirming time the image was taken.
I am just starting to do restoration works on a treasure trove of scanned images and open for any and all feedback. I have a lot to learn (especially in colorization).
The first image is the original cabinet card. Relatively good shape given the age:
Hard to know how much to improve the image so just used my judgement.
Here is the final version. I wanted the borders to be more visible for the viewer and cleaned up yet not perfectly for a sense that it is still an old image:
I also did a portrait zoomed in version with the last image colorized. I leveraged the Neural Filter for Colization first and then did some hand work. Adds an intersting dimension yet not sure how much I like it compared to the non-colorized version. I need more practice on picking facial colors espeicially lips. Just a newbie on this front. Here is the starting image"
Restored view:
And colorized version:
Thanks in advance for any comments, feedback, and suggestions for where to learn more.
John Wheeler
FYI- Lucy was around 38 years old when this picture was taken in Ravenna Ohio
I am just starting to do restoration works on a treasure trove of scanned images and open for any and all feedback. I have a lot to learn (especially in colorization).
The first image is the original cabinet card. Relatively good shape given the age:
Hard to know how much to improve the image so just used my judgement.
Here is the final version. I wanted the borders to be more visible for the viewer and cleaned up yet not perfectly for a sense that it is still an old image:
I also did a portrait zoomed in version with the last image colorized. I leveraged the Neural Filter for Colization first and then did some hand work. Adds an intersting dimension yet not sure how much I like it compared to the non-colorized version. I need more practice on picking facial colors espeicially lips. Just a newbie on this front. Here is the starting image"
Restored view:
And colorized version:
Thanks in advance for any comments, feedback, and suggestions for where to learn more.
John Wheeler
FYI- Lucy was around 38 years old when this picture was taken in Ravenna Ohio
