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Mon, Sep 7th - 8:05AM Is it possible to restore panoramic photographs? Over the years Panorama photo have become very popular but have been around for some time. Most often you will find school photos and groups of large people shot in panorama such as army, navy, and military groups. The longest Panorama I have restored is 53 inches wide! The photo was of the 17 windmills of Kinderdijk - Kinderdyke in Holland. It was shot on wide format film, at a guess on 6cm roll film and used a rotating camera to turn the film and the camera head at the same time, to expose a length of film long enough to produce a photo 53 x 10 inches long. The original was left outside in the rain still in its frame and as a result stuck to the glass and had to be peeled off in order to be scanned. The restoration took a long time and at 47 Million pixels it was re printed on high quality archive ink jet paper. Typical damage right across the whole panorama. The above is a small section from the far right hand side of the panorama showing just how detailed it is! Typically this type of photo is stored rolled up and in the loft. Moisture in the air and the constant heat and cold will have made the paper brittle, so when it is unrolled it may crack. Be careful it may break up. Should you decide to get it restored then it will have to be unrolled to be scanned. If you are posting it please put the rolled photo into a piece of large diameter tube, a carpet roll is best, or roll loosely and put in a card board box, padded out with tissue. A reunion of old army fellows, or royal navy chums often calls for the photos to be pulled out from storage but be prepared for some damage to be evident but do not fear as they can be restored. If there are many faces in the image, perhaps as many as 500 or more and the damage runs through the faces then the image can take some time and money to restore. If complete faces are missing and fully restored photo is required then the only way to fill in the gaps is with another face. Yes Panorama images can be restored Post them rolled up in a carpet tube The y will cost much more than a normal 10x8 to restore They will be re reprinted on archive quality paper with archive inks up to 60 inches wide I hope this helps Neil Comment (0)
Mon, Jul 20th - 3:21AM More photo restoration blog posts over at image-restore Hello everyone! I have more photo restoration blog posts and graphic eye candy at my photo restoration blog. See some awesome photomontage More restoration articles More great stuff Hope you dont mind nipping over to my site but I have more control over the code and presentation there. Thanks for viewing. Neil Comment (0)
Sat, Jun 6th - 12:38AM More artwork from Image-Restore.co.uk This image is a spin off from a never ending staircase illusion in an earlier post. Just though I would share it with you. larger version of the never ending staircase Comment (0)
Tue, May 19th - 7:23AM Never ending staircase illusion Now you have gained some photo restoration skills you can use them to create a realistic photomontage. Below is a Photoshop tutorial where I will help you create a never ending staircase. Never ending staircase Photo restorations are my speciality but for something a little different lets make a never ending staircase illusion from textured with wood, stone, grass or whatever you choose. When you see photo restorations, do you wonder how they were done?, you probably wonder how the illusions are done too?. Here is how to make your own photo montage illusion. Create a document in photo shop around 4000 x 2000 pixels. File / new / and fill in the pixels width and height. We need to show the rulers and change to centimetres. View / rulers Then right click on the now visible ruler and select centimetres. We need to show the gird now. View / show grid Now go to View / Snap to / Grid, to make sure the lines we draw are all consistent. To check that your screen settings are the same as mine go to edit / preferences / unit and rulers copy these settings in the above image Back to the image. On a new layer draw with the polygon lasso tool from the tools palette, a diamond. Use 5x3 squares per quarter to draw your diamond shape. This gives us an angle of just about 30 degrees which is very important for this to work. On new layers, draw the other two shapes as per the image above. Now merge the layers. Select the freshly drawn layers in the layers palette and merge them using Layer / merge layers. Copy the layer and paste and repeat this and arrange the steps as the image below. Select all these layers in the layers pallet and duplicate them all. Right click in the layers palette and select, duplicate layers. With the layers still selected flip them. Edit / transform / flip horizontal. Use this process by ordering your layers and copying and pasting to get the result below. Now let’s use something to make to the steps look more real. Find a picture of a stone slab or a piece of wood, plastic, metal or even grass and cut it out into the shape we first drew, (the diamond and its edges). You can do this on a separate layer and change the opacity of the layer in your layers palette so you can see the original diamond step underneath. Using wood this can be achieved fairly easily. You may need to use the warp or scale tools, or liquefy (sorry I won’t be explaining how to use these tools here - but search the net I am sure you find what you are looking for) Now repeat the steps we used to create the stair case and position your steps above the others and you will have your staircase. Now use it creatively! You can experiment with amount of steps just by shortening the sides of the stair case using the grid we first set up. Here is one in stone! I created this myself with some stone slabs and some clever cloning and shading. You could use anything, plastic, grass, just use your imagination. A larger version of this optical illusion never ending staircase Hope you enjoyed this tutorial brought to you by A quality photo restoration service www.image-restore.co.uk restorations of old and damaged photos. Comment (0)
Mon, May 4th - 1:36AM Over 115 positive user reviews! Recently your photo restoration reviews exceeded 100. I would like to say a big thank you to all of you for posting your reviews on FreeIndex. You have now posted over 115 positive reviews showing how much you appreciate our photo repair services. A special thank you and congratulations goes to Mr Richard Haskell from Hertfordshire who receives a FREE grade 2 photo restoration as he placed our 100th review! See your latest photo restoration reviews! Thanks again to you all! Image-Restore Comment (0)