A while back I discussed my work in scanning a photo album belonging to my great grandmother, Edith Fowler. (See this post). After scanning and annotating every photo in the album, I chose several for post-scan improvement using a wonderful program called Lightroom 5. From time to time I will be posting "before and after" photos, showing the state of a photo as it comes from a camera or a scanner as compared to its state after I apply various tools available in Lightroom 5. For the inaugural presentation I give you a photo of Edith's son Ray, (my great uncle), as a school boy. As you can see from the original scan, the photo was pasted a bit askew into the album. The actual photo is very small and very old. It is almost completely washed out except for Edith's blue ink annotation: "Ray home from school." When I first saw the photo and later scanned it I did not believe there was much hope of "saving" it, even using Lightroom 5. Well, much to my delight, I was able to produce a final print that vastly improves the original. I'm still a bit amazed. See what you think.
Before
After
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amazing
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