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Finally Friday!

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Married…With Children (1987-1997)

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Majestic JJ

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I found this meme, and now this one pops up in my head every time I see a russian or a tankie claim that the USSR "saved the world from nazism" and ignore this "minor" detail.

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today’s 10 minute project: fixing a dark photo

It happens, the lighting in a picture isn’t what it should be and you get something you can’t really see so well. Here, take for instance this snapshot taken at Disneyland in 1975 on slide, as seen through the handheld viewer:

Not the worst but definitely not the best. So first let’s give it a scan at 2400dpi… and I made the executive decision not to turn on ICE to remove the dust, since it would probably attack the image rather than just the aberrations. Not shown here are what the previews of what the scanner’s color restoration tools produced since they came out too light, and since they’re inflexible to tame that down I chose not to use them.

First I hit it with a tool specifically for fixing darkness and shadows, Kodak’s SHO (Shadows & Highlights Optimizer) filter, though IrfanView. Tweaking it to improve the highlights and shadow reduction control, and because it’s got a lot of sunset coloration reduce the saturation just a little.

Now a runthrough, while it’s still in the editor [sorry, no intermediate image included here], with Kodak’s ROC (Restore Original Colors) filter to cut back on the sunset coloration instantly and brighten this up a bit by adjusting the brightness, then the limits for less black and more white.

The result is a slight bit grainy, as too-dark photos tend to turn out, but I won’t try to fix that because it’s actually not that noisy. Saving the result…

Yeah, that’s more like it!

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Citroën SM 1972. 📸 Collecting Cars. - source Rétro Passion Automobile.

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This is amazing

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“Ok, I have one more.”

Sigourney Weaver for The NYTimes Style Magazine