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My daughter at the age of one year. The portrait was originally beautiful and colorful, but it faded and yellowed over the years. I brought the picture home with me last time I visited my daughter, and today, with my quite limited photo-shopping program, I fiddled and fixed and came up with what I think is an improvement, but, by no means, is the result as good as was the original. I printed the copy on picture-quality paper and put the copy in the frame which held the original. The yellowed, faded version should be put away in a dark place to insure that it doesn't fade further.
Nice. Lovely baby.
ReplyDeleteOh, the old one should be stored in acid free paper.
ReplyDeleteSusan, thanks. The old picture should definitely be stored acid free paper.
ReplyDeleteAlison's dress was beautiful, hand-sewn, in pale blue batiste with tiny tucks in the yoke.
Mimi, it looks a lot like my old baby portrait.
ReplyDeleteThere's a spelling error in your headline, btw.
Really, Mark? It looks like my baby picture, too, but I'm her mother. :-) Someone once told me that her fingers look like little shrimp - the shrimp that will probably be scarce quite soon.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the correction, Eagle-Eye. I fixed my mistake.
Yaay! I helpded!
ReplyDeleteThe composition, certainly is like mine, though I was looking a little away from the camera, and had a kewpie-doll curl on top of my head.
Her mother's daughter. Yup!
ReplyDeleteShe looks wonderfully rapt and expectant. Wondeerful! I always feel for the poor guy behind the camera gyrating with a squeaky toy trying to get the kid to look wonderful...
ReplyDeleteAh yes, Mark. The Kewpie curl. Alison's hair wasn't long enough to make a curl.
ReplyDeleteOstrich, ya think?
Bishop Alan, Alison was a little frightened by the experience. She's looking at me standing beside the photographer with what I believe is a, "Get me out of here!" expression.
The person behind the camera had to have a special kind of patience to photograph babies and children.
What Susan said ... plus: the backing board for the framed print should be alkaline. (You can get some at most art supply stores nowadays.) And don't display the print in direct sunlight. You will be astonished at how quickly digital prints fade ... alas.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is my job to know these things.
Amazing. Perhaps we could preserve the Anglican Communion this way, too - and, improve the look.
ReplyDeleteA little photoshopping, acid free paper framed on alkaline backing board.
Eh, voila!
Thanks, friends. I'm taking note of the advice about both pictures.
ReplyDeleteA little photoshopping, acid free paper framed on alkaline backing board.
Elizabeth, that's wonderful.
Cute baby!
ReplyDeleteLike mother like daughter. Both lovely.
ReplyDeleteLovely baby. Nice restoration job too. You left the color saturation soft and subtle.
ReplyDeleteCathy and Amelia, thank you.
ReplyDeleteBooCat, that's as much color as I could get and still keep the skin tones natural.
That is such a sweet photo... yellow or pink, no matter, it is a of a tender moment (even if Alison was terrified).
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