APERTURE 2 & AUSTRALIA… reviving and restoring these old and very precious scanned images with Aperture 2.1 it is a lot easier then you think…
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Gunther Deichmann - restored images...for more and to
compare images
click on the GD
PhotoGallery upper left
corner on this page.
Whenever
I get the time I import some of my very old and
scanned images into Aperture 2.1
some
dating back 30 years. Due to age and storage
condition a few have deteriorated somewhat…loss of
color, fungus due to the tropical environment or just
good old age.
I used to use
Photoshop but now with Aperture 2
there is seldom the
need for it and at the same time I can re-catalog
them into my system with the Metadata. Restoring
Images that are extremely rare in particular old
traditional ceremonies with the Australian
Aboriginals seldom practiced today. I apply a variety
of tools and techniques to retouch the images covered
in fungus, scratches etc. with the
clone or
repair tool,
plus the Adjustment
Panel
gives me a ton of other
adjustments to bring the images back to life.
You be amazed what Aperture 2
is capable off,
including one of my favorites the Monochrome
mixer, given you
all the options for some cool looking Black &
White images, some of these old images actually look
better in Black & White.
I have incorporated a NEW GD PHOTO
GALLERY on my
blog page now, (upper left
side) there you
find a selection of images that have been treated in
Aperture 2 comparing the original with the restored
or converted image next to it. Now and then I upload
images into the GD Photo
Gallery for you
to compare, a lot easier then showing them all on the
Blog direct.
Please remember these are only
low resolution Images.
This is not image manipulation, I am only restoring
some old and precious photos that would have been
lost or considered unusable for publications without
altering the overall visual.
Most of these images had been scanned from slides a
long time ago for preservation and archiving purpose,
now we just go back in Time and fix what needs fixing
nothing else.
Aperture 2.1
handles the tiff format
real well and I have no problems importing files with
over 56 MB in size.
However some of the adjustment tools in
Aperture
2.1 cant be used
since they have been designed to work only with
the RAW image
format, but this
has not stopped me for doing most of my restorations
in Aperture 2
now, archiving and
bringing them back to life again.
GD
