Vintage Varenna.... maybe..

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 I  have  made  one of my  photographs  from my Italian  trip into a vintage postcard  of Varenna ... the opposite  work to that which I normally do ..ie  restore old and damaged  Victorian  images  to their  original state where possible  so ... instead of removing creases and torn corners I  have re introduced them , taken the  vibrant colours back to faded sepia .... Typed  in the name with an old typewriter Font  and generally abused the image ...

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Here is the  original #1 ... just tweaked  it..and altered the perspective using the perspective tool in CS6  #2

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Yes .. I do too Judy  to be truthful ... It was an exercise really as I was a bit bored this afternoon lol..  It was just so quiet on here so I  thought I'd just have to amuse meself .....

[Denis]

I like it, adds a new (or old!) way of looking at your images

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Polly and I have a long history of restoring old photos - that's how we met. I just wonder how many we've restored over the last 10 years.

Polly,  I was tempted to say 'can you scan it at 600 dpi and would you like it coloured?'

Private joke

Thousands  haven't we.? I still have them all on my back up hard drive....  I remember one restore took me 178 hours to do ....   We were always struggling to get people to scan old photos correctly though ... You need such a high resolution copy  to do a good quality restore.  Hence  the private joke ... It seemed we were forever asking people to rescan their old pics..... 

Thanks for your comments Ron...  I'm pleased you think it would pass as an old photo... It was an interesting exercise. 

It's a different  perspective as you said Denis on my holiday photos ... One has to avoid having obvious 21 century artefacts  in the frame though ...lol 

[Black Pearl]

That is a superb bit off work and the shot really lens itself to the 'vintage' treatment.

[FUJI]

Beautifully and realistically done.....

But,I can't help thinking we are a funny bunch?

I bet all of us who dabble in processing have been handed a wallet/ handbag battered 1950s print then asked if we can do something to restore it minus stains, scratches and creases.

About two years ago, I spent a couple of weeks restoring and then making positives of hundred year old glass plate negatives.

Now, we sometimes enjoy, shooting a photograph taken through the best, up to date digital equipment, then attempt to make it look like a wallet/handbag battered 1950s print, ripe for restoration 

This isn't a critisism, just an observation.

 

FUJI

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Yes you are absolutely right Fooj .... We seem to be mad as hatters on this forum ... Some of us certainly seem to test the boundaries don't we?    I think sometimes one does something ..just cos one can ! I think it just proves that nostalgia plays a huge role in our lives... Look at the photos of Spitfires , old steam trains , old farm implements and machinery that we drool over when they appear on here ... We  love old stuff .... It's in our DNA  I suspect. It's like deconstructing... Quite satisfying too. Thanks for your observations ... It  just highlights what a huge area is covered now by photography and adjacent digital technology.. I find it quite inspiring to have all this at my disposal....art and creativity  has never been  more accessible.

Mornin' BP .... Thanks .... If you look carefully there are two very large refuse collection skips  made of stainless steel  inside a little hedged area bottom right of the pic that could have looked out of place /date but they aren't obvious.

I added a film grain filter after I had arrived at the right level of faded sepia then  dropped it onto an old vintage edge frame in Elements 5 that I have.  I used the smudge tool on lighten option to drag and extend some creases in the photo framed edge into the image itself. Lastly just added the old typewriter font with our hotel name on it as that was taken from our terrace.   

It's been a bit of fun so thank you all for joining in... Your comments are always appreciated gang .

 

[Korky]

Yes, the treatment you've given this looks just about spot on - I like it very much.

A couple of bits of modernity (is that a word?) that could be blobbed out, but overall, a top twiddle.

Korky

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I'll have a twiddle with my blobber maybe later  Korky ...

[Kobione]

Well done Polly - as already said, really quite the reverse of what a lot of image tweaking is about, but you have got it right!!