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Please crop the proprietary watermark in the bottom left corner, so that the image can be used in Daniel Roher's article. --
Bearcat (
talk) 14:03, 16 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Please remove watermark, if possible. I hope the work will be easier than it looks. --
Vysotsky (
talk) 09:51, 24 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Discussion
Done –
Pbrks(
t •
c) 22:56, 28 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Great job. Probably not easy. Thanks.
Vysotsky (
talk) 19:24, 29 January 2022 (UTC)reply
These kinds really aren't too bad, since it just requires adjusting the levels of the text to match the image. The harder ones are where logos are completely opaque, and you have to "guess" what should be behind it. –
Pbrks(
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c) 17:11, 30 January 2022 (UTC)reply
To the talented graphists, I would like to request that this image be cropped on the edges, and be made more clear, and that the graphists make any additional edits as they see fit. Thank you, as always! --
West Virginian (talk) 01:20, 21 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Hi folks, our article on the recently deceased Theresa M. Korn contains a portrait of her. It is a crop from a photo apparently published at the obituary and it appears to be the only photo showing her available in the net. However, the aspect ratio of the image isn't exactly right - even though faces come in all shapes, the face very obviously looks somewhat too wide (also in the original image, not only in our crop). Most probably something went wrong in the image scanning or repo-shooting of the original photo, or in some image conversion or resizing before the image was uploaded to the net. Since we have no other image for comparison, we don't know the correct ratio, but I think we could still tweak the ratio at least a little bit by trial and error while being careful to not overdo it. Perhaps there are even some known typically occuring aspect ratio error constants, so that they could be tried to fix the aspect ratio again (at least if an image, after applying one of these factors, would result in more naturally looking proportions). Please have a look and let's see what you can do to improve the image of this lady. Thanks. --
Matthiaspaul (
talk) 23:11, 4 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Discussion
@
Matthiaspaul: I'm not so sure that the image is indeed too wide. The glasses that she is wearing are almost perfect circles in the image, and changing the aspect ratio to be less wide would result in tall, oval glasses, which is likely not correct. –
Pbrks(
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c) 23:18, 4 February 2022 (UTC)reply
A fuller (and not overscaled) image can be found here:
https://plaza.sbs.arizona.edu/238. I think this image would be better than the one already in use. –
Pbrks(
t •
c) 23:29, 4 February 2022 (UTC)reply
This uncropped version of the portrait is indeed the better choice. At only 6 KB in size, I think it is already reduced enough so that we do not need to crop it for "fair use", don't you think? --
Matthiaspaul (
talk) 00:01, 5 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Yes, the uncropped version would be just fine for fair-use. –
Pbrks(
t •
c) 00:04, 5 February 2022 (UTC)reply
To the talented graphists, I would like to request for this photo to be cropped as needed along the edges, and for it to be made more clear and improved in any additional ways the graphists see fit. This may require recapture of the image from the following source: Prillerman, Byrd, ed. (January 1911).
"Prof. William H. Davis of Charleston, W. Va"(PDF). The Institute Monthly. IV (II).
Institute, West Virginia:
West Virginia Colored Institute: 2 – via Drain-Jordan Library, West Virginia State University. Please let me know if you have any questions in the meantime. –
West Virginian (talk) 18:08, 31 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Discussion
Done - Extracted a larger resolution from the PDF, converted to BW, contrast, blurred slightly, and ran through a high pass. The image could still use some manual cleaning (e.g. not just blurring the background), but it would be quite extensive. –
Pbrks(
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c) 19:24, 31 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Pbrks, thank you for taking the time to greatly improve and enhance this image. I appreciate it! --
West Virginian (talk) 23:36, 6 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Please crop and check the white balance of this photo
Please crop the photo so that it fits better in the infobox. If it's cut from the left up to about the coffee cup and from the right up to the chair back it would result in a more or less square image. The white balance also seems a bit off to me, too yellow. However, I can't be sure that it might just be my screen. --
Roger (Dodger67) (
talk) 09:19, 1 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Stanley Avenue, Salisbury, 1936 (capital of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe)
Article(s)
Stella Madzimbamuto - and probably other Rhodesia/Zimbabwe history articles.
Request
Could you remove the watermark text in the top center? The legendary
User:Adam Cuerden did about half the work, covering half with sky, and the other half with a much less obtrusive beige rather than bright green. Could you finish the job? If you can explain how you did it, you would not only be doing a service to the article writer, but I could then do it with other images, which I do get some at times. (For example, I just uploaded
File:Amanda Seales on Adweek.jpg and
File:Caitlin McGee on Adweek.jpg that also have some prominent text that I would love to remove, and I'd do it myself if you tell me how!) I've done
some GIMP smudge tool work before, but would love to know a better way! --
GRuban (
talk) 20:41, 7 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Discussion
@
GRuban: I found a version without the watermark at all, albeit, it is slightly cropped from the right. I've uploaded over the original; let me know if this works. –
Pbrks(
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c) 21:11, 7 February 2022 (UTC)reply
On second thought, never mind, the quality is noticeably worse; I'll work on manually removing the watermark. –
Pbrks(
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c) 21:13, 7 February 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Pbrks: That's wonderful! How did you do it? --
GRuban (
talk) 21:54, 7 February 2022 (UTC)reply
@
GRuban: For this specific one, I put the not-as-good version behind it in another layer, scaled it to the right dimensions, and then erased the watermark from the top later. Then, I merged the layers and used the clone and heal tools to get it looking right.
That worked specifically for this image, since we had two versions of it. However, when removing watermarks, I usually just use the clone and heal tools. They generally work much better, in regards to blending, than the smudge tool. There are many tutorials online you can find to help you on how to remove watermarks using these tools. Let me know if you have any questions. –
Pbrks(
t •
c) 06:13, 9 February 2022 (UTC)reply
This image was sourced from a scan of a 1954 newspaper and may require some sharpening and overall improvement as the graphist sees fit. This image is sourced from here:
"Leon P. Miller"(PDF). St. Paul Recorder.
St. Paul, Minnesota. October 8, 1954. p. 8. Retrieved February 6, 2022 – via
Chronicling America. The appropriate justification for use has been applied to the
image’s Wikipedia page. –
West Virginian (talk) 23:40, 6 February 2022 (UTC)reply
I uploaded these, but don't know how to crop on this platform. Please crop each to the photo proper. Thanks!! --
Silence of Järvenpää (
talk) 20:35, 25 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Please remove the little blot on her face and make any other touchups you find necessary. Thanks in advance,
Étienne Dolet (
talk) 23:31, 26 February 2022 (UTC)reply
This page, part of the Graphics Lab Wikiproject, is an
archive of requests for 2022.
Please do not edit the contents of this page. You can submit new requests here.
Please crop the proprietary watermark in the bottom left corner, so that the image can be used in Daniel Roher's article. --
Bearcat (
talk) 14:03, 16 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Please remove watermark, if possible. I hope the work will be easier than it looks. --
Vysotsky (
talk) 09:51, 24 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Discussion
Done –
Pbrks(
t •
c) 22:56, 28 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Great job. Probably not easy. Thanks.
Vysotsky (
talk) 19:24, 29 January 2022 (UTC)reply
These kinds really aren't too bad, since it just requires adjusting the levels of the text to match the image. The harder ones are where logos are completely opaque, and you have to "guess" what should be behind it. –
Pbrks(
t •
c) 17:11, 30 January 2022 (UTC)reply
To the talented graphists, I would like to request that this image be cropped on the edges, and be made more clear, and that the graphists make any additional edits as they see fit. Thank you, as always! --
West Virginian (talk) 01:20, 21 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Hi folks, our article on the recently deceased Theresa M. Korn contains a portrait of her. It is a crop from a photo apparently published at the obituary and it appears to be the only photo showing her available in the net. However, the aspect ratio of the image isn't exactly right - even though faces come in all shapes, the face very obviously looks somewhat too wide (also in the original image, not only in our crop). Most probably something went wrong in the image scanning or repo-shooting of the original photo, or in some image conversion or resizing before the image was uploaded to the net. Since we have no other image for comparison, we don't know the correct ratio, but I think we could still tweak the ratio at least a little bit by trial and error while being careful to not overdo it. Perhaps there are even some known typically occuring aspect ratio error constants, so that they could be tried to fix the aspect ratio again (at least if an image, after applying one of these factors, would result in more naturally looking proportions). Please have a look and let's see what you can do to improve the image of this lady. Thanks. --
Matthiaspaul (
talk) 23:11, 4 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Discussion
@
Matthiaspaul: I'm not so sure that the image is indeed too wide. The glasses that she is wearing are almost perfect circles in the image, and changing the aspect ratio to be less wide would result in tall, oval glasses, which is likely not correct. –
Pbrks(
t •
c) 23:18, 4 February 2022 (UTC)reply
A fuller (and not overscaled) image can be found here:
https://plaza.sbs.arizona.edu/238. I think this image would be better than the one already in use. –
Pbrks(
t •
c) 23:29, 4 February 2022 (UTC)reply
This uncropped version of the portrait is indeed the better choice. At only 6 KB in size, I think it is already reduced enough so that we do not need to crop it for "fair use", don't you think? --
Matthiaspaul (
talk) 00:01, 5 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Yes, the uncropped version would be just fine for fair-use. –
Pbrks(
t •
c) 00:04, 5 February 2022 (UTC)reply
To the talented graphists, I would like to request for this photo to be cropped as needed along the edges, and for it to be made more clear and improved in any additional ways the graphists see fit. This may require recapture of the image from the following source: Prillerman, Byrd, ed. (January 1911).
"Prof. William H. Davis of Charleston, W. Va"(PDF). The Institute Monthly. IV (II).
Institute, West Virginia:
West Virginia Colored Institute: 2 – via Drain-Jordan Library, West Virginia State University. Please let me know if you have any questions in the meantime. –
West Virginian (talk) 18:08, 31 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Discussion
Done - Extracted a larger resolution from the PDF, converted to BW, contrast, blurred slightly, and ran through a high pass. The image could still use some manual cleaning (e.g. not just blurring the background), but it would be quite extensive. –
Pbrks(
t •
c) 19:24, 31 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Pbrks, thank you for taking the time to greatly improve and enhance this image. I appreciate it! --
West Virginian (talk) 23:36, 6 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Please crop and check the white balance of this photo
Please crop the photo so that it fits better in the infobox. If it's cut from the left up to about the coffee cup and from the right up to the chair back it would result in a more or less square image. The white balance also seems a bit off to me, too yellow. However, I can't be sure that it might just be my screen. --
Roger (Dodger67) (
talk) 09:19, 1 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Stanley Avenue, Salisbury, 1936 (capital of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe)
Article(s)
Stella Madzimbamuto - and probably other Rhodesia/Zimbabwe history articles.
Request
Could you remove the watermark text in the top center? The legendary
User:Adam Cuerden did about half the work, covering half with sky, and the other half with a much less obtrusive beige rather than bright green. Could you finish the job? If you can explain how you did it, you would not only be doing a service to the article writer, but I could then do it with other images, which I do get some at times. (For example, I just uploaded
File:Amanda Seales on Adweek.jpg and
File:Caitlin McGee on Adweek.jpg that also have some prominent text that I would love to remove, and I'd do it myself if you tell me how!) I've done
some GIMP smudge tool work before, but would love to know a better way! --
GRuban (
talk) 20:41, 7 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Discussion
@
GRuban: I found a version without the watermark at all, albeit, it is slightly cropped from the right. I've uploaded over the original; let me know if this works. –
Pbrks(
t •
c) 21:11, 7 February 2022 (UTC)reply
On second thought, never mind, the quality is noticeably worse; I'll work on manually removing the watermark. –
Pbrks(
t •
c) 21:13, 7 February 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Pbrks: That's wonderful! How did you do it? --
GRuban (
talk) 21:54, 7 February 2022 (UTC)reply
@
GRuban: For this specific one, I put the not-as-good version behind it in another layer, scaled it to the right dimensions, and then erased the watermark from the top later. Then, I merged the layers and used the clone and heal tools to get it looking right.
That worked specifically for this image, since we had two versions of it. However, when removing watermarks, I usually just use the clone and heal tools. They generally work much better, in regards to blending, than the smudge tool. There are many tutorials online you can find to help you on how to remove watermarks using these tools. Let me know if you have any questions. –
Pbrks(
t •
c) 06:13, 9 February 2022 (UTC)reply
This image was sourced from a scan of a 1954 newspaper and may require some sharpening and overall improvement as the graphist sees fit. This image is sourced from here:
"Leon P. Miller"(PDF). St. Paul Recorder.
St. Paul, Minnesota. October 8, 1954. p. 8. Retrieved February 6, 2022 – via
Chronicling America. The appropriate justification for use has been applied to the
image’s Wikipedia page. –
West Virginian (talk) 23:40, 6 February 2022 (UTC)reply
I uploaded these, but don't know how to crop on this platform. Please crop each to the photo proper. Thanks!! --
Silence of Järvenpää (
talk) 20:35, 25 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Please remove the little blot on her face and make any other touchups you find necessary. Thanks in advance,
Étienne Dolet (
talk) 23:31, 26 February 2022 (UTC)reply