Article(s): Tehaapapa III
Request: Can someone circle crop the figure on the right and make a png version of it? But leave this jpg version and crop it to the group photo, instead, and if possible recreate the portion covered by the circle in the process. Thanks.-- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 02:23, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Done on circle crop png version. --
Jenith (
talk) 04:16, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Charlie Patton
Request: Please crop out the Charlie Patton pic, rotate and maybe retouch. Maybe add a better background (cream or something), and remove the Charlie Patton lettering. Thanks. ♫GoP♫ T C N 13:27, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
You might be stepping into a copyright issue here. The whole photo may be free, but the image on the decoration by itself may not be. The image seems to have been taken (more or less) from an old photo, the copyright may have expired from that old photo (I don't know), but this somewhat stylized decoration image might be creative enough that it's considered a new copyrighted work. (By the way, here is a much better version of that image.) – JBarta ( talk) 13:55, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): User:Albacore/WWB, eventually William Blackford
Request: Touch up, remove blurriness. Albacore ( talk) 23:54, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Seems like an ok image just as it is. You're not going to get much improvement out of it... if any at all. – JBarta ( talk) 03:39, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Marcus Pollard
Request: Do something with them... Crop.
67.121.105.124 (
talk) 11:20, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done Did something with them... –
JBarta (
talk) 14:04, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Question: So... I guess the guy on the left is Marcus Pollard, and you'd like someone to attempt to crop a portrait of him for the article out of the group picture? Is that right?
Begoon
talk 00:35, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Los Rastrojos
Request: need grey background for the logo leave white center with soldier please thanks Vjiced ( talk) 21:30, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Well i scanned it from a brochure they were distibuting everyewhere in town internet and emails so yes its free and must be on commons what do you want me to go ask the criminal group if i have A copyright over their logo ARE YOU NUTS ? Vjiced ( talk) 17:45, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Vjiced, you didn't create the work and you don't own the copyright. That's settled. Now here's what you can do to keep the image... upload the logo (preferrably a round version of it) to en:Wikipedia (not commons) as a fair use logo of an organization. It's then available for use on en:Wikipedia with a few restrictions. Then request the commons image be speedily deleted. I realize this is a bit of work, but that's what is necessary to get that image into compliance so you can use it. If you need assistance along the way, leave a note on my talk page. – JBarta ( talk) 20:38, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): John William Pitt Kinau
Request: Clean up some major scratches and marks? KAVEBEAR ( talk) 16:52, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done: Done as requested.
PawełMM (
talk) 10:20, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Walter T. Galligan
Request: Cleanup - I plan to try for FP with this one. Thanks. – Connormah ( talk) 04:30, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
All in all it's not a bad picture. Maybe a tiny bit on the faded-blueish side, but nothing else that I can see. What sort of "cleanup" did you have in mind? – JBarta ( talk) 14:31, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
I suppose I should have looked more closely before I opened my piehole. I see assorted minor blemishes and dust specks. Those can be cleaned up easily enough. Is that what you were looking for? – JBarta ( talk) 14:39, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): R. H. Tawney, Liberal socialism
Request: Please can you oval crop and lighten the image (a lot). Thanks in advance. -- Peter ( Talk page) 21:51, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
{{
PD-old}}
to unlock the script. I would selectively despeckle this image (too noisy - maybe you have done that already)
Materialscientist (
talk) 08:01, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Krkonoše
Request: Will someone help me finish this panorama? It was only stitched with hugin so far. Maybe crop top or bottom a bit, then do some common image edits (levels, contrast, brightness etc.). I have also a special request to remove the kind of haze the mountains in very back are in, in general the contrast could probably be "normalized" all accross the depth of the image so that the mountains in the back are nicely visible. Thanks in advance! Kozuch ( talk) 22:56, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion:Adjusted as requested.
Centpacrr (
talk) 23:22, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Hare Pomare
Request: Clean up and oval crop into png version... KAVEBEAR ( talk) 02:20, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Done. Also made a png version for infoboxes. I made a typo in the summary (on the image page) resulting in a broken link. Not for the first time either! Does anyone know how to amend those summaries?
nagualdesign (
talk) 02:43, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): David Guetta
Request: Remove excess materials and ensure that the overall figure as-well as the face appears bigger in the biography.--( talk→ Kkm010 ←track) 04:35, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Done
Article(s): William Richards Castle
Request: Clean up noise... KAVEBEAR ( talk) 19:25, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): FFT filter? nagualdesign ( talk) 20:47, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Uploaded a better version from source. Where he finds these crap versions of images I'll never know. I take it back, he wasn't the uploader. Why I keep shooting off my mouth before I know what I'm talking about I'll never know.... –
JBarta (
talk) 22:34, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Kamiyashiki of Matsudaira Tadamasa, Matsu no Ōrōka
Request: Please remove the background in both cases and make it white. See further request on second image about the description plates. Gryffindor ( talk) 21:59, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
I made a couple quick & dirty mockups just to see what they would look like. (My first thought was they'd look awful, but I was wrong, they don't look all that bad.) Gryffindor, this about what you're expecting? If and when someone takes takes this request, please just overwrite mine. – JBarta ( talk) 23:47, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
I love this fading grey background on the second image! Could we try a fading blue on the first image, something reminiscent of a sky? That would be awesome, thank you all. Gryffindor ( talk) 07:10, 28 February 2012 (UTC) ps: I know the resolution is not good, the lighting was quite dark in the museum. But for the first image could you try to cut a little cleaner, for example the details of the shingles on the roof, also the roofs in the back parts have details that need to be cut out in detail. Sorry for all this work, it's greatly appreciated. Gryffindor ( talk) 07:23, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
I think if the main gate cutout is going to be used in the article it should probably be redone. The image as it is was only intended to be a rough mockup just to see what it looked like. – JBarta ( talk) 12:53, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
That image is clearly an "illustration" that would not likely to ever be confused as being an unaltered photograph of a real building. Its caption also makes it clear that it is a "1/30 scale architectural model" so it does not misrepresent what the image is. Centpacrr ( talk) 04:05, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Fort Sumter
Request: Found this and thought someone might like to give it a little TLC and clean it up nice. There's a higher resolution copy at the LOC. Upload over the original, but do it in two stages... do the crop/cleanup first and upload it. Then upload any brightness/contrast/gamma change. – JBarta ( talk) 22:34, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Request taken by PawełMM.
Done: Cleaned only.
PawełMM (
talk) 18:13, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s):
Request: Please remove the black line down the right hand side. Thanks.
Dianna (
talk) 20:55, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done –
JBarta (
talk) 20:59, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Eike Batista
Request: Remove excess materials from the image and ensure that the persons overall appearance and face must appear bigger in his biography.--( talk→ Kkm010 ←track) 04:41, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Err.. Sorry, I did that at the same time. I'll undo my version as the full image is quite nice - the whiteboard says a lot about the subject. nagualdesign ( talk) 04:52, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): United States Marine Corps
Request: Great old photo in need of cleanup. I'm thinking it would benefit from a slight rotation to the left... maybe using the window as a guide. Grab the high resolution tif from the LOC (link is on the image page). Please upload in two stages... first the crop, rotate & cleanup, then any brightness/contrast changes in a second upload. In all cases just upload over this original. – JBarta ( talk) 14:40, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Centpacrr, looking at your latest "study" (19:57, 6 March 2012) yes it's an improvement over the raw original, but I have to be honest... the cleanup job looks hurried and leaves almost as many spots as when you started. Plus there are circular marks on the left side. Can and should be done a WHOLE lot better. – JBarta ( talk) 21:26, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Hah! Reminds me of this:
“ | If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think fast, I talk fast and I need you guys to act fast if you wanna get out of this. So, pretty please... with sugar on top. Clean the fucking car. | ” |
— "The Wolf", Pulp Fiction |
Perhaps you're not used to being criticized, Centpacrr, but you're old enough to know better that to have a hissy fit every time someone pulls you up on something. So you're a big-shot in the ice hocky world. So what? Pull your socks up! nagualdesign ( talk) 04:46, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Okay, now that all the drama is over with and we're all friends again I'd like to offer some genuine advice, without wishing to sound condescending. Comparing the first upload by Centpacrr to his next-to-last upload I think I can see what went wrong here, and why JBarta commented on the quality of the work. This photo had millions of small black spots all over it (flyspecks, as CP put it). So many, in fact, that using the healing brush tool would simply shuffle those spots around the screen. Annoying, isn't it? This is because the healing brush looks around for texture to replace whatever is under the brush, and unfortunately there were so many spots on this image that they are simply treated as texture. Ergo, the healing brush was not the right tool for the job. There's some evidence of Centpacrr's frustration to the left side of the image too, where a large section appears to have been rotated unnecessarily. If you compare my first upload (with the summary, "Small spots removed") to the previous version by CP you may notice that I didn't use the healing brush at all. Here's what I did:
First of all I selected the spots (or at least the most contrasty spots, which was most of them). I did this by first taking a high-pass filter of the image, which gave a more uniform mid-gray image with more obvious spots. Then using the magic wand tool (with contiguous unchecked) I selected the darkest spots. That was perhaps half of them, so I continued adding to the selection less dark spots until I was satisfied that I had selected quite a lot of them, including all of the most obvious ones, as well as some details which I didn't want to affect (like the texture on the ground, but I'll get to that shortly). Once I was satisfied with my selection I discarded the high-pass and went back to the image. I expanded my selection by 2 pixels, then feathered it by 1 pixel. This gave me a slightly over-sized selection around each spot and, importantly, protected the majority of the image. To the selection (the spots) I ran a dust & scratches removal, which closed the spots without the need for cloning. It worked great on the spots, but now there were details lost here and there and the texture on the ground was blurred. Switching the layer that I had worked on to difference with the original on a layer beneath I could see exactly what effect I'd achieved and where I had removed texture unnecessarily. The spots I'd removed now showed up as white spots on a black background, and any lines or other shapes were where I'd blurred other details. I then took the eraser tool and cut out the details that I wanted to restore. When I switched the layer back from difference to normal and flattened the image those bits I'd cut out were filled back in with the original layer beneath. Voila! The flyspecks were gone. Sure there were plenty of large blobs and other things that were best tackled using healing or cloning, but the dust & scratches applied to the spots and only the spots gave a very good result, I'm sure you'll agree.
Well that's enough from me. I hope you learned something from this. Like I said, I don't wish to patronize anybody, I'm just openly sharing the techniques that I use, and I hope that you'll do the same sometime. Never mind all this 'proprietary techniques' secrecy, eh? Let's use the Graphic Lab as an opportunity to learn from one another. Kind regards, nagualdesign ( talk) 06:53, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
I took the liberty of cloning out more spots. Certainly not all... but quite a few more. Also took the liberty of adjusting it to be less contrasted. Personally I think that was an improvement. Unless someone else wants to pick over it a little more, I'll consider it done. All in all and after 17 edits, the result is a fine job gentlemen. –
JBarta (
talk) 21:41, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s):
Burt Glinn
Request: Please remove black lines along left and top. Thanks! Dianna ( talk) 06:11, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done I also cropped and enlarged it. Certainly could use a better image though. Why not
this one instead? –
JBarta (
talk) 06:21, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Boki (Hawaiian chief), Kuini Liliha
Request: Could someone recreate the corners of this image? Thanks. KAVEBEAR ( talk) 03:26, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done –
JBarta (
talk) 04:23, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Tokugawa
Request: cut and restitch so no seam... Kintetsubuffalo ( talk) 12:36, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Done with restitching some level:
According to this, the image is a " folding screen". It never was, nor never was really meant to be a single seamless image. I think we do a disservice by altering an old work of art in such an important way simply to satisfy our modern "widescreen" notions of how it could and should be. I think the panels of these multi-paneled artworks should remain just that... multi-paneled. ( Examples) That said, if someone wants to upload a separate version of the artwork showing it digitally stitched together, that would be fine, as long as such material alterations to the work are clearly noted. – JBarta ( talk) 20:12, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Seward Highway
Request: Should be fairly self-evident: giant crack in the windshield, too much dashboard visible, and the timestamp. It's a gray day in the shot, so I'm not sure if any color correction will help. – Fredddie ™ 02:14, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Article(s): The Crucified Soldier
Request: Please upload this tif with the data from File:Amorsoloposter.jpg. I have a derivative work to upload, but my upload of the original has failed 3 times due to my sh*** connection. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 03:43, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Article(s): Rothschild family
Request: Remove watermarking. Make white background (not transparent png, just white and leave as jpg). Remove "THE COAT OF ARMS" from the bottom. Don't adjust/enhance the colors or brightness or contrast. No "studies" or "interim" versions. If you take it, see it through to a quality completion. – JBarta ( talk) 18:21, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):Please see WP:PG and WP:OWN for guidance on how to make "requests" for assistance on WP. Centpacrr ( talk) 20:45, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Done: Done as requested.
PawełMM (
talk) 23:44, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Albert Kamehameha
Request: See above... KAVEBEAR ( talk) 01:54, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done: Background unsharpened & darkened. New file didn't created.
PawełMM (
talk) 08:06, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Kamehameha III
Request: Could someone oval crop the top image and then upload it as another image? Also can someone make a better square/rectangular crop of the second one from the first version to be placed as the lead image in the article? KAVEBEAR ( talk) 03:12, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Request taken by PawełMM.
Done: Done as requested.
PawełMM (
talk) 06:41, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Scott McGregor (model)
Request: Can someone make a seperate crop out of one of these. I dunno which is best, I'll leave that to the artist. If you cannot remove the woman from his head, keep her - but do something to make it more about him. Want to use it in an infobox - doesn't look good enough atm see. Rain the 1 03:16, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Article(s): Alfred Thomas Agate
Request: Clean up a little and turn black and white... KAVEBEAR ( talk) 05:33, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Done. Need verification. --
Jenith (
talk) 06:00, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): John Meares, Charles William Barkley
Request: Do something with them... KAVEBEAR ( talk) 00:09, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done: Done as requested (by me 2nd & 3rd).
PawełMM (
talk) 09:54, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): William S. Sadler & Lena Sadler
Request: Hey, could someone crop this to get rid of the border around the flyer? Also, I might be imagining it but it looks like the flyer could use a slight rotation so it's even with the frame. Mark Arsten ( talk) 02:25, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done –
JBarta (
talk) 02:53, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Jordan Rodrigues, Tim Pocock, Demi Harman and David Jones-Roberts
Request: Can you make a crop of Jordan Rodrigues who is the guy in the checkered shirt and then upload it over the existing file. For Tim Pocok, who is standing with Jordan in the white shirt - make a seperate crop. Demi Harman is the girl in the red dress in the second image - a crop and upload it over the existing file please. The third is model Holly Kagis and actor David Jones Roberts, can a seperate crop of David be made of this so Holly is retained in that image. Rain the 1 18:57, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
All done. Crystal clear instructions by the way... thank-you. –
JBarta (
talk) 01:50, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): John Cleveley the Younger
Request: Please do you best at cleaning these portraits up especially the first two. Thanks. KAVEBEAR ( talk) 06:06, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
On the second picture the dark brown stripe was lighted up. The larger demages of paint were removed. Crackes of paint were left, it is natural process of aging. PawełMM ( talk) 11:41, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Done: Done as requested.
PawełMM (
talk) 09:36, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Ralph Lauren
Request: Photographer's...thingy...in lower right (watermark?). Thanks in advance :) Nolelover Talk· Contribs 02:32, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion:
Done (yes, watermark) –
JBarta (
talk) 03:23, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Julia Alapai
Request: I understand this is a poor quality image, but can someone tilt and crop the frame away from this image. KAVEBEAR ( talk) 02:48, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done This isn't a poor quality image, this is a grease spot. At what point do you decide an image is just so bad the article is simply better off without it? –
JBarta (
talk) 03:31, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Tehaapapa III
Request: Can someone circle crop the figure on the right and make a png version of it? But leave this jpg version and crop it to the group photo, instead, and if possible recreate the portion covered by the circle in the process. Thanks.-- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 02:23, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Done on circle crop png version. --
Jenith (
talk) 04:16, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Charlie Patton
Request: Please crop out the Charlie Patton pic, rotate and maybe retouch. Maybe add a better background (cream or something), and remove the Charlie Patton lettering. Thanks. ♫GoP♫ T C N 13:27, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
You might be stepping into a copyright issue here. The whole photo may be free, but the image on the decoration by itself may not be. The image seems to have been taken (more or less) from an old photo, the copyright may have expired from that old photo (I don't know), but this somewhat stylized decoration image might be creative enough that it's considered a new copyrighted work. (By the way, here is a much better version of that image.) – JBarta ( talk) 13:55, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): User:Albacore/WWB, eventually William Blackford
Request: Touch up, remove blurriness. Albacore ( talk) 23:54, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Seems like an ok image just as it is. You're not going to get much improvement out of it... if any at all. – JBarta ( talk) 03:39, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Marcus Pollard
Request: Do something with them... Crop.
67.121.105.124 (
talk) 11:20, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done Did something with them... –
JBarta (
talk) 14:04, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Question: So... I guess the guy on the left is Marcus Pollard, and you'd like someone to attempt to crop a portrait of him for the article out of the group picture? Is that right?
Begoon
talk 00:35, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Los Rastrojos
Request: need grey background for the logo leave white center with soldier please thanks Vjiced ( talk) 21:30, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Well i scanned it from a brochure they were distibuting everyewhere in town internet and emails so yes its free and must be on commons what do you want me to go ask the criminal group if i have A copyright over their logo ARE YOU NUTS ? Vjiced ( talk) 17:45, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Vjiced, you didn't create the work and you don't own the copyright. That's settled. Now here's what you can do to keep the image... upload the logo (preferrably a round version of it) to en:Wikipedia (not commons) as a fair use logo of an organization. It's then available for use on en:Wikipedia with a few restrictions. Then request the commons image be speedily deleted. I realize this is a bit of work, but that's what is necessary to get that image into compliance so you can use it. If you need assistance along the way, leave a note on my talk page. – JBarta ( talk) 20:38, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): John William Pitt Kinau
Request: Clean up some major scratches and marks? KAVEBEAR ( talk) 16:52, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done: Done as requested.
PawełMM (
talk) 10:20, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Walter T. Galligan
Request: Cleanup - I plan to try for FP with this one. Thanks. – Connormah ( talk) 04:30, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
All in all it's not a bad picture. Maybe a tiny bit on the faded-blueish side, but nothing else that I can see. What sort of "cleanup" did you have in mind? – JBarta ( talk) 14:31, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
I suppose I should have looked more closely before I opened my piehole. I see assorted minor blemishes and dust specks. Those can be cleaned up easily enough. Is that what you were looking for? – JBarta ( talk) 14:39, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): R. H. Tawney, Liberal socialism
Request: Please can you oval crop and lighten the image (a lot). Thanks in advance. -- Peter ( Talk page) 21:51, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
{{
PD-old}}
to unlock the script. I would selectively despeckle this image (too noisy - maybe you have done that already)
Materialscientist (
talk) 08:01, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Krkonoše
Request: Will someone help me finish this panorama? It was only stitched with hugin so far. Maybe crop top or bottom a bit, then do some common image edits (levels, contrast, brightness etc.). I have also a special request to remove the kind of haze the mountains in very back are in, in general the contrast could probably be "normalized" all accross the depth of the image so that the mountains in the back are nicely visible. Thanks in advance! Kozuch ( talk) 22:56, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion:Adjusted as requested.
Centpacrr (
talk) 23:22, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Hare Pomare
Request: Clean up and oval crop into png version... KAVEBEAR ( talk) 02:20, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Done. Also made a png version for infoboxes. I made a typo in the summary (on the image page) resulting in a broken link. Not for the first time either! Does anyone know how to amend those summaries?
nagualdesign (
talk) 02:43, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): David Guetta
Request: Remove excess materials and ensure that the overall figure as-well as the face appears bigger in the biography.--( talk→ Kkm010 ←track) 04:35, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Done
Article(s): William Richards Castle
Request: Clean up noise... KAVEBEAR ( talk) 19:25, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): FFT filter? nagualdesign ( talk) 20:47, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Uploaded a better version from source. Where he finds these crap versions of images I'll never know. I take it back, he wasn't the uploader. Why I keep shooting off my mouth before I know what I'm talking about I'll never know.... –
JBarta (
talk) 22:34, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Kamiyashiki of Matsudaira Tadamasa, Matsu no Ōrōka
Request: Please remove the background in both cases and make it white. See further request on second image about the description plates. Gryffindor ( talk) 21:59, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
I made a couple quick & dirty mockups just to see what they would look like. (My first thought was they'd look awful, but I was wrong, they don't look all that bad.) Gryffindor, this about what you're expecting? If and when someone takes takes this request, please just overwrite mine. – JBarta ( talk) 23:47, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
I love this fading grey background on the second image! Could we try a fading blue on the first image, something reminiscent of a sky? That would be awesome, thank you all. Gryffindor ( talk) 07:10, 28 February 2012 (UTC) ps: I know the resolution is not good, the lighting was quite dark in the museum. But for the first image could you try to cut a little cleaner, for example the details of the shingles on the roof, also the roofs in the back parts have details that need to be cut out in detail. Sorry for all this work, it's greatly appreciated. Gryffindor ( talk) 07:23, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
I think if the main gate cutout is going to be used in the article it should probably be redone. The image as it is was only intended to be a rough mockup just to see what it looked like. – JBarta ( talk) 12:53, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
That image is clearly an "illustration" that would not likely to ever be confused as being an unaltered photograph of a real building. Its caption also makes it clear that it is a "1/30 scale architectural model" so it does not misrepresent what the image is. Centpacrr ( talk) 04:05, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Fort Sumter
Request: Found this and thought someone might like to give it a little TLC and clean it up nice. There's a higher resolution copy at the LOC. Upload over the original, but do it in two stages... do the crop/cleanup first and upload it. Then upload any brightness/contrast/gamma change. – JBarta ( talk) 22:34, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Request taken by PawełMM.
Done: Cleaned only.
PawełMM (
talk) 18:13, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s):
Request: Please remove the black line down the right hand side. Thanks.
Dianna (
talk) 20:55, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done –
JBarta (
talk) 20:59, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Eike Batista
Request: Remove excess materials from the image and ensure that the persons overall appearance and face must appear bigger in his biography.--( talk→ Kkm010 ←track) 04:41, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Err.. Sorry, I did that at the same time. I'll undo my version as the full image is quite nice - the whiteboard says a lot about the subject. nagualdesign ( talk) 04:52, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): United States Marine Corps
Request: Great old photo in need of cleanup. I'm thinking it would benefit from a slight rotation to the left... maybe using the window as a guide. Grab the high resolution tif from the LOC (link is on the image page). Please upload in two stages... first the crop, rotate & cleanup, then any brightness/contrast changes in a second upload. In all cases just upload over this original. – JBarta ( talk) 14:40, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Centpacrr, looking at your latest "study" (19:57, 6 March 2012) yes it's an improvement over the raw original, but I have to be honest... the cleanup job looks hurried and leaves almost as many spots as when you started. Plus there are circular marks on the left side. Can and should be done a WHOLE lot better. – JBarta ( talk) 21:26, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Hah! Reminds me of this:
“ | If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think fast, I talk fast and I need you guys to act fast if you wanna get out of this. So, pretty please... with sugar on top. Clean the fucking car. | ” |
— "The Wolf", Pulp Fiction |
Perhaps you're not used to being criticized, Centpacrr, but you're old enough to know better that to have a hissy fit every time someone pulls you up on something. So you're a big-shot in the ice hocky world. So what? Pull your socks up! nagualdesign ( talk) 04:46, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Okay, now that all the drama is over with and we're all friends again I'd like to offer some genuine advice, without wishing to sound condescending. Comparing the first upload by Centpacrr to his next-to-last upload I think I can see what went wrong here, and why JBarta commented on the quality of the work. This photo had millions of small black spots all over it (flyspecks, as CP put it). So many, in fact, that using the healing brush tool would simply shuffle those spots around the screen. Annoying, isn't it? This is because the healing brush looks around for texture to replace whatever is under the brush, and unfortunately there were so many spots on this image that they are simply treated as texture. Ergo, the healing brush was not the right tool for the job. There's some evidence of Centpacrr's frustration to the left side of the image too, where a large section appears to have been rotated unnecessarily. If you compare my first upload (with the summary, "Small spots removed") to the previous version by CP you may notice that I didn't use the healing brush at all. Here's what I did:
First of all I selected the spots (or at least the most contrasty spots, which was most of them). I did this by first taking a high-pass filter of the image, which gave a more uniform mid-gray image with more obvious spots. Then using the magic wand tool (with contiguous unchecked) I selected the darkest spots. That was perhaps half of them, so I continued adding to the selection less dark spots until I was satisfied that I had selected quite a lot of them, including all of the most obvious ones, as well as some details which I didn't want to affect (like the texture on the ground, but I'll get to that shortly). Once I was satisfied with my selection I discarded the high-pass and went back to the image. I expanded my selection by 2 pixels, then feathered it by 1 pixel. This gave me a slightly over-sized selection around each spot and, importantly, protected the majority of the image. To the selection (the spots) I ran a dust & scratches removal, which closed the spots without the need for cloning. It worked great on the spots, but now there were details lost here and there and the texture on the ground was blurred. Switching the layer that I had worked on to difference with the original on a layer beneath I could see exactly what effect I'd achieved and where I had removed texture unnecessarily. The spots I'd removed now showed up as white spots on a black background, and any lines or other shapes were where I'd blurred other details. I then took the eraser tool and cut out the details that I wanted to restore. When I switched the layer back from difference to normal and flattened the image those bits I'd cut out were filled back in with the original layer beneath. Voila! The flyspecks were gone. Sure there were plenty of large blobs and other things that were best tackled using healing or cloning, but the dust & scratches applied to the spots and only the spots gave a very good result, I'm sure you'll agree.
Well that's enough from me. I hope you learned something from this. Like I said, I don't wish to patronize anybody, I'm just openly sharing the techniques that I use, and I hope that you'll do the same sometime. Never mind all this 'proprietary techniques' secrecy, eh? Let's use the Graphic Lab as an opportunity to learn from one another. Kind regards, nagualdesign ( talk) 06:53, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
I took the liberty of cloning out more spots. Certainly not all... but quite a few more. Also took the liberty of adjusting it to be less contrasted. Personally I think that was an improvement. Unless someone else wants to pick over it a little more, I'll consider it done. All in all and after 17 edits, the result is a fine job gentlemen. –
JBarta (
talk) 21:41, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s):
Burt Glinn
Request: Please remove black lines along left and top. Thanks! Dianna ( talk) 06:11, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done I also cropped and enlarged it. Certainly could use a better image though. Why not
this one instead? –
JBarta (
talk) 06:21, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Boki (Hawaiian chief), Kuini Liliha
Request: Could someone recreate the corners of this image? Thanks. KAVEBEAR ( talk) 03:26, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done –
JBarta (
talk) 04:23, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Tokugawa
Request: cut and restitch so no seam... Kintetsubuffalo ( talk) 12:36, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Done with restitching some level:
According to this, the image is a " folding screen". It never was, nor never was really meant to be a single seamless image. I think we do a disservice by altering an old work of art in such an important way simply to satisfy our modern "widescreen" notions of how it could and should be. I think the panels of these multi-paneled artworks should remain just that... multi-paneled. ( Examples) That said, if someone wants to upload a separate version of the artwork showing it digitally stitched together, that would be fine, as long as such material alterations to the work are clearly noted. – JBarta ( talk) 20:12, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Seward Highway
Request: Should be fairly self-evident: giant crack in the windshield, too much dashboard visible, and the timestamp. It's a gray day in the shot, so I'm not sure if any color correction will help. – Fredddie ™ 02:14, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Article(s): The Crucified Soldier
Request: Please upload this tif with the data from File:Amorsoloposter.jpg. I have a derivative work to upload, but my upload of the original has failed 3 times due to my sh*** connection. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 03:43, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Article(s): Rothschild family
Request: Remove watermarking. Make white background (not transparent png, just white and leave as jpg). Remove "THE COAT OF ARMS" from the bottom. Don't adjust/enhance the colors or brightness or contrast. No "studies" or "interim" versions. If you take it, see it through to a quality completion. – JBarta ( talk) 18:21, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):Please see WP:PG and WP:OWN for guidance on how to make "requests" for assistance on WP. Centpacrr ( talk) 20:45, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Done: Done as requested.
PawełMM (
talk) 23:44, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Albert Kamehameha
Request: See above... KAVEBEAR ( talk) 01:54, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done: Background unsharpened & darkened. New file didn't created.
PawełMM (
talk) 08:06, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Kamehameha III
Request: Could someone oval crop the top image and then upload it as another image? Also can someone make a better square/rectangular crop of the second one from the first version to be placed as the lead image in the article? KAVEBEAR ( talk) 03:12, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Request taken by PawełMM.
Done: Done as requested.
PawełMM (
talk) 06:41, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Scott McGregor (model)
Request: Can someone make a seperate crop out of one of these. I dunno which is best, I'll leave that to the artist. If you cannot remove the woman from his head, keep her - but do something to make it more about him. Want to use it in an infobox - doesn't look good enough atm see. Rain the 1 03:16, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Article(s): Alfred Thomas Agate
Request: Clean up a little and turn black and white... KAVEBEAR ( talk) 05:33, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Done. Need verification. --
Jenith (
talk) 06:00, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): John Meares, Charles William Barkley
Request: Do something with them... KAVEBEAR ( talk) 00:09, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done: Done as requested (by me 2nd & 3rd).
PawełMM (
talk) 09:54, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): William S. Sadler & Lena Sadler
Request: Hey, could someone crop this to get rid of the border around the flyer? Also, I might be imagining it but it looks like the flyer could use a slight rotation so it's even with the frame. Mark Arsten ( talk) 02:25, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done –
JBarta (
talk) 02:53, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Jordan Rodrigues, Tim Pocock, Demi Harman and David Jones-Roberts
Request: Can you make a crop of Jordan Rodrigues who is the guy in the checkered shirt and then upload it over the existing file. For Tim Pocok, who is standing with Jordan in the white shirt - make a seperate crop. Demi Harman is the girl in the red dress in the second image - a crop and upload it over the existing file please. The third is model Holly Kagis and actor David Jones Roberts, can a seperate crop of David be made of this so Holly is retained in that image. Rain the 1 18:57, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
All done. Crystal clear instructions by the way... thank-you. –
JBarta (
talk) 01:50, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): John Cleveley the Younger
Request: Please do you best at cleaning these portraits up especially the first two. Thanks. KAVEBEAR ( talk) 06:06, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
On the second picture the dark brown stripe was lighted up. The larger demages of paint were removed. Crackes of paint were left, it is natural process of aging. PawełMM ( talk) 11:41, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Done: Done as requested.
PawełMM (
talk) 09:36, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Ralph Lauren
Request: Photographer's...thingy...in lower right (watermark?). Thanks in advance :) Nolelover Talk· Contribs 02:32, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion:
Done (yes, watermark) –
JBarta (
talk) 03:23, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Article(s): Julia Alapai
Request: I understand this is a poor quality image, but can someone tilt and crop the frame away from this image. KAVEBEAR ( talk) 02:48, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done This isn't a poor quality image, this is a grease spot. At what point do you decide an image is just so bad the article is simply better off without it? –
JBarta (
talk) 03:31, 28 March 2012 (UTC)