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Watch how our 1850 friend, Bernice, transforms before your very eyes into brilliant 21st century color!

The first image was painted using filters from Photoshop.  The color was a bit too high chroma, so I fussed with a few other filters to make Bernice look like she's under a glass frame, tweaked the gamma a bit, and even added a painted background to make her image look more authentic, like she was sitting in a portrait studio.  Then added texture to the frame part to make it look like old canvas, blurred that, then projected that lens flare again.  The last image is the black and white jpg I found online.  Makes me wonder what the original photo looked like, and what colors Bernice actually wore.  I guessed her outfit to be in jewel tones, popular for the period.  I gave her the name Bernice because she looks like someone who is normally dull looking and doesn't get dressed up that often, except for a picture.  I'm also guessing that she was she moved to the U.S. from Britian and this photo was her way to send word to her folks that her life as a schoolmistress is going well, but no husband yet...

 

Now Bernice looks like her picture was taken just yesterday.   

 
   

 


 
 
sebastiana on
Re: Tonight's Experiment: Making an old photo look new
With the teeny tiny thumbnails in the inbox view, at first glance while reading messages from Adam I thought you had gotten a bad picture of HWMNBN and had turned him into a girl. *laugh*

I'm just having one of those days, and I like it...
valentinaxxx on
Re: Tonight's Experiment: Making an old photo look new
That is right!  It's the thin lips and eyes.  Bernice could've been a distant relative!!!
PUSSYPATTER on
Re: Tonight's Experiment: Making an old photo look new
Hey! *tossing Greg's pants out the window to him before Tom gets to the bedroom* I just ran by to Spam your inbox with this Anti-Spam note to say "Thank You" for taking the time to stop in at my blog Boo.

 

Hey, that's pretty good girl, so you getting into restoration or what?

 

Wendy

valentinaxxx on
Re: Tonight's Experiment: Making an old photo look new
Hey, hey, hey! 

I just love old images and antiques.  Thought I'd give this one a modern look.  The experiment turned out well, eh?  Thanks for stopping by.  You're always welcome here, Boo!!!

~V

PUSSYPATTER on
Re: Tonight's Experiment: Making an old photo look new
Heck yeah it came out good. You do know that there are a lot of people who do that type of work for 'real money' don't you Boo?

 

Wendy

valentinaxxx on
Re: Tonight's Experiment: Making an old photo look new
Oh, of course I do!  And this was just with Photoshop.  Yep.  I should be doing this stuff for a living.  I've got more images coming...

 

PUSSYPATTER on
Re: Tonight's Experiment: Making an old photo look new
Cool, so when you gonna start door knocking and trying to sell your services Boo? 

 

Wendy

valentinaxxx on
Re: Tonight's Experiment: Making an old photo look new
Well, first things first.  I gotta getta home for myself.  Get a computer.  All that fun stuff.  I have to have a stable foundation from which to start from.  So I've been working on that above all else!

 

I just got denied an apartment based on some landlords discriminating against me because I brough my brother with me and they felt he was "too aggressive" all because he asked questions I didn't think of and was protective of me.  Bastards.  They acted all so nice and behind my back last night they were thinking crap about me.  Just know it.  Screw 'em.  My apartment hunt is frustrating.  That was the closest I got, but now I'm also wondering if it was fate -- good to let it happen before I moved in than for them to act like that after?  Who knows.  All I know is something has got to give!

 

Sorry for the tangent.  Those people stepped on my last nerve today.

Hope your day is better, Boo.

~Val

PUSSYPATTER on
Re: Tonight's Experiment: Making an old photo look new
Sorry to hear that Boo. Hey I want you to STOP using those 'victocrat' terms... like discrimination.

 

First off they are beneath you, second off those things can give you an entirely negative outlook on life and that ain't good.

 

They simply rejected you based on someone else's behavior. um... they didn't, just by chance, give you that rejection in writing... did they Boo?

 

Shit girl, if you call that a tangent you need a new dictionary.

 

Are you in school this year? 

Wendy

valentinaxxx on
Re: Tonight's Experiment: Making an old photo look new
Sorry, I meant tangent as a noun: going off topic, as in a digression.

They rejected me because of my blood -- my younger brother.

No, they didn't put it in writing.  They called me on the phone.  didn't even have the decency to tell it to my face.

I'm not in college this year, but I do have to go back one of these years to finish my degree.

PUSSYPATTER on
Re: Tonight's Experiment: Making an old photo look new
Well I don't know if it's a noun, verb or something else when I think about it it means something like having a fit, bitching, or rant Boo.

 

So it sounds to me like you need to bone up on your local laws regarding the recording of phone conversations and do whatever you have to do to be legal and record all of your phone calls.

 

I know that sucks but don't dwell on it, just reinforce that energy ball and toss it out into the universal mind again Boo. 

 

Wendy

Andreux on
Re: Tonight's Experiment: Making an old photo look new
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valentinaxxx on
Re: Tonight's Experiment: Making an old photo look new
Ooooh, thanks for the link!  I'm going to have fun looking through that one.

 
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