Software Program For Damaged Pictures

Hi

Many of the modern photo editing applications allow the sort of tools Photoshop has for repairing pictures and while this is a link to a photoshop guide it will do well with aiding you with repairing your pics with most good graphic/picture tools, and GIMP is good and similar to Photoshop

http://www.canadiannaturephotographer.com/repair_oldimages.html

Link saves me typing up a lot of info as this topic is something I used and still do, but I'm lucky to have Photoshop CS6 and Lightroom which help with their filters and tools.

Microsoft Photo Gallery can do some quick edits and maybe a quick fix for you http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-live/photo-gallery#photogallery=overview

 

Hey katkat, how did you get on with this, me just revisiting older threads and checking up?

 

Hi katkat

Not knowing how bad the images where to start with is difficult to judge what you need to do, but if you want I could have a look at 1 general one that's of the redness you mention and try some techniques on it and gain some steps for you to follow.

Now a bit of my background for you, I trained as a graphic designer in art school, ended up in photography and worked for Kodak for many years in digital imaging, then dabbled in computing at Kodak and gained an MVP award from Microsoft for testing of Windows and other software (currently 7 years awarded this), now diversified career into medical research and imaging for ophthalmology and work on studies for ARMD, Diabetes and Malarial Retinopathy, both clinical with patients and research with scientists and clinicians, so have a lot of experience with imaging.

I can Private message you with my personal email address so you don't think I'm a weirdass!! I'm willing to try and see if I can come up with a set of instructions for you to help clean up your pics if you want, I will not be offended at all if you say no, as its fair point.

 

No probs and I have returned the image via email to you with what I can only think of is the best route to trying to recover the images more so they can be at least viewed and look OK and not that nasty red colour.

In the email I have sent some guides to the steps I took and picked the easiest ones I could with easy-ish steps.

 

Hi Kat

They will be ok on CD for a fair few years BUT they do degrade over time, so yes moving to USB pen is good but you can also use Skydrive (now called OneDrive but not changed until the next round of Windows updates) to store your pics and files online in the "cloud" as its secure and accessible on any device with internet access.

Its built into Windows 8 and you can see it in Windows Explorer as a drive branch so just like dropping files into a folder.

I tend to have multiple copies of important docs, pics etc and online "cloud" , USB pen, old HDDs and my Windows server 2012 R2 box has backups of my PCs data folders, but the latter is overkill but its a pet project so I'm up to speed when the IT bods in work try to blindside us....

So memories are critical data so upshot is save in a few places and online is good an din OneDrive its good as you have one of the worlds biggest companies dealing with the maintenance of the servers and security of data.


I may also try a few other things on the pic you sent when I'm back in work next week as we may have something to clean up the image, as we do work on image quality for medial images and the ones I deal with are retina pictures so are predominantly red, just cannot remember all of the projects our geeks are working on,

Do please let me know how you get on and if I can help more please you have my email address.

 

Not forgotten this, still chatting to the science folks in the uni in work yesterday on imaging projects they are working on that "may" aid in image recovery, should gain a in-house app next week I hope that I can run and see if it will fix the image better, I don't think it will as the sample you sent is really too far one colour as in red, and b&w is the better option so far but I will see.