Cultural partnerships/Digital image restorations: Difference between revisions

From Wikimedia UK
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Introduction; additional example (based on an email by Durova to foundation-l, 30 March 2009)
+ attribution
Line 8: Line 8:
| style="width: 50%; text-align: center;" | [[File:Dresden photochrom.jpg|250px]] || style="width: 50%; text-align: center;" | [[File:Dresden photochrom2.jpg|250px]]
| style="width: 50%; text-align: center;" | [[File:Dresden photochrom.jpg|250px]] || style="width: 50%; text-align: center;" | [[File:Dresden photochrom2.jpg|250px]]
|-
|-
| colspan=2 | Altstadt (old city), [[:wikipedia:Dresden|Dresden]]. View from the War Ministry. This restoration was done in thanks to the University of Dresden library for their generous promise to donate a quarter million images directly to Wikimedia Commons. Left: Original version. Right: Restored version. Cropped, dirt and printer's mark removed, uneven ink application corrected, histogram adjusted and colors balanced. Selective denoising in sky. Featured picture on the English Wikipedia.
| colspan=2 | Altstadt (old city), [[:wikipedia:Dresden|Dresden]]. View from the War Ministry. This restoration was done in thanks to the University of Dresden library for their generous promise to donate a quarter million images directly to Wikimedia Commons. Left: Original version. Right: Restored version. Cropped, dirt and printer's mark removed, uneven ink application corrected, histogram adjusted and colors balanced. Selective denoising in sky.
Image from the Library of Congress. Restoration by [[:wikipedia:User:Durova|Durova]]. Featured picture on the English Wikipedia.
|}
|}


Line 15: Line 16:
| style="width: 50%; text-align: center;" | [[File:Camera_obscura_unrestored.jpg|250px]] || style="width: 50%; text-align: center;" | [[File:Camera_obscura2.jpg|250px]]
| style="width: 50%; text-align: center;" | [[File:Camera_obscura_unrestored.jpg|250px]] || style="width: 50%; text-align: center;" | [[File:Camera_obscura2.jpg|250px]]
|-
|-
| colspan=2 | Illustration of a [[:wikipedia:Camera obscura|camera obscura]] from a 17th century "Sketchbook on military art, including geometry, fortifications, artillery, mechanics, and pyrotechnics". Left: before digital restoration. Right: After restoration. The file was rotated and cropped; stains, dirt, and ink bleed were removed; the color was balanced and the histogram adjusted. Featured image on the English Wikipedia.
| colspan=2 | Illustration of a [[:wikipedia:Camera obscura|camera obscura]] from a 17th century "Sketchbook on military art, including geometry, fortifications, artillery, mechanics, and pyrotechnics". Left: before digital restoration. Right: After restoration. The file was rotated and cropped; stains, dirt, and ink bleed were removed; the color was balanced and the histogram adjusted.
Image from the Library of Congress. Restoration by [[:wikipedia:User:Durova|Durova]]. Featured picture on the English Wikipedia.
|}
|}



Revision as of 12:24, 29 August 2009

Cultural partnerships

Content partnershipsDigital image restorationsJoint events

The Wikimedia movement has a growing pool of volunteer editors who will do high quality restorations of historic photographs, lithographs, etc. as a courtesy for institutions who release bulk material to Wikimedia under a free license. Examples of some of these restorations are below.

Examples

Altstadt (old city), Dresden. View from the War Ministry. This restoration was done in thanks to the University of Dresden library for their generous promise to donate a quarter million images directly to Wikimedia Commons. Left: Original version. Right: Restored version. Cropped, dirt and printer's mark removed, uneven ink application corrected, histogram adjusted and colors balanced. Selective denoising in sky.

Image from the Library of Congress. Restoration by Durova. Featured picture on the English Wikipedia.

Illustration of a camera obscura from a 17th century "Sketchbook on military art, including geometry, fortifications, artillery, mechanics, and pyrotechnics". Left: before digital restoration. Right: After restoration. The file was rotated and cropped; stains, dirt, and ink bleed were removed; the color was balanced and the histogram adjusted.

Image from the Library of Congress. Restoration by Durova. Featured picture on the English Wikipedia.