Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Photography workshop/Archive/Jan 2017

Normalizing lighting, removing reflections and excessive shadows

 * Article(s):
 * Music of Latvia, Kokle, Wind instrument, Aerophone, String instrument


 * Request:
 * I took the pictures in a museum where the objects were behind a glass and with various lights shining from different angles, so could you please normalizing the lighting by removing the light reflections and brightening the darker areas of excessive shadows etc. --Turaids (talk) 08:37, 16 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Graphist opinion(s):

Trim white space

 * Article(s):
 * Army Sergeant Major


 * Request:
 * Could someone please trim the white/empty space at the top and bottom of this image? Thanks -- Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 14:00, 23 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Graphist opinion(s):

✅, SVG is now nominally 75 × 75 pixels. --AntiCompositeNumber (Leave a message) 16:25, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 18:35, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Crop images

 * Article(s):
 * Michael Frendo, List of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Malta, etc


 * Request:
 * Please, create crop images of Michael Frendo and Francis Zammit Dimech out of this pics. -- Sundostund (talk) 20:36, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

✅ PawełMM (talk) 07:38, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):
 * Thanks a lot! --Sundostund (talk) 19:30, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Talaat Pasha

 * Article(s):
 * Talaat Pasha


 * Request:
 * Please crop the image and improve its quality if possible. And please upload it as a new file. -- Ե րևանցի  talk  13:01, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

✅ PawełMM (talk) 13:05, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):
 * Thanks! -- Ե րևանցի talk  16:55, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Ahmad al-Ghashmi

 * Article(s):
 * Ahmad al-Ghashmi


 * Request:
 * Hi, could you made a photo of Ahmad al-Ghashmi, who is in the right of the photo ? Regards. -- Panam2014 (talk) 13:07, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

✅ PawełMM (talk) 05:53, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):
 * Thank you. --Panam2014 (talk) 14:37, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Agave nectar

 * Article(s):
 * Agave nectar


 * Request:
 * please remove logo and trim to bottle… -- Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 15:08, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

✅ PawełMM (talk) 18:32, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):


 * Thank you so much! Happy new year!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 04:33, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

dive bar

 * Article(s):
 * dive bar


 * Request:
 * please trim away excess sky top and right… -- Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 03:11, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

✅ PawełMM (talk) 07:44, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):


 * Thank you!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 13:12, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Crop images

 * Article(s):
 * Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Ali Mohammed Ghedi, Sa'dun Hammadi, Đuro Salaj, etc


 * Request:
 * Please, create crop images of Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Ali Mohammed Ghedi, Sa'dun Hammadi, Đuro Salaj and Filip Filipović out of this pics. -- Sundostund (talk) 19:46, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

✅ PawełMM (talk) 18:21, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):
 * Thanks a lot! --Sundostund (talk) 19:43, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
 * The Đuro Salaj and Filip Filipović image had some heavy moiré patterns, so I went ahead and cleaned it and the cropped images up as well. —Quibik (talk) 12:47, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Quibik. I hope the new year finds you well. Great work as always. I'd love to see exactly how you do these. Next time you do one would you mind uploading the FFT version of the image after editing but before reversing the filter so that I can see the size of the brush you use and what have you? (Then just overwrite it with the finished file.)  nagual  design   16:38, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi nagualdesign. Happy new year to you, too! Straight up editing the FFT-transformed image does not give good results in images like this one, where the wavelength of the moire is quite large and the moire patterns are mixed into the image's details. You have to extract the relevant part of the spectrum as much as possible first. A basic approach is to apply a high-pass filter to the image (for example, apply Gaussian blur to a duplicate layer, then grain-extract it from the original). I used to do that for a long time but only quite recently I discovered that bilateral filtering instead of a Gaussian blur for the high-pass filtering gives some amazingly good results (check out this and this, for example). I'm surprised every single time at how well it works, really. The key difference is that unlike the Gaussian blur, the bilateral filter does a good job of preserving edges in the image. This is great since sharp edges map to a wide range of frequencies in the image spectrum and are always strongly affected by any FFT filtering, so we want to avoid them as much as possible.
 * This is much easier to understand visually, so I took screencaps of the process I typically use. The typical steps are (1) crop unnecessary borders that needlessly distort the spectrum image; (2) Do a first pass at FFT filtering to remove high-frequency noise that does not affect the image details; (3) grain extract bilateral-filtered image from the main one; (4) do FFT filtering on that and grain merge it back; (5) if necessary (not in this case), do bilateral filtering on this cleaner image and repeat steps 3–4; (6) do some final FFT filtering on the grain-merged cleaner image; (7) if necessary (again, not in this case), add alpha channels to layers and erase parts of the cleaned-up image that were better in the original or intermediate versions; (8) flatten and save. —Quibik (talk) 00:13, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Those examples really are amazingly good! (And the waifu2x algorithm is pretty amazing too!) I can't thank you enough. That really was a masterclass in FFT filtering. I get what you are saying completely, and although the screencaps are a little confusing at the moment, it's great to see the actual steps involved. I might just copy/paste this onto my talk page for future reference. Thanks again! Kind regards,  nagual  design   03:51, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Tadeusz Kościuszko

 * Article(s):
 * Tadeusz Kościuszko


 * Request:
 * Please remove the cord that unfortunately was lying in front of the bed on the floor in images 1 and 2. Feel free to load over the original one. The third image I would like to deskew the image, remove glare of glass, correct colours, etc. Feel free to keep inner golden frame. Thank you. -- Gryffindor (talk) 16:18, 22 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Graphist opinion(s):
 * The 3rd image is ✅ -- Offnfopt (talk) 03:20, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
 * The 2nd image is ✅ PawełMM (talk) 19:52, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
 * The 1st image is ✅
 * Would you please try to add the inner golden frame to it? Gryffindor (talk) 08:59, 23 November 2016 (UTC) ✅ PawełMM (talk) 18:26, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Is this request completed? If so, please add  to the top of the request. Thanks, --AntiCompositeNumber (Leave a message) 02:14, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Beyazit Hnchakian Gallows

 * Article(s):
 * The 20 Hunchakian gallows


 * Request:
 * 1) Remove the watermarks please.
 * 2) Do all the necessary touch-ups needed (i.e. get rid of the small white dots, fix the contrast perhaps, whatever you think would make it look better)
 * 1) Do all the necessary touch-ups needed (i.e. get rid of the small white dots, fix the contrast perhaps, whatever you think would make it look better)

Thanks in advance, Étienne Dolet (talk) 04:00, 20 December 2016 (UTC) ✅ PawełMM (talk) 08:53, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):

Crop and clean

 * Article(s):
 * William Punohu White


 * Request:
 * Please clean up the background of this image, remove the letters that are showing through from the other side of the paper and crop away the border minimally. Thanks. -- KAVEBEAR (talk) 01:21, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

✅ PawełMM (talk) 09:00, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):
 * There are still some marks here and there, especially at the upper right.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 23:57, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Claered as requested. PawełMM (talk) 23:20, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Deleting background from Sutton Hoo helmet

 * Article(s):
 * Sutton Hoo helmet


 * Request:
 * Would someone please edit out the background, so that it is either transparent or white? Something in line with this photo would be fantastic. Please also delete the background as it shows through between the cheek guards and neck guard. The background showing through the eyes might look better simply blacked out (as in the linked example), but whatever you think is best. Thank you! -- Usernameunique (talk) 11:27, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

✅ PawełMM (talk) 17:54, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):

George W. Macfarlane

 * Article(s):
 * George W. Macfarlane


 * Request:
 * Please make the upper edges the same color as the background and clean up minor black blotches here and there. Upload over current file.- KAVEBEAR (talk) 20:50, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

✅ PawełMM (talk) 17:27, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):

landres in ww1

 * Article(s):
 * Landres -- will be adding several images when i get to it (mostly from wp/fr article); this one isn't for lede, but "history of" as well as "in art".


 * Request:rotate slighty to proper vertical orientation of postcard & crop
 * Details of your request go here… -- please leave the edges of the card visible, to convey a sense of the object as a postcard-drawing (i.e.: leave a small margin around the edges); see finished examples of simillar on my userpage (uploads).  don't think the colour or contrast needs tweaking; but let's see how it looks after it's been trimmed & rotated? (please retain high-resolution; this is the original scan image of the artifact)

✅ PawełMM (talk) 07:40, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):
 * lovely! won't have time to futz around with image layouts (& the infobox) for "landres" until later tonight @ least; but thank-you!  :)  Lx 121 (talk) 16:44, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
 * done; see Landres & ty muchly. :) Lx 121 (talk) 04:47, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

Political Cartoon

 * Article(s):
 * King Kalākaua's world tour


 * Request:
 * Please straighten and crop away some of the excessive border, but still retain enough of the border for the caption and title "The Wasp" at the top and equal spaces on the left and right margins. Also most importantly enhance and clean so the colors stand out more because currently it looks dull. -- KAVEBEAR (talk) 03:21, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

✅ PawełMM (talk) 08:26, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):

Newspaper illustration

 * Article(s):
 * 


 * Request:
 * Please clean these images up. They need some touch up to clean up any blemishes, print bleeding through from the other side of the page and also any crease marks. Thanks -- KAVEBEAR (talk) 02:52, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

✅ PawełMM (talk) 18:13, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):

Oval crop

 * Article(s):
 * King Kalākaua's world tour


 * Request:
 * Please perform an oval crop. Don't create any derivates. -- KAVEBEAR (talk) 21:21, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

✅ PawełMM (talk) 23:22, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):

Cumberland Column

 * Article(s):
 * Birr, County Offaly


 * Request:
 * Okay, could someone perhaps try and upload the image of the Cumberland Column (pre-1915) in Birr, Ireland, found at https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/23380992132/in/photostream/, as a JPG file. I hope all the relevant information is there. (Apologies, I don't have enough experience of uploading photographs to do it myself). User:Snow Lion Fenian


 * Graphist opinion(s):

Loaded by Jasonanaggie

George II Statue, Dublin

 * Article(s):
 * St Stephen's Green, List of public art in Dublin


 * Request:
 * Alright, if possible, could someone please create a JPG File of the postcard photo found at http://www.dublincity.ie/image/libraries/ms12-king-george, showing the statue of George II that stood from 1758 to 1937 in Dublin. Just hope it fits the right criteria. Thanks. User:Snow Lion Fenian

✅ PawełMM (talk) 09:16, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):
 * Thanks, I appreciate it. Though while we're here, perhaps you could also remove the white-grey bordering around the photo, in order to make it look less like a postcard? User:Snow Lion Fenian
 * Done as requested. PawełMM (talk) 10:29, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks again. User:Snow Lion Fenian

Gough Monument, Phoenix Park

 * Article(s):
 * List of public art in Dublin, Phoenix Park, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough


 * Request:
 * Alright, could someone please try and upload the photo of the former equestrian statue of the Gough Monument, which stood in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, from 1880 to 1957, found on the page https://comeheretome.com/2012/01/24/now-he-sits-in-chillingham-castle/ (third photo down) as a JPG file. Much appreciated. User:Snow Lion Fenian

✅ PawełMM (talk) 13:35, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):

Griffith-Collins Cenotaph, Leinster House

 * Article(s):
 * List of public art in Dublin


 * Request:
 * Could someone please, if possible, upload the photograph of the former Griffith-Collins Cenotaph, which stood on Leinster Lawn from 1923-1939, found at http://contentdm.warwick.ac.uk/cdm/ref/collection/easter/id/144. Thanks. User:Snow Lion Fenian

✅ PawełMM (talk) 12:48, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):

Carlisle Statue, Phoenix Park

 * Article(s):
 * List of public art in Dublin, George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle


 * Request:
 * Alright, could someone please try and create a JPG image of the photograph of the former statue of George Howard, Earl of Carlisle, which stood from 1870 to 1958 in the the Phoenix Park, Dublin, found at https://comeheretome.com/2012/04/25/statues-of-dublin-carlisle-statue-phoenix-park/ (third image down). Thanks.

User:Snow Lion Fenian ✅ PawełMM (talk) 13:46, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):

Jiří Navrátil

 * Article(s):
 * Jiří Navrátil


 * Request:
 * please trim excess space above lion in background… -- Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 07:34, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

✅ PawełMM (talk) 08:07, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):


 * Thank you so much!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 12:30, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Matsuzakaya

 * Article(s):
 * Matsuzakaya


 * Request:
 * Please de-skew, straighten and enhance images. You can load over the original image. Thank you. -- Gryffindor (talk) 20:52, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

✅ PawełMM (talk) 09:45, 19 January 2017 (UTC)}
 * Graphist opinion(s):

Background color
File:Home-page-chart-infographic.png


 * Draft:
 * User:QuackGuru/Sand3


 * Request:
 * The image needs a background color other than white in order to be able to show the text. QuackGuru  ( talk ) 06:16, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

✅ Colors inverted to visible. PawełMM (talk) 11:15, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):
 * Thanks! QuackGuru  ( talk ) 17:30, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Tony Blair

 * Article(s):
 * Tony Blair


 * Request:
 * Hello. Could somebody please crop the photo above to focus on Tony Blair, i.e. as a full-face portrait? Thank-you.--Nev&eacute;–selbert 23:04, 21 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Graphist opinion(s):

✅ I tried my best to satisfy the Rule of Third. ThiruN (talk) 16:29, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank-you for the effort, but that wasn't how I wanted it done. I think I'm going to seek some help with this elsewhere.--Nev&eacute;–selbert 20:41, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
 * You can use CropTool to crop the image yourself. You should upload the result as a separate file, per the guidance at c:COM:CROP. --AntiCompositeNumber (Leave a message) 20:09, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Please, could you see commons. PawełMM (talk) 07:43, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Grand Guignol

 * Article(s):
 * Grand Guignol


 * Request:
 * please create png no frame to focus on poster… -- Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 15:09, 13 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Graphist opinion(s):

✅ and added to the article. The original image will have to be deleted because it is non-free and orphaned. --AntiCompositeNumber (Leave a message) 03:57, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 11:41, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Abebe Bikila in Amsterdam in 1968

 * Article(s):
 * Abebe Bikila


 * Request:
 * Please clean up image. Dust through-out, spots on his right shoulder, anything that can be done with looming shadow. &mdash; አቤል ዳዊት?(Janweh64) (talk) 09:39, 18 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Graphist opinion(s): ✅ Restored, flash shadow removed, agma, cropped (new file) Centpacrr (talk) 8:20 am, January 19, 2017 (UTC−5)

Nagoya Castle

 * Article(s):
 * Nagoya Castle


 * Request:
 * Please de-skew, straighten and enhance images. Feel free to load over the original image and not create a new file, thank you. -- Gryffindor (talk) 20:50, 18 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Graphist opinion(s):

✅ PawełMM (talk) 12:25, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
 * The last one, there is a curve that can still be seen on the top. Without cropping, could you please try to de-skew again? Thank you. Gryffindor (talk) 07:39, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
 * #8 redone (cropped a little). PawełMM (talk) 21:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Trim a semi-circle

 * Article(s):
 * Antonio Fantuzzi, & DYK


 * Request:
 * A trimmed semi-circular lunette print apparently photographed on an oak table. Please trim to the (not quite regular) print area. Johnbod (talk) 19:59, 21 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Graphist opinion(s):
 * ✅ - Regards, Fallschirmjäger &#9993; 02:02, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Many thanks, User:Fallschirmjäger! Johnbod (talk) 04:38, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Anglo-Saxon helmets
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 * Article(s):
 * Sutton Hoo helmet


 * Request:
 * Please remove the random white background gunk in the images so that the background is pure white and/or transparent in the first (helmet crest), and pure white in the second (helmet crest). Thank you! -- Usernameunique (talk) 10:30, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

✅ PawełMM (talk) 11:01, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):
 * Comment: Thanks ! Three requests, if possible. First, could you add back a slight border to the helmet crest image? I had 50 extra pixels on each side before, which helps prevent it from directly abutting the border in the thumbnail (as it does currently: Sutton_Hoo_helmet). Second, some of the transparency crept into the image itself (notably on the face/eyebrows piece), where it should actually be white. Finally, for some reason the other image (helmet fragments) isn't showing up as a thumbnail. The file name is "Sutton Hoo helmet - design 3 fragments.png" and you can see it in use here: Sutton_Hoo_helmet. Could you please replace the current gunky background with one of pure white? Thanks again for your help! --Usernameunique (talk) 12:26, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Redone as requested. PawełMM (talk) 15:25, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you! --Usernameunique (talk) 18:52, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Britannia, detail from a 1931 five pound note

 * Article(s):
 * Operation Bernhard


 * Request:
 * Could this image be cleaned up, with the extraneous lines outside the shield scrolls removed? MAny thanks, The Bounder (talk) 09:29, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
 * PawełMM, that's excellent; thank you very much. All the best, The Bounder (talk) 18:25, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

✅ PawełMM (talk) 16:08, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):

Sutton Hoo helmet fragments

 * Article(s):
 * Sutton Hoo helmet


 * Request:
 * Please replace the uneven white background (caused by scanning) with a pure white background. Thank you! -- Usernameunique (talk) 04:44, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

✅ PawełMM (talk) 07:48, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Graphist opinion(s):
 * Comment: That looks great, thanks! --Usernameunique (talk) 08:35, 26 January 2017 (UTC)