Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Photography workshop/Archive/May 2012

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Mangareva 2

 * fr:Fichier:Couvent.de.Rouru.JPG
 * fr:Fichier:Tombeau.du.Roi.JPG
 * fr:Fichier:Cathédrale.Saint-Michel.de.Rikitea.jpg

Article(s): Mangareva Request: Can someone transfer these images from the French wikipeida to the Wiki commons? Thanks. KAVEBEAR (talk) 10:43, 29 April 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s):

FYI, anyone can move files to Commons. See Moving files to the Commons and more specifically this. – JBarta (talk) 08:36, 30 April 2012 (UTC) =Resolved=

Distorted image
Regarding image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Red_Rice_House..jpg Whilst this image appears in the correct proportions when viewed in it's full resolution, It appears distorted in the other sizes (too wide), e.g. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Red_Rice_House..jpg/800px-Red_Rice_House..jpg Other images which were uploaded at the same time, appear perfectly ok; e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Rice_House._View_from_the_front.jpg Please. Can you correct it.

I had asked in the 'teahouse', and they answered: "I can see why the image is distorted as the original height to width ratio is 1.45 and all the rations shown are 1.33, but I don't know how to correct it. You might want to submit a request at Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Photography workshop explaining what the issue is and what you want doing to it."

Article(s): Red Rice Request: Please can you fix it? Andrewstimothy (talk) 07:43, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):


 * ✅ Fixed the problem by simply resaving the image. I have no idea what could have caused that behaviour, though. I also removed the watermark from it (please see WP:WATERMARK and upload watermarkless versions of your images, if possible). —Quibik (talk) 14:03, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Blond Ambition
Request: Please remove the watermarkLil&#39;Monster Heart (talk) 18:12, 22 April 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s):✅ Centpacrr (talk) 22:16, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Text on an image
Article(s): August Vollmer, Arguments for and against drug prohibition Request: Please remove the text. Peter Talk page 15:31, 27 April 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s):

✅ Took the easy way out.... I cropped it. Seems Ok. – JBarta (talk) 18:28, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Cornelius Cole
Article(s): Cornelius Cole Request: Oval crop... KAVEBEAR (talk) 00:08, 28 April 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s):

✅: Done as requested. PawełMM (talk) 09:19, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Mangareva
Article(s): Mangareva Request: Please leave original image alone and then crop individual of each of person with their heads and bodies, clean them a little, and make them black and white. The desired file names are above.. KAVEBEAR (talk) 05:06, 29 April 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s):


 * Could you add more rooms around the image?
 * ✅: PawełMM (talk) 10:33, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
 * It is possible to add more rooms around the image, but it will be blank. I don't see a reasonable cause to do that. PawełMM (talk) 10:33, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
 * The reason is that it looks better.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 10:40, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ I agree that it looks better with a little whitespace, and the reason is because in a thumbnail image the border should not 'touch' the image. It acts as a kind of mount. I also converted the images to grayscale and cleaned up the background. The oval introduced around the middle image looked a bit slapdash. nagualdesign (talk) 00:08, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 00:58, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Cornelius Cole
Article(s): Cornelius Cole Request: Clean the image. Sorry I don't have time to do it myself. Please do not crop. ;-) nagualdesign (talk) 00:41, 30 April 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s): ✅ Centpacrr (talk) 01:22, 30 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Nicely done. Thanks. nagualdesign (talk) 17:20, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Charlie Chaplin screenshot
Article(s): Charlie Chaplin, potentially Request: Just a general clean up of this image to improve the appearance as much as possible. I know it is terrible quality but it's the best I could get from this 98 year old film. Any improvements would be appreciated, cheers.  Lobo (talk) 19:57, 1 May 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion:

✅ - I uploaded a better version. Should be satisfactory now. And the quality of the first upload is not poor because the film is 98 years old. The quality is poor because of high compression. In other words, the culprit is modern technology and the modern notion that media is better served compressed into barely recognizable goo. – JBarta (talk) 21:21, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Please Help Restore My Family Picture
Request: Please help restore my family picture. I know it's a bit out of place to request such a thing, but it's my mom's family. My grandmother has passed away. Please help restore it. If possible, can you colorize it? Thank you! Dollmaster (talk) 09:19, 19 April 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s):


 * Hi :)
 * This is a photography workshop for Wikipedia. we cannot help you if the image is not uploaded here. If you would our help, please do that. :)Itzuvit (talk) 12:30, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Poster opinion:

I have uploaded the picture here. Please help restore it. If possible, can you colorize it? Thank you! Dollmaster (talk) 09:34, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):

There's an old saying... "garbage in... garbage out". It means if you start with garbage, the end result will be garbage. Why am I telling you this? Because the image you have supplied is garbage. It looks like you just snapped a photo of a photo. Half the image is full of reflection. If you're really serious about "restoring" the image, then get it professionally scanned... or in some other way upload a quality high resolution image. Make a little effort here. That way there's at least a chance of getting a decent result. In addition, personal photos of no apparent use and with no useful description have a way of getting deleted from Commons not to mention ignored around here. At the very least you could make the image potentially useful to this encyclopedia by adding information such as date, place, etc etc. I know, I'm a mean person... but somebody needed to tell you these things, and if you do them you might actually get some help. – JBarta (talk) 17:51, 24 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I tried do something, but... PawełMM (talk) 22:42, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Poster opinion(s):

@Jbarta - Thank you for your response. I don't have the 'quality high resolution image' of this garbage. Also, someone else snapped a photo of this garbage, not me. I don't have the original garbage. I'm just trying to get some help from wikipedia's graphic designers to restore my family's garbage the way it is. It's a very old garbage, no one knows its date. Well, thanks, everyone. I'll go now. Dollmaster (talk) 09:04, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Graphist opinion:

Oh stop. Not everything or everyone in life comes sugar-coated. – JBarta (talk) 23:33, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Poster opinion:

@Jbarta - Yup, not even you, Barta. Not even you. Dollmaster (talk) 09:12, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Lamborghini Aventador J
Article(s): Lamborghini Aventador Request: Would like smoother edges around the car and some denoisement, thanks in advance (the original version is linked in the file). Brand meister talk  22:07, 1 May 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s):

✅ – JBarta (talk) 09:20, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Walter Model
Article: Walter Model

Request: This is a crop of the picture at the Bundesarchive: http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/archives/barchpic/search/_1336228847/ Our picture is kinda blurry. Can anything be done? Either clean up the crop we have, or start fresh with the image from the Bundesarchive using today's technology? Thank you very much. Dianna (talk) 14:49, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):

If you can get hold of that 3872x2813 version that is mentioned, a better crop might be had. If and until then, what you have is about as good as it gets. – JBarta (talk) 17:41, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

"Found and uploaded better image (see above). Centpacrr (talk) 20:25, 5 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you! It is a clearer shot, and shows more of his face. -- Dianna (talk) 00:53, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Simple rotation
Article(s): St. Louis, Besancon, Historic District Request: Just a simple rotation to repair my inattentiveness when taking this picture, please. Nyttend (talk) 01:39, 8 May 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s):✅ Centpacrr (talk) 03:47, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Much better; thank you. Nyttend (talk) 04:12, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

2012 Kentucky Derby
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Article(s): 2012 Kentucky Derby Request: Upload a smaller version, and possibly rename. Thanks, Albacore (talk) 16:04, 6 May 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s):

The rename has been done. Size is fine IMO. – JBarta (talk) 05:14, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Paul Emmel
Article(s): Paul Emmel Request: If possible, please make it so that the face of the man in the background is less noticeable - something such as blurring or altering the focus, perhaps. Thanks! Delaywaves &bull;&#32; talk  02:50, 9 May 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s):

✅ - Hope that's acceptable. Though to be honest, the original looked fine to me. – JBarta (talk) 07:57, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Amazing, thanks! Delaywaves  &bull;&#32; talk  13:53, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Blond Ambition Images
Request: Please remove the watermark. Lil&#39;Monster Heart (talk) 01:24, 29 April 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s):

✅ —Quibik (talk) 08:07, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Oval crop
Article(s): Rimatara, Rurutu Request: Keeping original, oval crop a png version of image and clean up damages and blemishes on image... KAVEBEAR (talk) 02:14, 8 May 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s): Have you thought this through, Kavebear; Transparent PNG files are only necessary for infobox images, JPGs with a white background are fine for use in the article body. So, are these intended for infoboxes? nagualdesign (talk) 01:13, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
 * No, your right. I guess they don't need to be oval cropped. They just need to be cleaned up a little.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 01:46, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

✅ Also straightened, slightly cleaned and re-coloured. nagualdesign (talk) 04:04, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Theron Metcalf
Article(s): Theron Metcalf Request: Oval crop and make transparent... KAVEBEAR (talk) 22:07, 13 May 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s): ✅ I didn't make a transparent version yet as the article has no infobox. nagualdesign (talk) 04:11, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Haverhill Amtrak station
Article(s): Haverhill (Amtrak station) Request: The original image (transferred from Flickr) had a badly overexposed sky and under-exposed landscape. I made an HDR version using a lightened and a darkened version of the original. I love how it worked for the foreground, with the detail on the stone wall and the reflective car. But, the sky is now far too dark. Could someone take the sky and lighten it? Not quite as bright as the original, but realistic. If you can do it in GIMP and give instructions (so i could do it myself for other images) I'd be floored.

(Of course, if you think my edit sucks and want to work solely off the original, go for. Anything to make it look nicer.)Pi.1415926535 (talk) 06:16, 14 May 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion:

✅: Done as requested. PawełMM (talk) 07:11, 14 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Pi.1415926535 (talk) 08:27, 14 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Redid from scratch; adjusted gamma, repaired sky, rotated 1.7º CW and cropped. Centpacrr (talk) 10:26, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Took a shot at this myself. The others were a little unnatural looking IMO. – JBarta (talk) 14:26, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Existentialists
Article(s): Existentialism Request: Please make a collage: Kierkegaard and Dostoyevsky at the top and Nietzsche and Sartre at the bottom. Crop Sartre pic or find a better one in black and white. Thanks. GoP T C N 19:58, 14 May 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s): Made collage and uploaded to en.Wikipedia. If you care to you can expand the summary and then transfer the collage to Commons. Centpacrr (talk) 02:55, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Could you make four rectangular pictures and without the names? The collage is nice but I am not a fan of oval borders :P. Regards.-- GoP T C N 08:18, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * And Sartre should be last (if possible).-- GoP T C N 08:19, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I've reversed Sarte and Nietzsche left for right. (The individual images themselves have also been reversed so that both figures are also facing inwards.) If you want a different format, however, you'll need to create a new composite collage image file and upload it to a new file page. Centpacrr (talk) 10:46, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Just a comment... I'm not a big fan of reversing portraits. I realize it's done often, but that doesn't necessarily mean we should do it. – JBarta (talk) 14:39, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * The non-reversed version with Sartre and the left and Nietzsche on the right is still available in the file history. Centpacrr (talk) 23:55, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * That's all well and good, but the point is that the reversed version might be used in an article. To me, that's slightly unencyclopedic and a shade less than accurate. – JBarta (talk) 01:35, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
 * File deleted. Centpacrr (talk) 04:26, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
 * You couldn't simply redo the file without reversing the images? – JBarta (talk) 05:18, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
 * No (see above) so it's gone. Centpacrr (talk) 09:19, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Could someone create a simple collage without decorations and the like? Just two square pictures in each row. Thanks.-- GoP T C N 12:31, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ – JBarta (talk) 19:26, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Pierre Loti
Article(s): Pierre Loti Request: Clean up stains... KAVEBEAR (talk) 03:52, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):See note below. Centpacrr (talk) 05:03, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

✅ - Did a little cleanup and slight crop. – JBarta (talk) 14:51, 15 May 2012 (UTC)


 * KAVEBEAR... what, no thank you? Not even a wisp of gratitude? Do you think I do this for my health? No, I do it for praise and appreciation. If not a hearty thanks, could you at least squeak out a teensy little "ty"? Something? Anything? ;-) – JBarta (talk) 19:42, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Woops. Sorry and thank you! --KAVEBEAR (talk) 13:28, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
 * See note below. Centpacrr (talk) 05:03, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Pomare IV
Article(s): Tahitians,Pōmare IV Request: Request on image description... KAVEBEAR (talk) 03:52, 15 May 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s):See note below. Centpacrr (talk) 05:03, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

✅: Done as requested. PawełMM (talk) 15:55, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Johns Hopkins
Article(s): Johns Hopkins Request: Oval crop... KAVEBEAR (talk) 07:45, 16 May 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s):KAVEBEAR, with respect don't you think it's about time that you either acquire Photoshop or download GIMP (a suite of powerful and freely available open source software digital image editing tools) and learn how to use them so that you can start doing all these simple repetitive tasks yourself? Centpacrr (talk) 09:46, 16 May 2012 (UTC)


 * ✅: Done as requested. PawełMM (talk) 06:31, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 15:16, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Fred Tenney
Article(s): Fred Tenney Request: Crop the edges, maybe do something with the lighting and remove the red watermark below the "B" on his uniform. Albacore (talk) 01:40, 19 May 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s):✅ Centpacrr (talk) 03:37, 19 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Albacore (talk) 12:45, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Edwin Francis Jemison
Article(s): Request: Restoration (removal of dints, scratches, etc) Brand meister talk   01:14, 21 May 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s):✅ Centpacrr (talk) 02:17, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

JackOfAllTrades
Article(s): Jack Of All Trades Request: fix perspective, crop to front face only... Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 21:46, 11 May 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s): ✅, even though I cheated and got the front cover from IMDb. — ξ xplicit  22:37, 11 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Fantastic either way! How did the old one disappear from the history with nothing in the record?--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 14:59, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

File:Alyssa McClelland
Article(s): Alyssa McClelland Request: Please may a seperate crop be made from this image - suitable for an infobox. Can the colour on her face be adjusted as the flash has done its magic. Here is another photograph of her from the evening -  Rain  the 1  16:39, 22 May 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s):

Couscoussier
Article(s): Couscous Request: Straighten the subject of the image to remove photo tilt. Thanks. Earthdirt (talk) 15:07, 23 May 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s):

✅ - (though hard to tell just what was tilted) – JBarta (talk) 17:51, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Fred Tenney
Article(s): Fred Tenney Request: Crop to card, rotate slightly. Thanks, Albacore (talk) 02:49, 24 May 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s):

✅ - Not quite sure how you wanted it cropped, so I uploaded both ways. Pick the one you like. (And it didn't need rotating) – JBarta (talk) 04:56, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Oh, now I notice it's an LOC scan. You should have uploaded a bigger file. Oh well, I'm not going to do this twice. It will have to do. – JBarta (talk) 04:59, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Pictures
Request: Please remove watermark Lil&#39;Monster Heart (talk) 17:53, 9 May 2012 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s): ✅, not all by me (#2 was already done). --GianniG46 (talk) 16:11, 28 May 2012 (UTC)