Am 02.10.2005 um 19:37 schrieb mgang@pob.huji.ac.il:

Dear Users,
I am a new user to gimp and have a question regarding an old picture.

Welcome in the GIMP community!

It is an old picture of my great-grandfather. The quality of the picture is not
so good and his face is not so clear. Is there any way to make this picture
better with gimp?

Sure you can enhance the image with GIMP. But to give you an advise is pretty difficult without knowing what "problems" the image has. Is there any way you can provide this online at an webpage of your choice (please not as attachement to the list)? In general you can remove noise, add sharpness, restore colors and so on.

As I am new to the are of image processing I hope that it is not a too simple
question.

No its not - keep asking. By the way please note, that sharpening should be the very last step in the chain of enhancements.

Thanks in Advance,
Michael

Greetings, lexA

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Am 02.10.2005 um 19:37 schrieb mgang@pob.huji.ac.il:

Thanks in Advance,
Michael

I forgot something important: have a look at the GIMP tutorial page: http://gimp.org/tutorials/index.html#Photo There are lots of step by step examples which might give you some inspiration what you can do with GIMP to enhance your photo.

Greetings, lexA

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On 10/2/05, mgang@pob.huji.ac.il wrote:

I am a new user to gimp and have a question regarding an old picture.

Welcome!

It is an old picture of my great-grandfather. The quality of the picture is not so good and his face is not so clear. Is there any way to make this picture better with gimp?

I believe there are a great many ways of accomplishing this; various filters and settings have interesting effects that you might want to play around with. The kinds of improvements necessary would be helpful. Finally, you may wish to note that there are also various other ways of 'correcting' pictures; IIRC, Google's Picasa (for Windows) had a pretty simple interface if you simply need really basic photo correction.

As I am new to the are of image processing I hope that it is not a too simple question.

Nonsense; so long as a question is asked politely and with proper spelling and grammar, there should be almost no such thing as too simple of a question.

--
~Mike
- Just my two cents
- No man is an island, and no man is unable.

On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 08:37:37PM +0300, mgang@pob.huji.ac.il wrote:

I am a new user to gimp and have a question regarding an old picture. It is an old picture of my great-grandfather. The quality of the picture is not so good and his face is not so clear. Is there any way to make this picture better with gimp?

for this particular problem, i suggest playing with the levels tool. i wrote about the tool here:
http://carol.gimp.org/gimp2/photography/clarity/

i have a question, is the photograph in good condition, just faded with age? i ask because repairs can be made with the clone tool can be invaluable for this sort of repair work. practice helps to be able to use it -- select a brush and ctl-click on a similar portion of the image then use the brush with the clone tool to cover over repairs. you can even do this on another layer so that you always have the original easily within view. there are other things the clone tool can do, like cover with different percentages of transparency. each image needs different types of repair and there is no set way to fix all images.

be sure to work on a copy and don't be afraid to use the layers.

it sounds like the photograph is in good condition, just faded with age. the levels tool can be used to make those old color photographs that acquired the redish cast over time (i think no one knew this would happen when they first started to take color photographs here in the united states). near the upper portion of the levels dialog is a radio menu that by default works on the Values Levels, but you can opt to work on Red, Green or Blue (and others) if some color correction is needed.

As I am new to the are of image processing I hope that it is not a too simple question.

this actually is one of the more interesting questions i have seen in a while. thank you for asking it.

carol