This will interest, oh, no one in particular, most likely. But that never stops me. Besides, I've posted a cool link at the bottom to which you can skip immediately. Seriously, it's way cool.
Anyway, one of the amazing Christmas gifts that I lavished on my sister, mom and dad is a hack-job restoration of a photo taken of Terry (sister previously mentioned) and me when we were, uh, a lot younger. I guess, in that decade of yore, a photographer might actually come to one's home to take the pictures, even if one wasn't particularly famous. Which we weren't. So, this stranger and all his clunky equipment comes into our house and my sister is the only one who has the sense to freak out about it. Hence the concerned expression on her face (she's the smaller one, by the by). She's actually sitting on mom's lap (who is leaning 'way back so as not to show in the photo). It was the only way Terry would agree to be photographed.
So, one day a couple of years ago, I saw the picture in a frame at Mom's or Terry's and it was so faded that I knew that it would be gone for good if Something weren't done about it. So, in typical heroic fashion (ta-da! I will save the day!), I snapped it up, took it home and forgot about it for quite awhile. Finally, I decided that the planets were aligned in just the right way and I should work on it.
I have Photoshop and actually know how to work a few parts of it. So, I figured that if I scanned the picture in, I could push a few icons and it would magically restore itself. Who knew you had to actually know something about restoring pictures? So, after two solid days, countless help-file searches, quite a few websites and, finally, several crucial calls to my own personal Photoshop wizard, Dylan (who taught me how to love stamp-cloning), I got to within a reasonable range of acceptable quality. It's not professional, but good enough. Actually, now that I see it here, we look like Smurfs. The color is better as printed. Oh, well. See what you think (then don't tell me). Mostly I just want you to see how cute we were.
Here's the cool link, forwarded to me from Ruth. It's from last August. Make sure to read the particulars and hit "next" to see the other two photos. You're welcome!
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/45149,features,brussels-in-bloom
