Hi here is the info I mention in the video!: Topaz Gigapixel AI Dictionary Topaz Gigapixel AI: Software that uses AI to upscale and enhance image quality. AI Model: Refers to the specific model designed to enhance images in particular ways. Gigapixel AI uses different models tailored for specific types of images or desired outcomes. For instance, there might be a model optimized for architectural photos and another generally low-resolution images. Resize Mode (Upscale Factor): How much the software will enlarge or upscale the image. The "Upscale Factor" is the multiplier for this enlargement. For example, a 2x upscale factor will double the image's dimensions, while a 4x factor will quadruple them. Gigapixel AI doesn't just enlarge the image; it uses its AI to intelligently fill in lost or pixelated details. Face Recovery: A specialized feature that focuses on enhancing facial details in photos using AI, especially beneficial for older or low-res images. Export: The process of saving your edited image in a specific format to use elsewhere. Adobe Photoshop Dictionary Photoshop: A Photo Editing Software used by professionals and hobbyists alike for a wide range of image manipulation tasks. Perspective Warp: Used to adjust the perspective of a particular part of your image. It's especially useful for aligning images taken from an angle to appear as if they were taken straight on. Crop Tool: Allows you to trim, scale, and straighten your images. Fill: A command that allows you to fill a selected area with a specific color, pattern, or content-aware data. It can be used to quickly change the background or to replace a selected area with a uniform color or pattern. Here we used transparent as we only needed the area which is cropped. Delete Cropped Pixels: When using the Crop Tool, if "Delete Cropped Pixels" is checked, any pixels that are outside the new cropped area will be permanently deleted from the image. If it's unchecked, the cropped pixels are merely hidden and can be recovered if you decide to adjust the crop later. Layers: Think of these as transparent sheets stacked on top of each other. You can edit one layer without affecting the others. This is useful as you can make changes without permanently altering the original photo. Spot Healing: Click on a small imperfection, like a speck or scratch, and Photoshop tries to automatically fix it for you. Healing Brush Tool: This tool lets you fix imperfections. You pick a good part of the photo (source point) and then "paint" over a damaged area. This tool blends the texture from the source point with the lighting and color of the target area. Clone Stamp Tool: This tool lets you copy a part of the photo and "stamp" it onto another part. It's useful for replacing missing or damaged sections with similar-looking areas from the same photo. This does not blend as the Healing Brush does. Sample All Layers: When using certain tools, turning this on will allow the tool to consider and pull information from all visible layers, rather than just the currently active layer. This is useful when you're working on a separate layer but want to reference the entire image. We also used Current and Below in this video. Camera Raw Filter: This is a powerful tool that lets you adjust and enhance photos as if you were tweaking settings on a camera after the photo was taken. For restoration, it can help in adjusting exposure, clarity, and other aspects to bring life back to old or faded photos. Film Grain: This refers to the visible granules or speckles that can be seen in analog photographs. For restoration, you might want to add some grain to make a restored area match the rest of the photo or if the grain has been reduced by other software. Brush Hardness: Think of this as the edge of your digital brush. A brush with 100% hardness has a solid, sharp edge, while a brush with 0% hardness has a soft, feathered edge. For restoration, a softer brush can help blend edits more seamlessly, while a harder brush might be used for precise corrections. Brush Size: Determines the brush's size. Adjust for detailed work or covering large areas. Areas we didn’t get a chance to cover: Content-Aware Fill: If you have a missing or damaged part in a photo, you can select it and let Photoshop automatically fill it in by guessing what should be there based on the surrounding areas. Patch Tool: You can select a damaged area and then drag it to a good area to replace it. It blends the good area over the damaged one. Lasso Tools: These are selection tools that let you outline specific areas of a photo. Useful for isolating areas you want to edit or protect. Opacity: Determines how transparent a layer or tool effect is. Photo Restoration Beta: Found under Filters, then Neural Filters.
I love this. I used to use some early programs and earlier Adobe Photoshop pro abt 15 years ago+. Id enlarge the area and do airbrush. I took a picture of my Great Grandfather and then got a photo of my brother and merged my brother's face on it and layered the scratches over his face to match the old photo and then emailed him telling him I'd received a photo of our Great Grandfather and you look exactly like him. He laughed. I thought I did a good job. At the end of the semester of my photography class critique when I put my photos out, the class went "uh, Ansel Adams". What a compliment. I could just get lost in photography and music and horses and painting.... I have a several albums of photos to touch up.
Thanks for watching! Have fun restoring your photo albums. There are lots of new tools in the newest Photoshop. What a great idea to merge the image of your Great Grandfather and brother 😀
@@HopwoodXIV I was so excited and had so much fun in the darkroom, stayed in it for hours that at first I didn't pay much attention to things like lint on lenses. Everyone in the class made fun of me for my lack of that detail. Lol. For a Student Advertising Competition, I turned a bunch of photos & illustrations in, matted then and titled them. One was a rose with the lint all on it and I just titled it 'Dusty Rose'. lol. During the awards ceremony I won a 1st place for another Photo I did. Then in the illustration category they said that this had never happened before. This person has tied themself for 1st place. I had 2 Watercolors that won't first place. Lol They weren't laughing anymore. I had paid so much attention to the subject and learning, experimenting that by the end of the color photography class the kids came to me for help. I was finished way before the end of that semester. The new software, digital quality and A.I. are just amazing now.
@@HopwoodXIV I tried to merge my Great Grandfather's face on my brother's photo and it did not work. He looked like Frankenstein. Lol. My brother's photo I took the image from was a kickboxing championship photo holding a trophy, he was in his 40's. It just didn't carry over. Ha. My brother was a kickboxing dentist. 🦷
@@HopwoodXIV Do you have your family tree online? I'm a direct descendent of William Shakespeare's brother, and a direct descendent of George Washington's Grandfather Ball. According to A I , common ancestors with Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Diana, Marie Antoinette, king Henry 1st of France & Queen Anne of Kiev, Vladimir the Wise & St Anna (King Olaf of Sweden's daughter-Olafsdotter), Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Zachery Taylor, Benjamin Harrison, William Henry Harrison, William Howard Taft, Andrew Jackson, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, James K. Polk, Rutherford B Hayes, Franklin Pierce, Millard Fillmore (he looks like Alec Baldwin), Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Warren G Harding, Herbert Hoover, LBJ, Nixon, Harry Truman, Ulysses S Grant, Winston Churchill, James Garfield, Thomas Edison, John Browning, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry David Thoreau, Jane Austen, Robert Reid Stevenson, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, T.S. Elliot, Agatha Christie, Cecile B. DeMille, Kathryn Hepburn, John Wayne, Buffalo Bill, Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, Lucille Ball, Shirley Temple, Walt Disney, Marilyn Monroe, Buster Keaton, Anne Franklin, Florence Nightingale, Amelia Earhart, Thomas Edison, Adam Smith, Eli Whitney, Samuel Morse, Robert Peary, Charles Lindbergh, Wilbur & Orville Wright, Filo T. Farnsworth, William Clayton, John Dunlop, Robert Englebretsen. 🤷🏻♀️ We'll see about all that. Lol
Hey Hopwood, thanks for this, this software is frighteningly good - like photo Botox! This would be a really worthwhile project for your creative volunteers, digitising these images makes them accessible to all at the click of a button without having to wade through dusty boxes (although I do like wading through dusty boxes!). Keep up the good work ❤🥰
Repairing, restoring and enhancing photos is a passion of mine. You covered many important points: It is vital to save originals and digital originals; using layers saves so much time in editing; global repairs are generally excessive (you mentioned lines) and using the more time consuming brushes usually wind up more accurate. One thing you didn't mention that is good to start doing asap naming the photos in a consistent and searchable manner. I include (at a minimum) date, location and subject in the file name of my photos. The more photos you work on the more you will appreciate having a uniform system for storage and retrieval.
Utterly amazing Hopwood. I will definitely refer to this as I have many old photos of family from 1800's ~ 1844 oldest ~ my great aunt meticulously kept scrapbbooks of family old farms homes people ~ beautifully stored with black points mounting & acid free paper safe 'glue' ~ most photos are from my father's side which she so carefully 'catalogued' ~ more recent ones of my family have not kept meticulously ~ so your 'process' is s great to 'restore' ~ Thank You for sharing this knowledge ~ Lady Susan has an upper lip like yours ~ just an observation ~ I'm an artist & facial characteristics readily are seen ~ A Hopwood Indeed ~
Sometimes I think (aka, 'worry') that UA-cam's algorithm knows me better than any human. 🤣 Recently, it put your vlog on my list. I own an 18th century Early American Colonial home in Northern New England. Or maybe more accurate to say, it owns me! 😁 Usually I watch on my TV (Firestick) and cannot comment. But now on a laptop I wanted to tell you that I enjoy watching and did appreciate this tutorial! I've used PhotoShop to fix some old photos of my family too. But, I use it so rarely that each time I do I get aggravated trying to remember/relearn its features. Yours was better than any tutorial I've seen! Not sure you'll even have time to read this comment since I don't even have time to revisit all of your vlogs. 😉 But ... I'm super interested in lime-related products, e.g., lime mortar, limewash. I've seen some videos about making "hot lime" that have scared the bejeezus out of me. But I have brick arches in my cellar that need fixing and I want to use the right mortar, the type that would have been used in the late 1700's when the house was built. If you're planning any upcoming volunteer/teaching programs that 'this ol' gal' from New England could fly over the pond to attend, I'd be really interested in knowing the details. Thanks for your videos! They're really interesting and entertaining. Your entertainment background is very apparent and makes for some super content!
Wow what an amazing message! Thank you- so glad to know you're watching. Yes we'll be doing more episodes on lime mortar as we go into this next stage of renovation! cheers
Hi Hopwood. This is a great way to restore and archive old photos for the future. Now you don't have to use the original photos to show to visitors so they will not fade away due to direct light. Also great you can do it your self👍 🙂
Thank you so much for this video. I am in the process of scanning my husbands family photos and have gotten a bit discouraged. This video has shown me new ways to improve some of the photos already scanned. I had begun to think I would need to rescan many of the photos. This video came at a great time for me. This is really outstanding. I have enjoyed all the videos about Hopwood Hall. This one is going to help me at my house. Thanks. Keep up all the great work. Another video on photo retouching would be fantastic.
This was great info. I have a box full of old photos that I was wondering how I could restore them, now I know. Thanks so much for sharing this with us.
I’ve been enjoying watching all the work to the house, an admirable if daunting project. This segment about restoring old photographs was very informative. I’ve working of restoring and colorizing family history pictures for some time using Photoshop Elements. I tried the full version of Photoshop but discovered Elements was sufficient for my purposes. I’ve never checked AI software, thus your demonstration of what Topaz can do and at a good for me. I immediately bought the $199 package. You’re right, it’s phenomenal! Worth every cent. My genealogy group founder is also quite interested and I’m sure we will be presenting it in our next meeting. I’m an 83 old coot living in an assisted living facility thus I spent a lot of time on genealogy as well as restoring and colonizing old pictures. So, you are responsible for my taking a next step in this. I am ever so grateful that you have introduced me to this advance.
Thank you for this unexpected but perfect video! I’ve been recently going through old family photos after my father died. As a lover of history, this was so interesting, useful and easy to follow. I know what I’ll be doing in the next few days!
Great video! I have done quite a bit of image interpretation for restoring old buildings and here is something to keep in mind. AI does not know what details exist in your particular photo. It is "adding detail" by comparing your photo to the set of images on which it was trained. To ensure your photo ends up as true to reality as possible, you should start with a scan of your image that is at a resolution that is as close to the actual photo "resolution" as possible. In an old black and white photo, the "resolution" is essentially defined by the size of the grains. This means, if the details in your image are important, use a flat bed scanner set at a scanning resolution that captures the grain in the photo clearly. If you zoom in on your scan and see pixels before you see the grains, boost the scanning resolution and try again. Yes, this will make your image files huge, but so does Gigapixel!
Good to know. Personally not interested in more content like this, but I do have a lot of old pics. Thanks! I love watching the restoration process and the sleuthing with people who had some connection with Hopwood Hall and the history of your family.
This was fascinating. Well done you. The how-to's are a great idea. Could you give us in one of the upcoming videos an update on the window repair. I loved the one where one of the staff, I believe, restored over 100 panes. Are you still holding workshops for this? Keep up the good work. The only way it could be better is to have more episodes. Could you do a catch up of over the summer and plans for fall / winter sometime soon?
Watching this video made me think of all the portraits that once graced Hopwood Hall and how difficult it would be to find those or get those back. So sad! Then I had this idea that I had to share with you! I hope you don’t mind! As you get further along maybe you could have art students create semi-historically accurate portraits that could grace the Hall in areas where it would make sense, including some of your Hopwood ancestors that came to America with information posted below about those Hopwood citizens so that visitors could read about them and enjoy the portraiture. As you are able to restore originals, you could add them in. Just had to share that idea. I love history, and I wish you the best with all your efforts!
Thx! And just to add- the portraits could maybe include the dress, regalia, and symbolism of the relevant time period. Ok! I’m done now! Lol Thanks again for all the videos!
Thank you for your video - I was interested in restoring some old family photos and came across your channel. Just started watching it and my first question is why not buying a decent photo scanner? I just got one from Amazon for $130 CAD (80 pounds) and it has 4800 DPI resolution. Sounds much better than taking pictures with a phone.
Okay...Todd or do you go by Hopwood these days :-) WITH your Hollywood background, will you write the script for the future movie of your ancestors who lived in Hopwood Hall? I would love to watch how the Hall was BEFORE WWI and what happened during the WAR and the loss of the two sons. WHO would be Lady Hopwood? WHO would play the roles of the heir lost in the war? IT WOULD BE A FANTASTIC movie that would tell the story of how it came to become property back to your family.. SO many movie/Made for TV scripts come out of your ancestral home. I always have enjoyed EDWARDIAN ENGLAND or VICTORIAN ENGLAND. Brits know how to do great historical family dramas based on either real life (Victoria on PBS, obviously Downton Abby, and one of my favorites..POLDARK).
Years ago I played around with copying some historic photographs and tried to remove the bluish tinge like the Long Gallery in Hopwood Hall photograph. I vaguely rememeber using a polarizing filter to fix it. Mind you this was copied in a studio with lighting from each side,
Yes please, i would like more of these videos, plus could you help with negatives i have lots from my G grandfather 1900 onward also many from ww1 i would love to be able to copy and save the images...
If you have old pictures and slides, sometimes libraries have really nice equipment you can use for free. Ours has great equipment and you can use it for an hour at a time.
For the best result I would scan them, but if its an image that are to big or to fragile to move then the better image you can take the better it will look. If the images are small I usually scan several of them together and separate them in PS afterwards.
Camera is best. Scanning can leave them a bit blurry. Adobe is the first mistake . Adobe has made it so once you no loner pay they hold your photos hostage. Most pro's are dumping them Never want to use them. Gimp is a good choice its free. or Paintshop pro by Corel is the best for paid software and once you buy its yours .
Many of our viewers are now using a mobile phone so we're trying to keep up with the times. In the future we may offer a video about how to physically restore an old portrait so perhaps that will be of interest. In the meantime we have digitally saved many old images that would've been lost forever so we are very happy!
Many of your viewers may also have a printer with a scanner built in, which will provide a much better result, even with a basic home 1200dpi scanner - if they can afford a phone, and the computer to go along with the tutorial, they most likely have a printer/scanner combo too ...
Hi here is the info I mention in the video!:
Topaz Gigapixel AI Dictionary
Topaz Gigapixel AI: Software that uses AI to upscale and enhance image quality.
AI Model: Refers to the specific model designed to enhance images in particular ways. Gigapixel AI uses different models tailored for specific types of images or desired outcomes. For instance, there might be a model optimized for architectural photos and another generally low-resolution images.
Resize Mode (Upscale Factor): How much the software will enlarge or upscale the image. The "Upscale Factor" is the multiplier for this enlargement. For example, a 2x upscale factor will double the image's dimensions, while a 4x factor will quadruple them. Gigapixel AI doesn't just enlarge the image; it uses its AI to intelligently fill in lost or pixelated details.
Face Recovery: A specialized feature that focuses on enhancing facial details in photos using AI, especially beneficial for older or low-res images.
Export: The process of saving your edited image in a specific format to use elsewhere.
Adobe Photoshop Dictionary
Photoshop: A Photo Editing Software used by professionals and hobbyists alike for a wide range of image manipulation tasks.
Perspective Warp: Used to adjust the perspective of a particular part of your image. It's especially useful for aligning images taken from an angle to appear as if they were taken straight on.
Crop Tool: Allows you to trim, scale, and straighten your images.
Fill: A command that allows you to fill a selected area with a specific color, pattern, or content-aware data. It can be used to quickly change the background or to replace a selected area with a uniform color or pattern. Here we used transparent as we only needed the area which is cropped.
Delete Cropped Pixels: When using the Crop Tool, if "Delete Cropped Pixels" is checked, any pixels that are outside the new cropped area will be permanently deleted from the image. If it's unchecked, the cropped pixels are merely hidden and can be recovered if you decide to adjust the crop later.
Layers: Think of these as transparent sheets stacked on top of each other. You can edit one layer without affecting the others. This is useful as you can make changes without permanently altering the original photo.
Spot Healing: Click on a small imperfection, like a speck or scratch, and Photoshop tries to automatically fix it for you.
Healing Brush Tool: This tool lets you fix imperfections. You pick a good part of the photo (source point) and then "paint" over a damaged area. This tool blends the texture from the source point with the lighting and color of the target area.
Clone Stamp Tool: This tool lets you copy a part of the photo and "stamp" it onto another part. It's useful for replacing missing or damaged sections with similar-looking areas from the same photo. This does not blend as the Healing Brush does.
Sample All Layers: When using certain tools, turning this on will allow the tool to consider and pull information from all visible layers, rather than just the currently active layer. This is useful when you're working on a separate layer but want to reference the entire image. We also used Current and Below in this video.
Camera Raw Filter: This is a powerful tool that lets you adjust and enhance photos as if you were tweaking settings on a camera after the photo was taken. For restoration, it can help in adjusting exposure, clarity, and other aspects to bring life back to old or faded photos.
Film Grain: This refers to the visible granules or speckles that can be seen in analog photographs. For restoration, you might want to add some grain to make a restored area match the rest of the photo or if the grain has been reduced by other software.
Brush Hardness: Think of this as the edge of your digital brush. A brush with 100% hardness has a solid, sharp edge, while a brush with 0% hardness has a soft, feathered edge. For restoration, a softer brush can help blend edits more seamlessly, while a harder brush might be used for precise corrections.
Brush Size: Determines the brush's size. Adjust for detailed work or covering large areas.
Areas we didn’t get a chance to cover:
Content-Aware Fill: If you have a missing or damaged part in a photo, you can select it and let Photoshop automatically fill it in by guessing what should be there based on the surrounding areas.
Patch Tool: You can select a damaged area and then drag it to a good area to replace it. It blends the good area over the damaged one.
Lasso Tools: These are selection tools that let you outline specific areas of a photo. Useful for isolating areas you want to edit or protect.
Opacity: Determines how transparent a layer or tool effect is.
Photo Restoration Beta: Found under Filters, then Neural Filters.
I love this. I used to use some early programs and earlier Adobe Photoshop pro abt 15 years ago+.
Id enlarge the area and do airbrush. I took a picture of my Great Grandfather and then got a photo of my brother and merged my brother's face on it and layered the scratches over his face to match the old photo and then emailed him telling him I'd received a photo of our Great Grandfather and you look exactly like him.
He laughed. I thought I did a good job.
At the end of the semester of my photography class critique when I put my photos out, the class went "uh, Ansel Adams".
What a compliment.
I could just get lost in photography and music and horses and painting....
I have a several albums of photos to touch up.
Thanks for watching! Have fun restoring your photo albums. There are lots of new tools in the newest Photoshop. What a great idea to merge the image of your Great Grandfather and brother 😀
@@HopwoodXIV
I was so excited and had so much fun in the darkroom, stayed in it for hours that at first I didn't pay much attention to things like lint on lenses. Everyone in the class made fun of me for my lack of that detail. Lol. For a Student Advertising Competition, I turned a bunch of photos & illustrations in, matted then and titled them. One was a rose with the lint all on it and I just titled it 'Dusty Rose'. lol.
During the awards ceremony I won a 1st place for another Photo I did. Then in the illustration category they said that this had never happened before. This person has tied themself for 1st place. I had 2 Watercolors that won't first place. Lol
They weren't laughing anymore. I had paid so much attention to the subject and learning, experimenting that by the end of the color photography class the kids came to me for help. I was finished way before the end of that semester.
The new software, digital quality and A.I. are just amazing now.
@@HopwoodXIV
I tried to merge my Great Grandfather's face on my brother's photo and it did not work. He looked like Frankenstein. Lol. My brother's photo I took the image from was a kickboxing championship photo holding a trophy, he was in his 40's. It just didn't carry over. Ha. My brother was a kickboxing dentist. 🦷
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Do you have your family tree online? I'm a direct descendent of William Shakespeare's brother, and a direct descendent of George Washington's Grandfather Ball.
According to A I , common ancestors with Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Diana, Marie Antoinette, king Henry 1st of France & Queen Anne of Kiev, Vladimir the Wise & St Anna (King Olaf of Sweden's daughter-Olafsdotter), Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Zachery Taylor, Benjamin Harrison, William Henry Harrison, William Howard Taft, Andrew Jackson, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, James K. Polk, Rutherford B Hayes, Franklin Pierce, Millard Fillmore (he looks like Alec Baldwin), Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Warren G Harding, Herbert Hoover, LBJ, Nixon, Harry Truman, Ulysses S Grant, Winston Churchill, James Garfield, Thomas Edison, John Browning, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry David Thoreau, Jane Austen, Robert Reid Stevenson, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, T.S. Elliot, Agatha Christie, Cecile B. DeMille, Kathryn Hepburn, John Wayne, Buffalo Bill, Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, Lucille Ball, Shirley Temple, Walt Disney, Marilyn Monroe, Buster Keaton, Anne Franklin, Florence Nightingale, Amelia Earhart, Thomas Edison, Adam Smith, Eli Whitney, Samuel Morse, Robert Peary, Charles Lindbergh, Wilbur & Orville Wright, Filo T. Farnsworth, William Clayton, John Dunlop, Robert Englebretsen.
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We'll see about all that. Lol
How wonderful, Hopwood. The results of your restored pictures are astonishing. Thank you so much for sharing all this information.
cheers Demelza! We still have hundreds of photos to restore but it is so rewarding to know that these will be digitized for the futute!!
Thank you, Hopwood!!! Your demonstration can help so many of us who are not necessarily restoring a 600 year old home !! Really sweet of you to share!
Thanks for watching! Glad it was helpful! 😀
Hey Hopwood, thanks for this, this software is frighteningly good - like photo Botox! This would be a really worthwhile project for your creative volunteers, digitising these images makes them accessible to all at the click of a button without having to wade through dusty boxes (although I do like wading through dusty boxes!). Keep up the good work ❤🥰
Thanks so much! Yes we feel so lucky to have the technology to save these images and then also to be able to share them!
Repairing, restoring and enhancing photos is a passion of mine. You covered many important points: It is vital to save originals and digital originals; using layers saves so much time in editing; global repairs are generally excessive (you mentioned lines) and using the more time consuming brushes usually wind up more accurate. One thing you didn't mention that is good to start doing asap naming the photos in a consistent and searchable manner. I include (at a minimum) date, location and subject in the file name of my photos. The more photos you work on the more you will appreciate having a uniform system for storage and retrieval.
Great suggestion Leanna! Thank you!!
Really looking forward to trying this out on some of my family’s old photos! 😊
Thanks Maisie! Yes it's so worth it when you are finished!!
What a fantastic and easy lesson to follow. Brilliant!
Thank you! 😀 We've found it so rewarding to go through the process
Fantastic. This is really useful. Thanks Hopwood x
cheers Lucy! Great to know!
Fascinating!
Thanks Carol!
Brilliant!... thankyou Hopwood. X
Thanks for watching Geraldine! 😀
Wow!!! Such a helpful tutorial! Thank you!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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i've lots of old photos i shall have to try thank you so useful
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Another great video, Hopwood - thanks. Keep up the good work. GO BLUE.
Thank you so much! 😀
Thank you so much! Knowing I can use my phone is a game changer for me!
Great to hear!
Wow great job Hopwood! Thank you for the information and it’s gonna be so fun tools!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks Cheryl! 😀
That was very interesting ❤
Thanks Nelle!
Utterly amazing Hopwood. I will definitely refer to this as I have many old photos of family from 1800's ~ 1844 oldest ~ my great aunt meticulously kept scrapbbooks of family old farms homes people ~ beautifully stored with black points mounting & acid free paper safe 'glue' ~ most photos are from my father's side which she so carefully 'catalogued' ~ more recent ones of my family have not kept meticulously ~ so your 'process' is s great to 'restore' ~ Thank You for sharing this knowledge ~ Lady Susan has an upper lip like yours ~ just an observation ~ I'm an artist & facial characteristics readily are seen ~ A Hopwood Indeed ~
Great to know! Thanks so much Eliza!
This was awesome! You did a great job explaining each step. Thanks!
Thanks Wendy!
Sometimes I think (aka, 'worry') that UA-cam's algorithm knows me better than any human. 🤣 Recently, it put your vlog on my list.
I own an 18th century Early American Colonial home in Northern New England. Or maybe more accurate to say, it owns me! 😁 Usually I watch on my TV (Firestick) and cannot comment. But now on a laptop I wanted to tell you that I enjoy watching and did appreciate this tutorial! I've used PhotoShop to fix some old photos of my family too. But, I use it so rarely that each time I do I get aggravated trying to remember/relearn its features. Yours was better than any tutorial I've seen!
Not sure you'll even have time to read this comment since I don't even have time to revisit all of your vlogs. 😉 But ... I'm super interested in lime-related products, e.g., lime mortar, limewash. I've seen some videos about making "hot lime" that have scared the bejeezus out of me. But I have brick arches in my cellar that need fixing and I want to use the right mortar, the type that would have been used in the late 1700's when the house was built. If you're planning any upcoming volunteer/teaching programs that 'this ol' gal' from New England could fly over the pond to attend, I'd be really interested in knowing the details.
Thanks for your videos! They're really interesting and entertaining. Your entertainment background is very apparent and makes for some super content!
Wow what an amazing message! Thank you- so glad to know you're watching. Yes we'll be doing more episodes on lime mortar as we go into this next stage of renovation! cheers
Loved the video! ❤ would love to see more 😊
Thank you!!
Yes! Thank you! And yes please do continue to share videos of this type; and the continued restoration progress. I really enjoy them a lot.
Hi Hopwood. This is a great way to restore and archive old photos for the future. Now you don't have to use the original photos to show to visitors so they will not fade away due to direct light. Also great you can do it your self👍 🙂
Thanks Connie!
Great lesson!
Thanks Chantal!
Wonderful tools to see those pictures better, and preserve them for the futuro. 👍🏻😁
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Fascinating! So glad you are also moving forward with archival work! How is all the roof work going? Are you watertight as yet?
Thanks Gloria! Yes we are getting there! There are still a few challenging areas but we should be there next year!!
Thank you so much for this video. I am in the process of scanning my husbands family photos and have gotten a bit discouraged. This video has shown me new ways to improve some of the photos already scanned. I had begun to think I would need to rescan many of the photos. This video came at a great time for me. This is really outstanding. I have enjoyed all the videos about Hopwood Hall. This one is going to help me at my house. Thanks. Keep up all the great work. Another video on photo retouching would be fantastic.
Thanks for watching! Good luck with enhancing your husband's family photos!! 😀
This was great info. I have a box full of old photos that I was wondering how I could restore them, now I know. Thanks so much for sharing this with us.
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such a great video!! thank you so much
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I’ve been enjoying watching all the work to the house, an admirable if daunting project. This segment about restoring old photographs was very informative. I’ve working of restoring and colorizing family history pictures for some time using Photoshop Elements. I tried the full version of Photoshop but discovered Elements was sufficient for my purposes. I’ve never checked AI software, thus your demonstration of what Topaz can do and at a good for me. I immediately bought the $199 package. You’re right, it’s phenomenal! Worth every cent. My genealogy group founder is also quite interested and I’m sure we will be presenting it in our next meeting.
I’m an 83 old coot living in an assisted living facility thus I spent a lot of time on genealogy as well as restoring and colonizing old pictures. So, you are responsible for my taking a next step in this.
I am ever so grateful that you have introduced me to this advance.
Wow that's amazing Charles! I am so glad you let us know and that you are along with us on the adventure!! 😀
Thank you, it's a great tutorial for beginners indeed. I hope you'll do another more advanced one with the same great didactic quality
Thank you for this unexpected but perfect video! I’ve been recently going through old family photos after my father died. As a lover of history, this was so interesting, useful and easy to follow. I know what I’ll be doing in the next few days!
Thanks Kathy! Sorry for your loss, I hope all goes well with restoring your family photos.
@@HopwoodXIVyou’re so thoughtful!! Thank you!
Great video! I have done quite a bit of image interpretation for restoring old buildings and here is something to keep in mind. AI does not know what details exist in your particular photo. It is "adding detail" by comparing your photo to the set of images on which it was trained. To ensure your photo ends up as true to reality as possible, you should start with a scan of your image that is at a resolution that is as close to the actual photo "resolution" as possible. In an old black and white photo, the "resolution" is essentially defined by the size of the grains.
This means, if the details in your image are important, use a flat bed scanner set at a scanning resolution that captures the grain in the photo clearly. If you zoom in on your scan and see pixels before you see the grains, boost the scanning resolution and try again. Yes, this will make your image files huge, but so does Gigapixel!
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Very cool.. So many pictures, so little time.. thx for sharing...
Thanks Gary! 😀
This is brilliant! Thank you. I'm off to do my families old old photos now!
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Very interesting...
Thanks Ros!
Very interesting and informative. Thank you.
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Very helpful! Thanks for this.
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Enjoyed this very much. Would love to learn this process. I have many family photos from early 1900s that need special care.
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Thanks Linda! Yes you'll be so happy when they are restored!
Good to know. Personally not interested in more content like this, but I do have a lot of old pics. Thanks!
I love watching the restoration process and the sleuthing with people who had some connection with Hopwood Hall and the history of your family.
Thanks for your feedback! Lots more of our restoration and history content coming soon. 😀
So interesting. Thank you.
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Fascinating. As a techno moron, even simplified it goes over my head, but great to watch. Having said that, I would love to give it a go.
Haha thanks John! If you give it a try I'd love to hear how it goes!
Love this!
Thanks Andrea!
This was fascinating. Well done you. The how-to's are a great idea. Could you give us in one of the upcoming videos an update on the window repair. I loved the one where one of the staff, I believe, restored over 100 panes. Are you still holding workshops for this? Keep up the good work. The only way it could be better is to have more episodes. Could you do a catch up of over the summer and plans for fall / winter sometime soon?
What a great effort to ensure that the photos are available for future generations. What has been happening in the restoration area?
Thanks Thomas! Yes we'll be having more videos out soon with updates about the Hall restoration
Watching this video made me think of all the portraits that once graced Hopwood Hall and how difficult it would be to find those or get those back. So sad! Then I had this idea that I had to share with you! I hope you don’t mind! As you get further along maybe you could have art students create semi-historically accurate portraits that could grace the Hall in areas where it would make sense, including some of your Hopwood ancestors that came to America with information posted below about those Hopwood citizens so that visitors could read about them and enjoy the portraiture. As you are able to restore originals, you could add them in. Just had to share that idea. I love history, and I wish you the best with all your efforts!
Great suggestion! Thanks so much!! 😀
Thx! And just to add- the portraits could maybe include the dress, regalia, and symbolism of the relevant time period. Ok! I’m done now! Lol Thanks again for all the videos!
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Thank you for your video - I was interested in restoring some old family photos and came across your channel. Just started watching it and my first question is why not buying a decent photo scanner? I just got one from Amazon for $130 CAD (80 pounds) and it has 4800 DPI resolution. Sounds much better than taking pictures with a phone.
@@DrSamsHealth Thanks I'll try that! At the time, the phone at the Hall worked well being so portable
Okay...Todd or do you go by Hopwood these days :-) WITH your Hollywood background, will you write the script for the future movie of your ancestors who lived in Hopwood Hall? I would love to watch how the Hall was BEFORE WWI and what happened during the WAR and the loss of the two sons. WHO would be Lady Hopwood? WHO would play the roles of the heir lost in the war? IT WOULD BE A FANTASTIC movie that would tell the story of how it came to become property back to your family.. SO many movie/Made for TV scripts come out of your ancestral home. I always have enjoyed EDWARDIAN ENGLAND or VICTORIAN ENGLAND. Brits know how to do great historical family dramas based on either real life (Victoria on PBS, obviously Downton Abby, and one of my favorites..POLDARK).
Thank you! Yes I would really enjoy doing that at some point!
EXCELLENT! Maybe Julien Fellows would be interested with his incredible knowledge of manners at the Manor.@@HopwoodXIV
Years ago I played around with copying some historic photographs and tried to remove the bluish tinge like the Long Gallery in Hopwood Hall photograph. I vaguely rememeber using a polarizing filter to fix it. Mind you this was copied in a studio with lighting from each side,
Yes please, i would like more of these videos, plus could you help with negatives i have lots from my G grandfather 1900 onward also many from ww1 i would love to be able to copy and save the images...
Thanks Julie! We'll look into it to see what we can find out!
Yeah got a notice!
If you have old pictures and slides, sometimes libraries have really nice equipment you can use for free. Ours has great equipment and you can use it for an hour at a time.
Wow that's great!
For the best result I would scan them, but if its an image that are to big or to fragile to move then the better image you can take the better it will look.
If the images are small I usually scan several of them together and separate them in PS afterwards.
@@Alucard45000 Thank you!
You could give Anthony Morganti some competition!
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Best case scenario is to get 2 lights from either side and angle it so that it doesn't reflect back into the camera.
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uhh ... good old regular phone
Camera is best. Scanning can leave them a bit blurry. Adobe is the first mistake . Adobe has made it so once you no loner pay they hold your photos hostage. Most pro's are dumping them Never want to use them. Gimp is a good choice its free. or Paintshop pro by Corel is the best for paid software and once you buy its yours .
@@nightstringers Thank you for the info!
I had great expectatons,, until he picked up his iPhone... ugh.
Many of our viewers are now using a mobile phone so we're trying to keep up with the times. In the future we may offer a video about how to physically restore an old portrait so perhaps that will be of interest. In the meantime we have digitally saved many old images that would've been lost forever so we are very happy!
Many of your viewers may also have a printer with a scanner built in, which will provide a much better result, even with a basic home 1200dpi scanner - if they can afford a phone, and the computer to go along with the tutorial, they most likely have a printer/scanner combo too ...
@@t94xr yes for sure!!
This is awful, imagine taking a picture with your phone for archival, then using A.I. to upscale it. What a disgrace.
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