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howard - 09 May 2007 16:39 GMT

Ive been asked to copy and possibly restore this photo
of a Cuban gent. There are creases in the paper, I don't
know how this was caused. The paper is obviously not the
resin coated type, being somewhere between 50-70 years
old.

Anyway of 'ironing out' these creases ?

Soak and carefully spoon out, or leave it as is ?

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Geoff Berrow - 09 May 2007 19:54 GMT

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>Anyway of 'ironing out' these creases ?

Yup. Some careful work with a cloning tool.

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Mark Dunn - 10 May 2007 09:09 GMT

Experiment with the orientation on the scanner bed. Otherwise you ought to
be able to minimise the creases with flat diffuse copy lighting.

> Message-ID: <IWl0i.4065$J81.1448@newsfe4-gui.ntli.net> from howard
> contained the following:
>
> >Anyway of 'ironing out' these creases ?
>
> Yup. Some careful work with a cloning tool.

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Rob Morley - 10 May 2007 09:50 GMT

> Experiment with the orientation on the scanner bed. Otherwise you ought to
> be able to minimise the creases with flat diffuse copy lighting.

How about contact printing? I guess the contrast would be terrible even
with a really hard paper. Has anyone tried this sort of thing?

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