{"id":37713,"date":"2026-08-10T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=37713"},"modified":"2026-08-10T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T00:03:00","slug":"toms-world-10aug2026-photo-cleanup-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/toms-world-10aug2026-photo-cleanup-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom’s World – 10AUG2026 – Photo Cleanup Software"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom | Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n

TomD<\/a><\/p>\n

Not trying to hijack your thread (he says while in the process of hijacking your thread) but I just added another part to a software suite that I have that unlocks some real and usable capabilities in synthesis with the other parts.<\/p>\n

Below, I\u2019ll attach a photo of my Grandmother and Father taken in 1924 +\/- 1. I found it years ago in an old suitcase and have since made various and some fairly significant efforts at restoration. But the latest software, Topaz Gigapixel, made a 102 year old heavily degraded B&W portrait look like is just came out of a modern studio.<\/p>\n

Since the original, I\u2019ve run it through 2 other Topaz filters that function as a plug-in Photoshop. The programs will function as standalone programs too. The Topaz filters are Denoise AI, Sharpen AI and Gigapixel. Currently Topaz has gone to a subscription basis and they would want $200\/month. The devil with that. If you hunt, you can buy them standalone for $30-$40 each and they plug into PS to function integrally.<\/p>\n

I would describe the specific process but the result would remind me of when, while in engineering school, a professor had me stand up in class and demanded that I describe in detail my critical path analysis of a multi-hundred item sequence. The description did\/could not make sense on an element by element verbal description, and was an obvious waste of everyone\u2019s time.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll attach the finished shot first, you can tell it was the 1924 equivalent of a studio portrait. Whenever I look at this shot, what pops (no pun intended) into my mind is a very short 20 years later, my Dad, as a West Point grad, was a Platoon Commander in the 101st Airborne was in a desperate and murderous fight with the Germans in Normandy. It\u2019s hard to look at the little fat faced cherub and equate that immanent reality.<\/p>\n

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\"Baby-and-Dad\"<\/a>
Baby-and-Dad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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