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Old 07-01-2013, 06:00 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by AlexBell View Post
I'm sorry if this is in the wrong forum for this post, and to have to expose my abysmal ignorance about images.

The attached image is from a book published in 1894, taken from the Internet Archive. I'd very much like to use this and ten similar quality images as illustrations in an ebook I'm proof reading now.

My questions in decreasing order of importance are:
- Is the image fixable - can it be improved enough to make it usable?
- How would you describe what is wrong with the image? What needs to be fixed?
- What software would you recommend? - preferably free. I have PMView, Paint, Irfanview, and GIMP 2.8. But I am starting from scratch so far as doing more than sizing and cropping, which is part of my reason for asking what is wrong with the image.

I haven't found anything in the Wiki; is there anywhere else I can get help from?
Did you remake this image? It has too few shades of gray. The post internally has plenty of gray shades but the source must not have.

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