Slide Restoration
I wasn't sure what I should share on this Friday post; I have lots of scans to choose from, but not a lot of those are worthy of a Friday (when I at least try to share slightly better stuff)! So I decided to pick a pair of restored images, since those turned out pretty well.
We've seen plenty of photos of the old Burning Settler's Cabin on Tom Sawyer Island, one of those features that demonstrate the "hard facts" of life on the Frontier. As you can see, this slide (and all of the other slides in this batch) is very faded - they are dreaded Anscochrome slides, and are awful! What a shock to learn that they were eventually acquired by GAF (also horrible).
Say! That's much better! Thanks to the miracle of Photoshop; all of our woes are gone, and what's left is happiness and a pleasant vanilla aroma. I wonder if the natural gas that fueled the fire had an additive to make it more visible in daylight? Probably not. That poor settler had worked so hard, but he ran with scissors, and this is what happened.
Next is this washed-out view from the passageway through Sleeping Beauty Castle. As if it was the smoggiest day ever.
Much better! I guess the little family in front of us just arrived, even though the sun was setting? "We'll allow 2 hours at Disneyland, I have to be home for the big game between the Denver Monkeys and the Rhode Island Tardigrades". He'll be rooting for the Fighting Moss Piglets. The transition from the dark tunnel into the spaciousness, color, and light of Fantasyland is an old architecture trick ("compression and release"), used by old architects.
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What a difference a Photoshop makes-! These images both look wonderful - even the power poles in image #1 are all-a-twitter.
Thanks, Major, for manipulating the magic dials of color goodness.
That sign off to the right in the 2nd image states:
TICKET BOOK HOLDERS
Tear out and present coupon to operator.
TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED AT Fantasyland CENTRAL TICKET BOOTHS.
I can't read the text in the red section at the bottom of the sign.
Wow, from 'super nova' to the 'goldilocks zone' (just right). Amazing! The first, unadjusted image looks like things did after the Mt. St. Helens eruption; everything coated with a fine layer of white ash.
Is Carl Arrowshirt on fire? It's bad enough that he tripped and impaled himself with his scissors, but then to go up in flames! Maybe it's 'blood'? Or is he using his red shirt as a pillow? This is probably the best view of the Burning Cabin we've seen! I'm a gonna keep it.
"an old architecture trick ("compression and release"), used by old architects". Those old architects knew what they were doing! Wonderful transformation. I'm looking at the stone floor tiles, as one does, and I don't see any repeating pattern. I suppose they aren't really tiles at all, but just grout lines pressed into wet cement to look like tiles?
I always like, and appreciate, these 'before & after' posts. Thanks, Major.
In the first pic, we can see the settler's crop of corn or wheat, or whatever that is that's been tied together in upright bundles. I wonder how long those were there? Also, it looks like the settler's head is turned towards us, instead of looking upward. I don't remember seeing him in that position before. Or is he face down? If that's the case, then he's in position to ride the Horse-Drawn Streetcar!
.........is an old architecture trick ("compression and release"), used by old architects
Major, it's also used by health care professionals to stop bleeding! ;-)
You did a good job on these, Major! Thank you!
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