Here is an example of the kind of digital "restoration" I do with fine art images of paintings that are in poor condition. These are excerpts from the painting "The Mischievous Tale" by German painter Edmund Adler. The original (top) was obtained from Guarisco Gallerey at www.guariscogallery.com/. As you can see it was quite scummy looking in the lower left quadrant. The edited image (bottom) is the one I use in my wallpaper and screensaver program.

Have just thankfully discovered that you CAN go back and correct typos etc in previous postings.

Discovered my coworker Union Guy's picture when I went to flickr on the pc he used to set up his account. I'm sure all of us who know him would agree it's a great likeness!

Lessons Learned so far. Always preview before publishing to catch those errors! Nice that they offer you the option of easily editing the HTML to customize the template any way you please. My change was modest: The change of the Header Color from white to Greenish Blue to better compliment the image I included.

Inspiration has struck!

Created this blog as an assignment for KCLS's learning 2.0 package. Probably not something I would have ever done otherwise. After scratching my head for a theme or topic, I have decided on my hobby of restoration of digital images of fine art works, which I add to my Webshots wallpaper and screen-saver collection. This hobby was inspired by the RGB labs displays we now have in some of our branches at KCLS. This gives me something of the same effect, and helps me painlessly learn something about art and artists at the same time. Unfortunately, many paintings are in somewhat crummy condition, with flaking paint, scratches, moldy spots, cracks, and the like. A degree of this adds character and is fine by me, but I find it interferes with my enjoyment of some pictures which I otherwise like very much. As a result, I have tried my hand at digital "restoration", and have become quite adept at it. Purists might scoff, but I don't much care. I have wondered if there might be others interested in doing the same thing, and in perhaps sharing restored images. Granted, what bothers me, might not be what bothers others, but you never know, and the process does take time. My favorite source of fine art images are the Art Renewal Center Museum(http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/contents.asp) and the Athenaeum (http://www.the-athenaeum.org/), although I have occasionally found errors on the ARC site, which they are not very responsive in correcting. Any one have any other suggestions? I have been working my way through the alphabet, and to date, I have a fairly extensive collection of artworks from artists beginning with Hans von Aachen and ending with Albert Bierstadt. Anyone been working backward from the z's? Sample before and after images to follow.

Going through the motions

Waiting for inspiration to strike. Not a blogger at heart.