On 8 July 2012 18:13, Adam Cuerden cuerden@gmail.com wrote:
With all respect, Geni, it's clear you've never done a restoration.
Oh but I have. Admittedly generally on canals rather than 2D images.
In cases where information is missing, it's necessary to fill it in. While this may not have been the most major restoration I've done, there were still many areas where information had to be recreated: one man had a long scratch through his eye, which meant I had to recreate the area in the scratch; there were blank areas on the legs of one person, which meant fixing the wrinkles over them, and so on. It's a lot of small, little artistic decisions, which are necessary in order to make things look right. Would other decisions work just as well? Possibly. But the very act of restoration necessarily means making such decisions.
I know all this but at the present time the US courts seem to judge by intentions.