[WikiEN-l] Wikimedian image restorations exploited on eBay

[Carcharoth]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke <wikipedia at zog.org> wrote:
> 2009/9/17 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>

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>> And in any cases, some aspects of restoration *are* creative (mainly
>> the ones that involve filling in missing material), but those can be
>> controversial.
>
> Matter of interpretation. Take this portrait I restored:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Andrew_Curtin2.jpg
> Can you tell what I filled in? This is the original image:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrew_Curtin.jpg
>
> Skill involved, sure. But no artistry.
>
> Adding a hand was an order of magnitude easier than adding the missing parts
> of his pants, by the way. :)

Thanks for those examples. An excellent restoration. I'd love to
discuss the missing hand in more detail some time, as that is a good
example of something I think can be controversial. You absolutely have
to make clear when that sort of thing is done, and how and why.

Examples of when the line is crossed between adding things and
creating something new, would be good. I know of quite a few examples,
but will have to come back to this later. Mainly digital composites
and colouring ins of old photos.

Carcharoth