[WikiEN-l] Wikimedian image restorations exploited on eBay

[Durova]

So which path would you follow?
1. Eliminate the paper texture during restoration because a textureless
background facilitates physical printout?
2. Convert to vector graphics?
3. Remain in raster grahics and keep the paper texture to preserve the look
and feel of a period document?

All three directions have led to featured pictures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Punch_-_Masculine_beauty_retouched1.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ornamental_Alphabet_-_16th_Century.svg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lincoln_and_Johnsond.jpg

The third option opens its own set of questions: balance the white to "hot
off the presses" new?  Day old?  Five years in the scrapbook?

Historic media editors debate these decisions; there are good arguments for
and against all of them.  And there isn't any absolute solution.  Sometimes
we change our minds.

-Durova

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

> Durova wrote:
> > Restoration is inherently interpretive.  Consider something simple: a
> > newspaper cartoon in black and white.  There are many possible whites;
> which
> > do you select?
>
> The reasonable assumption is that the background white is an unprinted
> area; the white is a function of the paper rather than of the
> printing..  Otherwise we need to distinguish between a printing on fresh
> paper and an old printing on paper that has since yellowed with age.
>
> Ec
>
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