Oh NO!!!!!!!

jccrtv said:

I was given an extremely damaged portait of my aunt's grandparents.
It had everything wrong with it you can think of including many
parts cracked and withered leaving substantial holes. But its a
portrait of her grandparents so saving it was very important. It
took me 2 days of meticulous work. I even bought two additional
restoration books for advice on specific trouble spots. In the end,
it was beautiful! I modemed it to Ophoto and the new 8x10 copies
were stunning. Textbook example of how restoration works when you
place the old 8x10 next to the new one. My family mounted a copy
for dispay at a family party to the aunt could see it. The aunt
finally saw it, hugged me and thanked me for my time with it.

So why the "Oh NO!!!!!!!" ? Because I learned this morning that
secretly she's seething mad. She thinks "restoring means making the
original damaged photo...."restored". She doesn't want my "copy" I
made on "his computer". She wants the ripped and damamged original
"restored". You jsut can't win. I would suggest that anyone taking
on a paid assignment to restore an old photo, that you clearly
state in writing that you will not be REPAIRING the original full
of holes and missing parts.

Reaching for the rolaids.

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jccrtv said:

I was given an extremely damaged portait of my aunt's grandparents.
It had everything wrong with it you can think of including many
parts cracked and withered leaving substantial holes. But its a
portrait of her grandparents so saving it was very important. It
took me 2 days of meticulous work. I even bought two additional
restoration books for advice on specific trouble spots. In the end,
it was beautiful! I modemed it to Ophoto and the new 8x10 copies
were stunning. Textbook example of how restoration works when you
place the old 8x10 next to the new one. My family mounted a copy
for dispay at a family party to the aunt could see it. The aunt
finally saw it, hugged me and thanked me for my time with it.

So why the "Oh NO!!!!!!!" ? Because I learned this morning that
secretly she's seething mad. She thinks "restoring means making the
original damaged photo...."restored". She doesn't want my "copy" I
made on "his computer". She wants the ripped and damamged original
"restored". You jsut can't win. I would suggest that anyone taking
on a paid assignment to restore an old photo, that you clearly
state in writing that you will not be REPAIRING the original full
of holes and missing parts.

Reaching for the rolaids.

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TimH said:

"What we here is failure to communicate"

Talk with your Aunt and give her all of the facts and data on why
the original can not be restored..Ask her for her suggestions on
anything that could be improved on the picture you made...maybe the
colours are not quite right....Involve her in the process...
--
Tim

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