3844 x 5548 px | 32,5 x 47 cm | 12,8 x 18,5 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
22 maggio 2024
Ubicazione:
uk
Altre informazioni:
Image taken from 1872 revised version of 'A History of the Vegetable Kingdom' by William Rhind. Pub. Blackie & Son, Paternoster Row EC, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Believed to be out of copyright.... These appear to be hand-coloured pictures; the inks do not always precisely follow black edges, and occasionally a small ink smear appears. The colour illustrations in Rhind's book are mostly set out in a 1/4-page format for each species pictured, with the 1/4-page space filling the camera frame here... Rhind's layout meant that some parts of neighbouring plant illustrations infringe the camera view; so some digital restoration has been done to eliminate these odd fronds using blank page space as fill in... The pages, however, had marked 'foxing' [the yellowing or orange tint of old paper] around the three main page edges while the binding/spine side had discoloration. Really badly foxed areas have been re-built with cleaner areas while some desaturation in the yellow and orange channels has been used. The worst surface blemishes [tears] & ink spatter are removed... Whilst the image in its' current state may be useful, in some instances I feel that flood-filling the background white may be better, while working with PS using copy & paste in layer masks [as you might with copying fine hair, ] and using selection tools with carefully chosen edge detection and edge refinement settings.
