temojen's Journal: ImageMagick saves the day!

I've been very slowly working on ~200 images that were very badly damaged at the processing lab last november. There are severe scratches and huge amounts of debris all over every image (possibly exhaused developer at the lab? silver still left in the film? (C-41)). Today I found out that

for i in *.tif; echo $i; convert $i -noise 4 $i-good.tif; done

does the job in about 10 minutes per image for all but the worst damage, which I can clean myself given a clean source to clone from. It does lose a little sharpness, but I have more detail than needed anyways.

Way cool

[nizo]

I love ImageMagick; I wrote some scripts so my SO can now right click on a folder full of pictures from her camera and the thumbnails will be automatically generated for her by ImageMagick, so she can then email them instead of the gigantic poster-sized images that come from her camera.