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Särskilda ämnen & övrigt => _Archives => Discussions in English => Archive - General questions => Ämnet startat av: Thomas Hjelm skrivet 2008-06-14, 06:42
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Hello,
I've been looking through genline records and I have some difficulty reading handwriting sometimes. Does anyone here have any tips on using image-editing software (Photoshop, GIMP, etc) to make things more readable? What techniques do you use?
For example, GID: 2357.42.22600, line 2 is my farfars farfar. Another forum member told me in another thread (http://forum.genealogi.se/index.php?topic=79133) that it says he lost his left hand because he was shot in it. Looking at the line, I can make out some of the words. I see skott (shot) at the end, and I think I can see hand, but most of it is so blurry that I can't make out the letters. I want to be able to manipulate the image like this guy did in this thread (http://forum.genealogi.se/index.php?topic=81760). I know how to take a screenshot and copy it into an image-editing program (I use GIMP), but I don't know how to make it pretty and readable.
Thanks for any help!
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Guess I answer in english...
Well the source quality is very essential. Unfortunately many of thwe mormon files are of poor quality and are not good for close-up study.
Your example is not very good with Genline. However the same hh-record is available at SVAR and the quality much better:
(https://forum.rotter.se/discus/messages/2450/163784.jpg)
The text reads: enhändt,miste venster handen genom ett skott.
All I do trying to get better readability is just to fiddle with brightness and contrast. Sometimes - but not always - you get a result that is more easy to read.
(https://forum.rotter.se/discus/messages/2450/163785.jpg)
Copmanies offering digital photos of the churchbooks online - ArkivDigital, now together with Digi Arkiv - gives a much better result as you can see from many examples here on Anbytarforum.