There’s a new image processor on my computers. Recently the chief developer of one of my favorite image editors, Picture Window Pro (PWP), sent out a sad email letting all PWP users know that he is stopping PWP development. He thanked us for over twenty years of support and as a last gift converted the … Continue reading Affinity Photo Review
Category: Restoration
Minnie’s Pictures
Minnie E. Raver 1881-1977 While going through my late mother’s pictures I came across a box of my great-grandmother Minnie’s old photographs. When my great-grandmother died in 1977 my grandmother Hazel took her pictures and stuffed them in her Hoarder’s level junk filled basement.1 After Hazel’s death my mother recovered Minnie’s pictures from Hazel’s hoard and … Continue reading Minnie’s Pictures
More Photographic Waybacking
There are three things I like about funerals: meeting old friends and relatives, unlimited quantities of food and browsing old photographs. A few weeks ago my sister and sister-in-law went through my mother’s closets and found a stash of old photographs that had eluded my frequent attempts to catalog and archive family pictures. I have a … Continue reading More Photographic Waybacking
The Joys of Photographic Waybacking
Remember Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine. Mr Peabody was dog, with a pet boy Sherman, that used his Wayback time travel machine to visit the past. I'm not sure if he ever visited the future; that's a question best left to Rocky and Bullwinkle historians. Well, I have Wayback machines; they're called film and flatbed scanners. I … Continue reading The Joys of Photographic Waybacking
Analyze the Data not the Drivel 