Photo Clean

[Sherry Galeazzi]

CanI reduce the amount of specks and dirt (dirty paper, old) on this image? Make it easier to read and print without wasting a lot of ink.

I changed to image to blck and white, but still have the original color photo.

Can I reduce the amount of specks and dirt (dirty paper, old) on this image? Make it easier to read and print without wasting a lot of ink.

I changed to image to blck and white, but still have the original color photo.

In the case of your document? Easiest and arguably best first step is your bog-standard high contrast. I ran your photo through an upscaler called Waifu2X and used the following presets on the default Brightness + Contrast:

When dealing with these sorts of documents, I've noticed it's a very similar philosophy to physically Xeroxing the papers over and over again. The best part about PDN is that you can in fact use more precise tools like the aforementioned dust removers!

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I take a lot of photos of whiteboards, blackboards, and so on for teaching purposes (examples online through May 2010). I'm interested in cleaning them up for archival purposes, preferably using Linux. Commercial products ClearBoard and PhotoNote are priced a little aggressively for my purposes, plus my students would like to have this capability too.

But if you want that AND the ability to edit the content of the image, such rearranging material to make it more organized, replacing handwriting with typed text in place, editing out junk, and importing other imagery in a collage, you have 2 choices:

I use JotNot on my iPhone which is pretty amazing (and only cost $1 for full version I think). Simple image capture, with several processing/correction presets and then export to JPG or multi-page PDF.

With EXPERTE.de Image Cleaner you can remove unwanted elements from a picture with just a few clicks. The tool can remove objects, people and text almost automatically - and can even be used to remove damages in old photos.

Simply upload the image in our tool above and select the area you want to remove or correct. Our tool will then automatically calculate how this area should look like and show you the result after 10 - 60 seconds. You can then download the cleaned image in full resolution.

I have an old metal engraved plate of a picture of my family that was used by the newspaper back in the 1950's. Unfortunately, it has a lot of white type spots of some kind of powder/crystal growth over some of the photo. Is there anyway that I can safely clean the photo plate?

If this is a thin metal sheet with the picture visible as a negative in slanting light, this plate was used on an offset press and the plate is probably aluminum.The white coating on the surface is possibly just an oxidized surface.Try making a paste with cream of tartar and small amount of warm water to form a paste. With a clean cotton rag try rubbing a spot on a non-critical area and rinse.

Something that has given me a good amount of grief tracking down the problem is that I don't always want to use "sort" in the extract process and instead want to go straight to the manual tool without outputting faces to a folder first (too much unnecessary writing and deleting will eventually kill a SSD).

(The program does give me this option which is why I figured that 'cleaning the alignments file' would work for both extracted faces as well as source photos--nope-- this was partially the source of the grief tracking down the problem. I also originally thought that running the manual tool after deleting a photo / face would automatically clean the alignments file--also no.)

I was searching for what the purpose of the "missing-frames" & "missing-alignments" job under the tools-alignments tab is used for and I'm still not quite sure. Before you answered the question, I thought that this might fix the problem. Based upon the program explanation (yellow box text) this option and several like it just identify the problem but does not fix the problem? (not a big deal...just seems a little odd to tell you there is a problem only).

From here we have to clean up manually. I do this using the smudge tool and paintbrush to pull the color in from the regions I trust into the regions that have been tainted by the drawing. I recommend duplicating the layer before doing this.

I have a NAS that I have scanned and cleaned several times, yet each time, PHOTO.SCR propagates in the folders again. What do I do? eset seems to catch and clean, but is apparently not removing the cause. The infection is only on the network drive, and not on my main computer. Please help.

Maybe source of infection is another machine whioch has got access to NAS files, if so, as long as you don't clean infected machines those files will appear again. It could be virtually anything - including OS on NAS itself.

I have done a scan of both my laptop (where eset resides) and the NAS. there are no other computers that access the NAS. I am currently doing another scan of the NAS drive, and will post the scan log. The NAS is 2tb in size, so it take a bit.

Then run a malware scan with another piece of software, just for a second opinion - I'd recommend Malwarebtes anti-malware free edition - as it might find traces that ESET doesn't; no single piece of security software can catch all threats.

Once you are sure that your machine is clean, go into System Restore, switch it off and reboot Windows - this will remove all previous restore points and prevent you inadvertently restoring to an infected state. Once the machine has rebooted, switch System Restore back on, create a new restore point and reboot the system again - you now have a clean machine with a clean restore point.

Next, ESET scan any other devices that get attached to the computer via LAN or usb, e.g. thumbdrives, external drives, smartphones, etc., to make sure that you have nothing that is acting as an infected carrier for malware.

Hi James. I unfortunatly have N O T been able to remove this pesky issue. It has not spread to any other drive, but when I do a full scan, and eset removes all infections, withing a week or 2, it starts to pop up again. I have even spent the entire evening going thru my folder trees and removing ANY file that wasnt needed. Really pesky issue.

nothing. When i do a full drive scan, it locates the infections, cleans them. I run it again and zero infections are found. Then, a few days later, the SCR files start popping up again in the various subfolders. I keep the file view sorted by "date modified" so I can easily tell when its starting up again. Then I just do a full scan.

Sounds to me like you are scanning the 'drive' that the nas is presenting to your windows machine, which likely does not include the NAS OS. I understand this might be difficult due to what the OS chooses to allow you to share.

One way to be sure you know where the infection is coming from would be to check your router at home, you should be able to list all devices connected (check manufacturer instructions) which will help you be sure there isn't a pesky laptop sitting under a bed connected to wifi.. or a neighbor with evil intent.. If nothing is showing up there that you've not scanned all drives for... then (as suggested previously) you should turn off FTP on your NAS device. The infection you have spreads via FTP, if you turn off the FTP service on your NAS device the only way it can infect it's self is via it's self.. if you can narrow it down to definitely being on the device, but cannot allow ESET to scan the OS.. you need to contact the Manufacturer of your NAS device to find out how to allow you to scan it with a virus scanner.

The scr files you're finding are not the infection it's self, but rather a sign of the infection (like a fever is not an illness just the sign of one), cleaning those will not clean the infection -- you need to find the source. it's accessing your NAS via FTP using default passwords.. either internally (the nas OS) or externally (a different computer with access to the files).

I'm currently using Photos for all my photos stored on my Mac. As my library grows, it's become a problem on my 1TB internal drive on my MacBook, and having the entire library in iCloud is compounding the problem across multiple devices.

I want to use my iCloud account to maintain the last two years of photos online and accessible across all my devices, but anything older than this, I want to move onto an external drive. (Basically I want to archive my older photos for offline storage) and then, every January, archive the photos from the second oldest year), so I'm only ever maintaining 1-2 years worth of photos synced across devices on iCloud.

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