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The Graphics Lab is a project to improve the graphical content of the Wikimedia projects. Requests for image improvements can be added to the workshop pages: Illustrations, Photographs and Maps. For questions or suggestions one can use the talk pages: Talk:Graphics Lab, Talk:Illustrations, Talk:Photographs and Talk:Maps.
This specific page is the requests page for the photography workshop. Anyone can make a request for a photograph to be improved for a Wikipedia article. The standard format for making a request is shown below, along with general advice, and should be followed.

Advice to requesters

All requests:

Please make sure your request is "legitimate" by copyright. If the image(s) are in the public domain or freely licensed, you are fine. If the image(s) are "Fair use", there are only certain things we can do with them without falling afoul of Wikipedia's fair-use policies.
- If you are requesting assistance with a copyright or fair-use image, don't display it on this page; place {{GLNF|Example.png|caption|align=left}} to create a link to it. Do not add the File: extension. Our fair-use policy does not allow displaying fair-use images out of their articles on ANY account.
Please check back regularly to see if progress has been made or if any additional questions need to be answered before the request can be completed.
If a request is done to your satisfaction, please mark it with {{resolved}}.

SVG requests:

Make sure your request can actually BE vectorized. Note that vector drawings are not suitable for certain applications. We generally use SVG format for icons, logos, drawings, maps, flags, and such. Certain things, photographs especially, are totally impossible to vectorize.
Per our non-free content policy, vectorization of copyrighted images is not permitted. If a vectorized non-free image is desired, seek out such an image from the copyright holder.

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For graphists:

Marks on images

Stale

– DyceBot (talk) 07:00, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done
Done
Done

Article(s): Temple of Literature, Hanoi, Hán tự, Meran Tramway

Request: Please remove watermarks on images, but do not remove by just cropping the image. Gryffindor (talk) 20:41, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please check on the first image? Somehow the colours seem to be brighter and better in the previous version, the one now seems grayish? Thank you. Gryffindor (talk) 19:55, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The colors in the images are identical. If you place one image on top of the other and switch back and forth between the two, you can see the differences. The watermark disappears, a few spots on his robe disappear, but the colors remain the same. Perhaps you're getting some sort of optical illusion. If you view two images side by side that can happen. JBarta (talk) 20:38, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No I swear, the versions look different, I have compared them next to each other. The current one is more grayish and less colourful, the previous version has more colour and more contrast. Gryffindor (talk) 23:37, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I picked three random pixels from the images and compared their RGB values (red-green-blue). If one image was grayer, duller or in any way shaded differently than the other, these values would be (significantly) different between the images. Below are the results...

pixel	RGB current image	RGB previous image
1518,4038	222-41-24	222-41-24
2874,978	203-183-84	203-183-86
1386,1524	156-122-97	156-122-97

Anyone may check these three or any other pixels and make their own determination. I'm not sure what you're seeing or why, but I hope the above effort convinces you (or any curious onlookers) that the the colors of the two images are in fact identical. JBarta (talk) 04:11, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ok that's really weird then... can anyone give some advice? Gryffindor (talk) 21:03, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know, what kind of advice are you looking for? "Should have gone to specsavers"? ;). Both the images look the same to me. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 07:11, 9 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):

James David Forbes/John Lee

Article(s): James David Forbes, John Lee (university principal)

Request: Remove watermark. Thanks. Connormah (talk) 02:23, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):

Done If you have any other images from the same site, let me know. —Quibik (talk) 17:25, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ideally, the picture on the left would have a transparent background instead of the white one. Is this possible? Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:38, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done Created a transparent version. —Quibik (talk) 00:27, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Vlora war

Stale

– DyceBot (talk) 07:00, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please color and improve

Article(s): Vlora war

Request: Please color and improve Vinie007 15:54, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):

I didn't color or improve, but I did crop the border. I suppose any old photo can be "improved"... to a degree. But why colorize? Who's to say we'd even get the colors right? Black & white is not a defect to be "fixed". It's simply a characteristic of many old photos. JBarta (talk) 20:07, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

request for removal of possible artifact from: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Meehan_Range_and_Old_Beach.jpg

Stale

– DyceBot (talk) 07:00, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article(s): [Old Beach, Tasmania]

Request: Please identify if the faint image enclosed by the following co-ordinates is an artifact, and if it is, can it be removed?: -

18600,180 18600,220 18830,180 18830,220

Suspected artifact seems to be a ghost image of trees, just above and to the left of the highest mountain peak

Graphist opinion(s):

My guess is that it's a trace of clouds. You can see something similar at 2296,1140. Whatever it was, I removed it, but was unable to upload the new version due to the following error:

This page is currently protected from editing because it is transcluded in the following page, which is protected with the "cascading" option enabled:

User:Krinkle/enwiki mainpage/core

Glorious little waste of time. JBarta (talk) 15:16, 9 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mongolyn Skautyn Kholboo

Article(s): Mongolyn Skautyn Kholboo

Request: can anything be done to deblur this?... Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 13:37, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):

Scout Association of Hong Kong

Article(s): Scout Association of Hong Kong

Request: remove green background or change to black... Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 13:41, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):

Done Personally, I think the patches look better with the green background. The replacement image I uploaded is derived from the original image. I also uploaded a separate version with a black background. Use whichever you wish. JBarta (talk) 05:04, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

David Hayes Kincheloe

Kentucky Congressman David Hayes Kincheloe

Article(s): David Hayes Kincheloe

Request: The original from the LOC shows damage of some sort. Not a graphics person, so I don't know how much can be done to clean it up, but I'd appreciate someone taking a shot at it. Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 00:19, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):

I've done something and got enough of this image. Someone who can paint (or photoshop) better can certainly improve it, especially face. Materialscientist (talk) 12:03, 18 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much. This is a great improvement. I would love for someone to see if they can further improve the face, since it's probably the most important part of the image, but it already looks WAY better. I envy you graphics folks! Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 13:17, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Photo quality improvement

Last Governor-General of India C. Rajagopalachari at his desk

Last Governor-General of India C. Rajagopalachari at his desk

Article(s): C. Rajagopalachari

Request: This is a picture of C. Rajagopalachari, the last Governor-General of India. This image was previously used in the article on Rajagopalachari but I removed it once the article failed a GA with "bad quality images" being one of the reasons. The photo is pretty old and is scanned from a 1948 issue of a Tamil magazine. Can anyone do something to improve its quality so that I can add the image once again to the article and go for a GA nom - The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 07:06, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):

Done Materialscientist (talk) 07:27, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot :-)-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 08:15, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I re-did the noise removal as the halftone dots can be got rid of quite nicely using FFT. It could still use some levels/contrast adjustments, I guess. —Quibik (talk) 15:41, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've tried a few combinations of FFT and despeckle tools in various order here, and the FFT was giving worse results - theoretically it should be better, but I guess it depends on how to remove the dots in the FFT image. Materialscientist (talk) 23:30, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Revome folding line

A sea battle

Article(s): Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov

Request: Please remove folding line Andres rojas22 (talk) 16:40, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):

Done:Regards Tamba52 (talk) 10:40, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kawananakoa

Resolved

Article(s): David Kawananakoa

Request: Clean and improve the background, and suit if possible; it's light at some areas and dark at some. Remove weird whitish spot around his mustache (the current pic makes it look as if he had bread crumbs stuck in his beard).--KAVEBEAR (talk) 02:26, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Anybody?

Done. Materialscientist (talk) 08:10, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):

Portrait of Thomas Moran

Portrait of the artist Thomas Moran by the photographer Napoleon Sarony

Article(s):

Request: Please trim the edges and crop appropriately. Many thanks, as always. MarmadukePercy (talk) 04:19, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Much improved. Many thanks! MarmadukePercy (talk) 05:05, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):

Done. I would crop tighter, but left the text below the photo. Materialscientist (talk) 04:52, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Super-rare, high-historical-value image in need of your restoration magic (hi-res Flat Earth map!)

A flat Earth map, drawn by Orlando Ferguson in 1893

Article(s): Flat Earth, possibly others

Request: There's so much that needs that needs to be done. Removing those "folding creases", sharpening, color work, rotation, etc... With some work this could probably be a featured image! Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:36, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s): While I would certainly take on the task of giving this image some work, it may be worth waiting for a few days, perhaps a weeks for the Library of Congress to add the map to their digital archive as they may add an even higher-res version. At the moment the image is only available from third party sources, would be a shame to start work on it only to find a better version being released. I'll try and keep an eye out for it and if no better image emerges I'll work on this copy, as its still pretty high quality. Regards, Fallschirmjäger ✉ 15:47, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Cool. I'll check in from time to time if you have any updates. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:37, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fallschirmjäger, how do you know the LofC will add this image to their archive? JBarta (talk) 19:16, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't but with something this significant it's likely they will, worth waiting a few days imho, just in case. Regards, Fallschirmjäger ✉ 19:33, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New Haven buildings

Print by Miss Alice Donlevy, ca. 1880

Article(s):

Request: Please remove watermark. Thank you, as always. MarmadukePercy (talk) 08:56, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):

Ryan Dunn

Article(s): Ryan Dunn

Request: can this be lightened or sharpened for detail?... Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 09:28, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):

Francisco Solano López

Francisco Solano López, dictator of Paraguay
Francisco Solano López, dictator of Paraguay
Francisco Solano López, dictator of Paraguay

Article(s): Francisco Solano López

Request: Hi, everyone. First and most importantly, please improve the quality of all three photos (mainly the third one, in profile). Next, remove the frame of the first photo and create a translucid background in a new .png file such as in this photo. Do the same with the third picture. There is a bluish tone around the background of the second photo (the one in the middle). Can it be removed? Perhaps an all white background? Kind regards and thanks, Lecen (talk) 16:48, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):

make background black

Article(s): Caligula

Request: Please make the background around the object black. Gryffindor (talk) 21:33, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):

photo flesh tones for Molly Quinn

Original [now corrected] image of Quinn

Article(s): Molly C. Quinn

Request: The flesh tones in this photo seem to be purply and I was wondering if they could be corrected or adjusted. Thanks in advance! — Fourthords | =/\= | 05:19, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s): Request taken by MissMJ.

Aww, Molly! She's so adorable on Castle. I'll see what I can do. -MissMJ (talk) 23:11, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How's this? -MissMJ (talk) 23:27, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That's so much nicer! Thanks! — Fourthords | =/\= | 02:51, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

re-angle

Article(s): South Tyrol

Request: Please re-angle the left side of the map, the scan seems to drop off. Gryffindor (talk) 22:31, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):

Done Materialscientist (talk) 23:49, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Glare

Article(s): Kaiulani

Request: Remove glare and improve in anyway.---KAVEBEAR (talk) 03:35, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):

Done. My current screen is unbalanced for intensity, thus I'm not sure about brightness. Materialscientist (talk) 04:12, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Neck stiffness.jpg - please remove moiré

Resolved

– Quibik (talk)

neck stiffness, 1913

Article(s): Meningitis

Request: Please remove moiré, thank you. Polarlys (talk) 11:19, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):

Done —Quibik (talk) 13:23, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! :) --Polarlys (talk) 13:46, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hidatsa people

Resolved

– Kintetsubuffalo (talk)

Article(s): Hidatsa people

Request: remove border... Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 15:06, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):

Done That was an unusually faint border. I cropped it a little tighter than just the border. JBarta (talk) 19:27, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 20:59, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Photo retouching

Old picture of parents

Old picture of parents

Article(s): Brazil

Request: I shot this picture of a photo frame of my friend's parents. I want to crop the frame out and then adjust the colours in the picture to remove the colour cast and make it look as real as possible. 59.95.15.207 (talk) 19:37, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):

What article is this for? How is this picture useful to illustrate anything on Wikipedia? This sounds like a personal request, which is not what Graphic Lab is for. -MissMJ (talk) 23:33, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

May I know who you are to ask? Are you interested to contribute here or are you just a troll who is here to criticise? If its the latter, please take your shop somewhere else. I'm not interested. This is a personal request because this is something very important for me. If the whole wikimedia community has volunteers who are happy to improve images at their own free will. Why don't we let them decide whether they want to fix this picture or not? This is a democratic site and you are no one to question me and I am no one to question anyone else. Most of these volunteers do this for practice - to encounter various scenarios which will help them learn more and be better. Therefore, I don't think we need to moderate postings here. Finally, I'd like to say that if you are happy to help me out on this picture, I would really be grateful. If you think its inappropriate of me to post this picture here and you have nothing to contribute, please don't. I would really want to keep the trolls away, please. Ganeshrg (talk) 02:42, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not done FYI, I would consider taking this assignment, but I shall definitely pass after reading your note above. Materialscientist (talk) 03:18, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

@Materialscientist: I would request you to kindly reconsider and take up this assignment. I have written to you on your talk page explaining my comment. I would appreciate it when people here on an open democratic platform are more polite and helpful towards each other. Walking around with a stick ordering people how to behave is really not appreciated. This is a request and I have explained myself well enough so I don't see the point of this person coming up and dictating rules to me. I would understand that there are rules and would follow them normally but I certainly do not appreciate big brothers ordering people around here regardless of how much they contribute on graphics lab. Contributing to a few assignments here doesn't automatically make anyone a higher authority than the next person. Ganeshrg (talk) 06:52, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

@Ganeshrg: Wikipedia isn't able to save the world. Voluntary work is a rare thing, and so it's a gift. The few contributions have a priority list ... You can ask for a gift, not more ... By the way, democracy isn't about "getting dumb cheap labour" or exchanging King Louis XVI with the "guillotine" or exchanging Tsar Nicholas II of Russia with "Lennin/ Stalin" ... This kind of subterfuge makes me sick ... And Wikipedia isn't an "open democratic platform", but a human encyclopedia/ database with some good qualities, some of them are very rare (interwiki links, high resolution images, hyperlinks) ... A society is able to build something up when mercy prevails, and an encyclopedia/ database needs a hierarchy ... --Chris.urs-o (talk) 08:19, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

@Chris: I agree with everything you say but I hope you agree with what I said about the tone a person should use. There are polite ways to say things and impolite way to say the very same things. I wasn't too amused by the confrontational big-brother attitude that the first poster used and I wrote back conveying my annoyance. I also believe that Wikipedia and Wikimedia are the best examples of democracy in fact. You have a right to say what you want - if the majority doesn't like it, your voice is overwritten by others but you can say whatever you like nonetheless. I also believe that if a graphics expert here doesn't have a problem with helping someone with personal images, why should anyone else have a problem? Ganeshrg (talk) 10:31, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please tell me, how did you hear what tone I was using? How could you tell I wrote my message with a "confrontational big-brother attitude"? Did I say, "How dare you put personal requests here?! Remove this at once!!!"? No. I was asking simple questions—how is this image useful? what article would it go in?—because I was confused. Maybe this image really was of educational value and I was missing it. Who am I to ask? A volunteer here, trying to figure out which request I should spend my limited time on (as is every graphist here). And I noted that to me this sounded like a request for personal work, and let you know, in case you weren't aware, that requests for retouching work on personal photographs isn't what Graphic Lab is for. If I was mistaken and the image was of educational value, you had a chance to point it out. If not, you could have still said all that you did above—that this is important to you and that you are looking for a graphist to do a personal request—without jumping down my throat and accusing me of trolling. I don't have time to write every one of my messages with flowery, polite language in the off chance somebody will get huffy about them. When someone is asking you a question or letting you know something, please assume good faith. -MissMJ (talk) 21:09, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

@Ganeshrg: Ok, but personal requests should go to a personal talk page/ email instead ;) --Chris.urs-o (talk) 11:03, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

While you kids prattle on in true Wikipedian style, I made a half-baked attempt at an improvement. Almost certainly someone can do better. To the original requester... you might wish to check out this photo restoration service. JBarta (talk) 16:36, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

@Jbarta: That is a GREAT attempt, honestly. Thank you so very much. Could you please tell me what you did to improve this? I just found a higher 12MP resolution version of this and I don't want to trouble you and ask you to do it again so maybe I can give it a shot myself if you could tell me how you did it. :) Ganeshrg (talk) 18:36, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I just fiddled with the color levels until I got something that looked ok. And believe me, my results are amateurish at best. If you need a good graphics app, GIMP is a good choice (and it's free). Give a whirl. JBarta (talk) 18:56, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

@Jbarta: I am trying to get something done on GIMP using the colour levels. I'm still unable to get the nice pink skin tone that you seem to have brought out.

Remove caption, File:Alfalfa hay, 1915.jpg

Alfalfa hay on wagons, 1915

Article(s): Brazil

Request: Can someone remove the handwritten caption? Also wouldn't hurt to trim the ragged margins. TIA, Pete Tillman (talk) 19:55, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):

Done: JBarta (talk) 20:11, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please restore this $2,300,000 image!

Article(s): Billy the Kid

Request: Please restore. Remove artifacts & age related wear & tear. Have fun! Scewing (talk) 01:50, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):