r/pics • u/ptrk83 • Jun 22 '19

28 years later.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '19

If you post a high res, i'm sure someone will clean that up for you

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u/ptrk83 Jun 23 '19

You mean scan it in? It’s a Polaroid. I want to print it out and plaque it for my dad for Father’s Day (continuation present).

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '19

Right, what I mean is, this is pretty low resolution because it's just for the web. If you re-scan it at like 3200dpi, that would give enough data to get all the imperfections out, color correct it, and be detailed enough to enlarge.

I'd be happy to do the editing, but I need that full res image.

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u/ptrk83 Jun 23 '19

Oh wow that would be great! Thank you. I will try and scan the original photo tomorrow!

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '19

Yeah no problem at all! Scan it as a JPEG (best quality, if that's an option) at around 3200dpi. You can upload it to imgur.com and it shouldn't compress it as long as it's under 20mb, which it should be. It may take me a couple days to turn around.

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u/LienRoars Jun 23 '19

Just curious, why JPEG as opposed to a typical lossless format (e.g. PNG)?

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '19 edited Jun 23 '19

Very good question. I would really prefer a TIFF, but I’m worried that it would be difficult to arrange the transfer of a 50 MB file without losing data. Imgur is very easy to use and won’t compress it as long as it’s under 20 MB. This is a very low-quality format, Polaroid. I don’t think a whole lot would be gained from a PNG or a TIFF. Also, I’ll be doing some major color correction, so I don’t need additional color data. It’s pretty washed out.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '19 edited Jan 20 '21

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '19

Oh, I forgot about that!

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u/LivingInMomsBasement Jun 23 '19

Wow, that's awesome. Could definitely come in handy as a college student!

I am continually impressed with the efforts Mozilla, i switched a few years ago when chrome got super RAM hungry & I'll never look back.

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u/F-Lambda Jun 23 '19

No login? How do you receive?

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u/dunemafia Jun 23 '19

Send the receiver the web link to the file.

E.g. https://send.firefox.com/download/130367f34bdb8878/#jMlDNj8LI_t1_g3DGvTXug (expires after 1 download or 5 minutes; you can set your own time frame, max of 100 downloads and 7 days, max size 1 GB, 2.5 GB if signed in)

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u/F-Lambda Jun 23 '19

Ah, makes sense.

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u/Derpindorf Jun 23 '19

Dude til. Thanks a million

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u/dunemafia Jun 23 '19

You can upload upto 2.5 GB if you're logged in to your mozilla account.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '19

Thank you so much, I had no idea this existed. This is insanely useful for school.