Okay, so today I’m gonna walk you through my little adventure with Sandor Szabo. I was messing around with some image processing stuff, trying to make some old photos look a bit better, and stumbled upon some resources about him.
First things first, I started by just gathering a bunch of images. I mean, you can’t really do anything without something to work with, right? I grabbed a bunch of old family photos that were scanned in years ago. Some of them were in terrible condition, faded, scratched, the whole shebang.
Next up, I dove into some online tutorials and documentation about image restoration techniques. I figured Sandor Szabo’s stuff probably uses some similar principles, so might as well get a handle on the basics. I started with simple stuff like adjusting brightness and contrast using GIMP, just to get a feel for things.
Then, I moved onto tackling the noise and scratches. I found a few cool filters and tools that helped a lot. One was a median filter which seemed to blur out the speckles and stuff. Another one involved some frequency domain manipulation, which was a little over my head, but hey, I gave it a shot. The results were kinda hit-or-miss, to be honest.
After that, I wanted to try something fancier. I experimented with some AI-powered image enhancement tools. There are a bunch of websites and apps that claim to magically restore old photos. Some were surprisingly good, but others just made the photos look… weird. Like, overly sharpened and fake-looking.
Here’s a quick rundown of the steps I took:
- Gathered a bunch of old, scanned photos.
- Did some basic adjustments in GIMP (brightness, contrast, color balance).
- Applied noise reduction filters.
- Tried out some AI-powered image enhancement tools.
- Compared the results and tweaked things manually.
Honestly, it was a bit of a mixed bag. Some photos turned out really well, and others… not so much. But it was a fun learning experience, and I definitely got a better understanding of image processing techniques. Still got a long way to go before I’m pulling off anything like Sandor Szabo, but hey, gotta start somewhere, right?
So yeah, that’s my Sandor Szabo-inspired image restoration adventure. Hope it was helpful, or at least mildly entertaining!