Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Grant of arms2.jpg

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File:Grant of arms2.jpg, featured[edit]

Voting period ends on 4 Sep 2009 at 18:58:51 (UTC)
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  •  Info created by anonymous - uploaded by Durova - nominated by Durova. Restored from File:Grant of arms.jpg by Durova. -- Durova (talk) 18:58, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Info Illustration from a sixteenth century grant of arms signed by Philip II of Spain. Digitized directly from the original manuscript.
  •  Support -- Durova (talk) 18:58, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Question I think this is a highly valuable historic illustration, and fascinating to look at. I have been looking carefully at the original scan and also your partially restored version where you have not yet brightened it up as much in the colors. The change in colors seems dramatic in your last step. The red colors are really red, and the somewhat blue-grey steel? swordsarm in the original is more clearly blue (further from the original?). I realize that the pigments in the original has fainted during all those years, but how do you "dose" the color correction? Is it by-eye or via a more systematic approach? I guess your objective is to get as close as possible to how it was when the manuscript was written? For me it seems like you have been very bold in putting your own interpretation in the last color step. So bold that I get the impression that there is a risk of adding too much of your own guess at the original colors. Personally, I think I have a greater affection for the colors in the partially restored version. They may not be as colorful as in the nominated image, but perhaps more true? I am aware though that I am not terribly knowledgeable about the area, and I would be interested in hearing what your comments are to those observations--Slaunger (talk) 20:40, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Most of the difference comes not from the color adjustment but from the curves adjustment. The brightest data point on the original is at 211; data is minimal between 23 and 202. In context it makes historic sense that the colors would be brilliant: this was a royal grant signed by a king which used the most expensive pigments of its era. Durova (talk) 21:36, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      •  Support Thank you for the explanation. I suppose it is well sourced that the king used the most expensive pigments in its era? Very nice image and very professional restoration. --Slaunger (talk) 07:13, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support per Durova's explanation - colours certainly seem right compared to other things I've seen. Adam Cuerden (talk) 01:25, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Another great restoration. -- JovanCormac 06:24, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support very good result -George Chernilevsky (talk) 12:32, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support--Two+two=4 (talk) 12:34, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Mbdortmund (talk) 21:49, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- GerardM (talk) 17:30, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 8 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Slaunger (talk) 21:15, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Historical
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