Question for Website TECH Genius Wizards with Graphics Experience.

10.17.12 | Chickensoup

[Chickensoup]

I have had a website for the past 12 years. A nice website that needs a revamping. I plan on firing her up and having fun next quarter.

I found a nice local guy who can revamp it onto a wordpress softwear package and he had some nice ideas to add to the design. Price of the revamp is resonalbe I think, in the 3K range but I do have to move to his host site. and I will be moving the content over onto wordpress once the skeleton is in place. It includes the training. I have about 150 pages.

I have a logo. It isnt very clear. The tech says he needs the original which was a 8x10 ssilhouette of me that was shrunk down to logo size (I was so cute!) He says I need to come up with the silhouette in order to upgrade it, it is a little murky. I have not been able to find the silhouette original. Is there a way that the current silhouette can be enhanced?

[Chickensoup]

The only password he will get is to Wordpress content management to allow him make small changes to the content but not change the theme or have control over his files.

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From what I understand, I am purchasing the wordpress and it is mine. I own it all. Whether I manage it is another story, but I own it all. Passwords and all.

[Uri’el-2012]

I still get your text and thumbnails displaying half-off the screen on left and right. And changing screen magnification doesn't fix it.

Thanks for the insight.

I moved the text & thumbnails to a different page.

Updated the site.

[numberonepal]

Gotta go to the pixel level for details. I’m not talking about letting the programs trace a bitmap.

[TXnMA]

FReepMail for you — and a “restored” profile silhouette via e-mail...

[TXnMA]

Here is one method of doing an "approximated restoration" of a degraded profile (done in "Canvas").

1. Left Image: Original: low resolution RGB with severe "aliasing" (AKA "jaggies")

2. Center Image: Processing Steps:
   1. Increased resolution

   2. Converted to grayscale

   3. Used "Gaussian Blur" filter to interpolate between "jaggies" to approximate original contour data.

3. Right Image: Adjusted "threshhold" to "trim" the profile by removing lighter grays to approximate the original contour.

It may be possible to produce a higher-fidelity, smoother restoration by "tweaking" the value of the gray level used for "trimming". Also, a different gaussian blur pixel range might produce a better approximation of the contour...

This is a first attempt; WYSIWYG! '-)

[Chickensoup]

Wow!

[Chickensoup]

Wow!

[Steely Tom]

Here's what VectorMagic did with the right-most image you posted: