Ask post: Help Me Restore The Past

This is definitely a time-consuming job ahead of you, if you actually want to restore the photograph to pristine conditions.

I'm going to have to agree with davetill and recommend touching it up bit by bit if you're that comfortable with Photoshop, and using several layers. Save different versions, if you need to.

As to what you want to start from, try putting a layer mask over the image that will look like it's grayscale, which will still allow... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by juliebug at 6:15 PM on October 6, 2007

Ask post: How to prove an online lie?

Pollo - we all helped her out with her character. In-game money, lots of time spent, that sort of thing. I'm not looking to reclaim these things, I just want to prevent her from screwing with the heads of those who are more gullible than I. It's more like just not giving her the attention she's obviously wanting, but as long as she's in my guild, she has a hundred people to give her pity and sympathy and attention.

As Sallyfur says, I don't want to sit in her audience,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by juliebug at 2:12 AM on November 7, 2006

antifuse - Ultimately, no, it doesn't matter to any of you, it doesn't matter to the world at large, and it doesn't matter to 99.99% of the people who play WoW.

But it matter to me, it matters to some people I can call friends and I would like to make sure she doesn't continue to try to get attention/sympathy from us.

This line of questioning is primarily to see if people can think of checking out anything I haven't, rather than debating the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by juliebug at 2:31 AM on November 7, 2006

I really never meant for this to become a discussion of whether or not this "mattered" to the rest of the world, because frankly, I don't care if it does or if it doesn't matter to you. It matters to me because it matters to 100 or so members of my guild. I've dealt with someone faking their own death in an online community before, some years ago, but it was a lot easier to get IP addresses and match them up because it was a mailing list. I'm just wondering if there's anything else I... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by juliebug at 5:20 AM on November 8, 2006