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Belated thanks

I rarely do that, but here it is long overdue - thank you. The dezomify script that you wrote for extracting www.gahetna.nl images helped providing many hundreds, or maybe thousands of valuable photographs for multiple wikimedia projects. Anefo is expanding their CC-BY content (e.g., they've added color images under toegang 2.24.01.06 and 2.24.01.07, as well as a large new package of 2.24.01.03 images), and thus the work is on-going. Regards. Materialscientist (talk) 05:03, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Glad to hear it has been useful! : ) I will integrate this capability into the main dezoomify version (the one on SF) as soon as possible. Quibik (talk) 23:56, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

One more comment on that script. I have complained in the past that on Win 7 (64 bit) it was stumbling and retrieving a photo per hour as a result. Meanwhile, it was working fine on 32 bit windows machines within the same network. I have fixed that today on my PC by performing windows updates - something in the recent update package unlocked python. Materialscientist (talk) 02:22, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Oh, wow, thanks for letting me know. That speedup is mind-boggling (about 500× for me). I suspect that Windows Defender or a similar mechanism has now stopped over-eagerly scanning jpegtran and/or the intermediate input-output images at every single one of the thousand or so untiling steps. Quibik (talk) 14:49, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Oil cleansing method

Hello Quibik. I have recently nominated Oil cleansing method, an article on which you have worked, for deletion. I request your input here. Thanks! - Sweet Nightmares 05:09, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

FFT filter

Hi Quibik! Hope you're well. Season's greetings and all that. (Bah humbug!) Do you fancy taking a crack at this? nagualdesign (talk) 01:13, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Perfect! Thank you. nagualdesign (talk) 04:39, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

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File:Félix Nadar 1820-1910 portraits Jules Verne (restoration).jpg

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Hi Quibik, Please could you remove the halftone pattern from this image of Friedrich Nietzsche. I can do the other touch-ups, unless you want to have at it. Kind regards, nagualdesign 00:43, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

St George the Hagiorite

And could you also see what can be done with this image? Thanks. nagualdesign 19:03, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi nagualdesign! Thanks for reminding me about the previous request, I wanted to do it but simply forgot to put it on my todo list. I cleaned up the noise on both of the images. —Quibik (talk) 19:57, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

A perfect job, as always. Thank you again. Kind regards, nagualdesign 23:13, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

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Help

I searched and found that you can remove watermarks. I have nominated Shaina NC for GA. I request you to remove watermark from atleast one image. I use mobile and it is impossible for me to download some software to remove watermarks. Thanks! Abhi (talk) 04:12, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank you very much, Quibik ! I am indeed very glad. Thanks ! Abhi (talk) 17:20, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Halftone pattern

Hi Quibik! Would you mind taking a stab at File:Luther Severance.jpg? If you can remove the halftone pattern from the original upload, I can do the rest. I realize it's a poor quality image to begin with, but I thought with your kid gloves we might be able to make a better job of it. Regards, nagualdesign 20:04, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Sorry Quibik

1000 apologies for the recent brouhaha. I would never have asked you to get involved if I'd known that was going to happen. Unfortunately I didn't fare very well trying to defend you either, and you'd already handled the situation admirably. In future I'll try to think twice before posting requests, or my two cents. And thank you for completing the request. Kind regards, nagualdesign 01:08, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Great! Omar David Hernandez Mena (talk) 14:51, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Extraction help needed

Hi Quibik, I asked Materialscientist for assistance in downloading original photo versions from the Dutch National Archive (www.gahetna.nl). He pointed me to a Python script you wrote for that purpose. I tried it out but can not get it to function properly on my computer (W7 32bit). See his Talk page for the details. Any chance you can help me along? Thx, --Wolbo (talk) 01:34, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

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Updated scripts

Hi Quibik. I edited your monobook.js and your vector.js to update you to the latest version of TemplateScript. You were using a much older version called regex menu framework, so the main difference you'll see (if you uncomment the script) is an improved regex editor and cleaner custom scripts. I also updated deprecated functions and made your scripts HTTPS-compatible. Let me know if anything breaks, or if you'd like help migrating the scripts into your common.js. :) —Pathoschild 02:53, 09 August 2015 (UTC)

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Agerpres watermarks

{{PD-RO-photo}} allows downloading recent Romanian images, and agerpres.ro provides a large and reliable database, but. They give two choices - a clean thumbnail, which is too narrow (I need 240px or more in width), or a wider watermarked image, where the watermark pattern varies and is not that easy to remove. Have a look at a characteristic example [1]. It says the original is 1201 x 1743 px, while they offer 413 x 600 px max for download. Questions:

1. Do you see any way to get to a better image version on their website (almost all photos there are unique and are not available elsewhere).
2. If not, what is the watermarking method? Googling will quickly bring agerpres images with watermarks on a nearly uniform black background, which might give a clue (I understand that watermark removal will not work well at low resolution, but this might be better than removal from scratch). Regards. Materialscientist (talk) 07:19, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

I don't see a way to access any higher-resolution versions either.

There's a small number of different watermarks used there. Some of them are placed consistently in all images (e.g. [2], [3]), some aren't (the ones like [4] vary in size and move around by a few pixels in each image). For the consistent ones it is probably possible to recover the watermark and use it for removal. It's possible to do so by scraping a reasonably large number of images bearing that watermark, scaling the thumbnail image to match the watermarked's size, cropping and then doing some sort of robust linear regression on them. That will probably recover the watermark quite well. Nevertheless, since all of the images are heavily compressed and the watermarks are quite opaque in some places, so there is still going to be a lot of noisy artifacts remaining after removal even with a perfectly recovered watermark.

This sounds like a small, fun project. I don't have time for it right now, but I might give it a shot if a weekend happens to be free and I'm in the mood. Or is this something you would like to try perhaps? You can always ping me for help. —Quibik (talk) 08:09, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

A gave it a try yesterday. I could extract a relatively clean watermark, but could not see the watermarking method, upon a quick look, and thus came here (glad to see you are still around :). Materialscientist (talk) 08:35, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

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FFT filter

Hi Quibik!

I hope you're well. I've found another image that I think would benefit from your delicate touch. I've been marking the odd image with {{CleanFFT}} but I thought I'd bring this one to the boss.

Enjoy! nagualdesign 00:28, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

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File:Fauré-by-Eugéne-Pirou.jpg

Happy New year, Quibik! Do you think there's anything you could do with File:Fauré-by-Eugéne-Pirou.jpg? I'm not sure if it's the sort of thing that's suited to FFT filtering but the noise is periodic, so I thought I'd ask. I'm happy to do the spot fixes, unless you'd like to do them. I've recently updated most of the images at Maurice Ravel, and this one's the last ugly image. I've already looked and no other version of this image is available. nagualdesign 18:35, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi, Nagualdesign, and happy new year to you too! I cleaned it up. Let me know if there's anything that needs tweaking. I really enjoy this type of work from time to time, so thanks for the request, no problem. If you're curious, this kind of noise is quite easy to clean up with FFT if you first separate the relevant noise by apply bilateral filtering to the image and then doing 'grain extract' between that layer and the original. —Quibik (talk) 19:26, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Cracking job, as always. Thank you. nagualdesign 20:03, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

I don't think I'll ever get to your standards when it comes to FFT filtering (and my filters have gone missing sometime in the last 12 months) but I'm glad you reminded be about bilateral filtering (called "Surface Blur" in Photoshop, right?) as I'd completely stopped using it! I used it to help polish off File:Fauré-by-Eugéne-Pirou.jpg to good effect. Incidentally, do you know a good resource for downloading Photoshop plug-ins? nagualdesign 21:41, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

File:Mussorgsky letter to Stasov June 1974.jpg

Another one for you: File:Mussorgsky letter to Stasov June 1974.jpg. No rush. nagualdesign 00:44, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Bump. (In case you missed it.) nagualdesign 02:43, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

File:TsetereliFotografíasCárcelDeMetejiTiflis1904.png

This one's currently at the Photography workshop, but I thought it would be better if you could remove the moiré pattern first: File:TsetereliFotografíasCárcelDeMetejiTiflis1904.png. Regards, nagualdesign 22:47, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

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File:Nigeria.JPG

Hi Quibik! Here's an interesting one for you: File:Nigeria.JPG (the original) has a colour moiré pattern. I had a go at it by recolouring the image before cleaning up the edges, but I think you could probably work some FFT magic. All the best, nagualdesign 07:07, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

...I see that you haven't been active since July. I do hope you're okay. nagualdesign 07:08, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi nagualdesign! I'm alive and well, just not particularly active anymore. Don't mind doing an occasional moire/halftone removal still, though. I touched up the image a bit further. —Quibik (talk) 20:00, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Good to hear. Another job well done, thank you. nagualdesign 03:00, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

More moiré

Hi Quibik, I saw this discussion over on Commons and thought you might be interested. All the best, nagualdesign 00:35, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

Here's a link to the best quality original image. nagualdesign 00:44, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

There's also File:Joe Biden in 1965 Edition of Blue Hen Yearbook.jpg which you may be able to improve upon. nagualdesign 02:29, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

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There is a change in logo, which has to be updated. I have updated the source but I am unable to update the logo.

The new logo you can find on this website: https://www.keil.com/Content/images/Arm_KEIL_horizontal_white_LG.png Smitshah99 (talk) 21:31, 25 January 2024 (UTC)