Article(s): Cenk Uygur
Request: I think this nice image could be either cropped or filled in some of the background to reduce the corporate presence. Also, perhaps a little shadow work could even out the lighting. Thanks very much. Ocaasi c 22:26, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
I suggested File:Scedrin-Plisecka1.JPG, which apears on composer Rodion Shchedrin and elsewhere, for DYK and was told that it is too dark, not showing the faces. Can you improve it? Possibly under a new file name, as suggested by Michael Bednarek who wrote: "I think you will get much more competent assistance from the Wikipedia:Graphic Lab, particularly from the Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Photography workshop. As the image File:Scedrin-Plisecka1.JPG is used on many Wikipedias, I suggest not to overwrite the original but to upload it under a different name." -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:34, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Pindad SS2
Request: Can you convert them to .PNG ? Make sure there are no missing or scrapped parts. -- Kungfu2187 ( talk) 00:34, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): I assume the reason for the requested conversion is that you want a transparent background? Is that correct? JBarta ( talk) 01:09, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): IMI Tavor TAR-21, Bullpup
Request: This image needs to be enlarged and enhanced. Kungfu2187 ( talk) 09:44, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Images cannot actually be "enlarged and enhanced". Sure, you can double the size, but then you end up with a larger image of even lower quality. Your best bet is to leave it as it is, and if you want it displayed larger on the page, then just use the "size" attribute in the wiki markup. And of course, you could always get yourself a higher resolution image to play with. JBarta ( talk) 01:03, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
Done I went ahead and enlarged the image... File:25-zittara-carbine (enlarged).jpg. It's rather poor quality (you were warned), but if you can use it, great. JBarta ( talk) 19:24, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): IMI Tavor TAR-21
Request: Needing retextured and enhanced. Kungfu2187 ( talk) 12:10, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
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Article(s): Haakon VII of Norway
Request: Clean up, adjust contrast. Vearthy ( talk) 17:03, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Done Hope this is okay. – Kerαunoςcopia◁ gala xies 20:02, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
I took a shot at this. Started with the original from the U of T website. Adjusted brightness & contrast. Gamma-corrected it a little lighter. The original is pixelated (grainy) because of a low quality jpg scan (or poor conversion). Attempts to "smooth" such an image usually don't go very well. You end up with a "smoother" image, but you lose a lot of detail and the image just doesn't look right. Sort of a garbage in, garbage out situation. I think this slightly lightened image is perfectly presentable for an old photo. JBarta ( talk) 12:03, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Brink (video game)
Request: This image needs lighten and retextured. Kungfu2187 ( talk) 11:56, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
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Article(s): Maximilian of Mexico
Request: Can someone remove the noise and restore it? Maybe fix the lighting alittle. Spongie555 ( talk) 04:19, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
It actually does look somewhat restored. It differs significantly from the original Library of Congress version. For the most part, I think it's a fine image just as it is. JBarta ( talk) 05:36, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Pakistan Naval Station Mehran
Request: cut away background, pngify if warranted... Kintetsubuffalo ( talk) 11:43, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): I can't help but wonder where that background color scheme comes from. Are we sure it's not part of the logo? Can any other instances of that logo be found for verification? JBarta ( talk) 14:40, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Dvaravati, Thai ceramics
Request: Please make the background around the object black. Upload as different file though, keep original. Thank you. ps: please do not crop too much, try to keep some black space around the object. Gryffindor ( talk) 17:17, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Regarding File:National Museum Vietnamese History 86.jpg, I'm not so sure blackening the background would be an improvement. I think it's a fine photo just as it is. JBarta ( talk) 13:47, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Good Housekeeping, Homemaking, John Cecil Clay
Request: Fix horizontal alignment. Remove stains. General restoration. Cybercobra (talk) 10:29, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done: JBarta ( talk) 09:02, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Native Hawaiian
Request: Improve quality, remove noise, and clean up, crop it really well, and then joined them into one image File:Hawaiian Schoolchildren (ca. 1900).jpg. -- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 08:28, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Done-- Sisyphos23 ( talk) 20:32, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Naukane
Request: Improve quality and remove spots. Question is the the orange tinge on the second image natural? If not could that be fix too, but if it's natural don't change it.-- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 15:28, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Removed spots and changed the hue of the first image to lessen a slightly greenish cast. JBarta ( talk) 23:54, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Vlora war
Request: Please color and improve Vinie007 15:54, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
I didn't color or improve, but I did crop the border. I suppose any old photo can be "improved"... to a degree. But why colorize? Who's to say we'd even get the colors right? Black & white is not a defect to be "fixed". It's simply a characteristic of many old photos. JBarta ( talk) 20:07, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Lunalilo, Louis Désiré Maigret, Keelikōlani, Leleiohoku II, Liliuokalani
Request: Request above. Thanks. -- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 07:16, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
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Article(s): Buddhism in Nepal, Tlazolteotl, Etruscan art
Request: Please make background black, retain the 3x4 size of the image though and no need to crop. Gryffindor ( talk) 00:25, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done Finished all three! :) What do you think? -- Ophelia.summers ( talk) 10:50, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
Rotated. :) Please tell me if there's anything else I can do. --
Ophelia.summers (
talk) 11:24, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Edgerton W. Day (currently in userspace draft)
Request: Remove watermark. Thanks. Connormah ( talk) 22:34, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
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Article(s): Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Request: Retouch, remove scratches, maybe adjust levels/brightness? Thanks. Connormah ( talk) 21:33, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Done: Removed the major defects, but didn't get too crazy trying to remove all defects. Sometimes that just makes things worse. Adjusted brightness & contrast slightly. JBarta ( talk) 23:54, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Leonhard von Keutschach
Request: Please fix perspective. Gryffindor ( talk) 23:11, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done: JBarta ( talk) 04:11, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Edwin M. Stanton
Request: Sort of a big job, but anyone who can clean up this image a bit, It'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Connormah ( talk) 15:18, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done: JBarta ( talk) 13:24, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): William L. Walsh
Request: Remove watermark. Thanks. Connormah ( talk) 23:42, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Done This was a bit easier. Materialscientist ( talk) 10:44, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Ahmad Shah Qajar
Request: fix perspective and crop to encyclopedic... Kintetsubuffalo ( talk) 08:04, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done: JBarta ( talk) 07:34, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Little Octobrist
Request: trim away background and fix pitting... Kintetsubuffalo ( talk) 13:46, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Could you specify exactly what you mean by "fix pitting"? JBarta ( talk) 08:48, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Article(s):
Trần Dynasty
Request: Please fix perspective, crop... Gryffindor ( talk) 22:14, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
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Article(s): SIG SG 550
Request: Crop this image into his wielding weapon, the SIG SG 553 LB. Kungfu2187 ( talk) 02:12, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Done: JBarta ( talk) 05:47, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): William Eakin
Request: Remove watermark. Thanks. Connormah ( talk) 03:23, 25 May 2011 (UTC) Graphist opinion(s):
Request: Please crop. Thank you.
MarmadukePercy (
talk) 08:11, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Done: JBarta ( talk) 08:34, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
As per discussion below:
Article(s): Simon Plössl
Request: Please fix perspective... Gryffindor ( talk) 00:19, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
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Article(s): 127th (Parachute) Field Ambulance, 16th (Parachute) Field Ambulance and four more I am working on
Graphist opinion(s):
Done: All fixed up. JBarta ( talk) 14:09, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Order of Culture
Request: remove or reduce blue background... Kintetsubuffalo ( talk) 18:03, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
I didn't remove the blue, but I cropped it. A slight improvement. I didn't have much luck removing the background due to the low resolution of the image. The result looked terrible. JBarta ( talk) 22:01, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): James McBride (politician), Queen Emma of Hawaii, Kaahumanu IV, and Keelikolani
Request: Is there anyway to improve quality of the images and make the oval on Queen Emma's image complete? Also remove watermark on four image. -- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 02:47, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion:
Request 2: Could the background within the oval of the second image be clear out and could you make the oval more smooth and even on that image? And can the picture of James McBride be clean and clear up a little more? Thanks.-- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 07:23, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): James Hillhouse
Request: Please remove watermark, and any general clean-up you feel is an improvement. Many thanks. MarmadukePercy ( talk) 00:37, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done Materialscientist ( talk) 07:06, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole
Request: Is there anyway to remove the waterwork without any cropping at all? There is other images that have similar watermarks.-- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 04:34, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
Done: JBarta ( talk) 09:39, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
Request 2: These are the other images that have similar watermarks.-- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 04:34, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
see here - MissMJ ( talk) 17:39, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Pedro Alvares Cabral
Request: This reproduction of the painting has a "reddish" tone in it that makes the character's skin tone and clothes look oddly... reddish. The picture color should look like this other painting (by the same painter, BTW), which also despicts Cabral. My request is: could the color be fixed and match the other painting's color? The correct color scheme of this painting can be seen here. Thanks, Lecen ( talk) 14:32, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done: Not perfect, but an improvement. JBarta ( talk) 08:04, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
People, there really is no need to resort to smaller, lower quality images. JBarta's version just needed a bit of lightening and contrast adjustment. - MissMJ ( talk) 01:29, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Blair House
Request: Requesting that the temporary barrier in the bottom of the picture be removed. Thanks! SchuminWeb ( Talk) 03:26, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done: Regards Tamba52 ( talk) 16:33, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Kalakaua
Request: Remove line running down the arm of Kalakaua's chair and Stevenson's left shoe.-- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 19:43, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done: JBarta ( talk) 23:49, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Characters of Smallville, Sam Witwer, Starkiller
Request: Someone's suggested to me in a peer review for Starkiller that the image could do with a little lightening and possible some sharpening. As I have no idea how to do any of that kind of thing myself, I hope someone more savvy can help. Just in case it's of any use, here's the original non-cropped image. – Harry Blue5 ( talk • contribs) 18:44, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Done: Hopefully it looks ok now. Regards, Fallschirmjäger ✉ 16:56, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): - None
Request: Came across this because it had a bad file name, and before moving it to Commons it would be appreciated the window frame could be cropped out, the picture rotated slightly, and if there are any other fixes a graphist could make, this would be great. Acather96 ( talk) 06:21, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
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Article(s): Pecos National Historical Park (if we can fix it)
Request: Nice photo, with an unfortunate yellow triangle at upper left, presumably a display-case reflection. Help? TIA, Pete Tillman ( talk) 20:17, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Would you like the bowl isolated from the case like this? --> ( before/ after)
Article(s): South African Class 3B 4-8-2
Request: Please remove watermark. André Kritzinger ( talk) 01:29, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done:Regards -- Tamba52 ( talk) 07:56, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Meningitis
Request: Please remove moiré, thank you. Polarlys ( talk) 11:19, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
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Article(s): David Kawananakoa
Request: Clean and improve the background, and suit if possible; it's light at some areas and dark at some. Remove weird whitish spot around his mustache (the current pic makes it look as if he had bread crumbs stuck in his beard).-- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 02:26, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
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Article(s): Molly C. Quinn
Request: The flesh tones in this photo seem to be purply and I was wondering if they could be corrected or adjusted. Thanks in advance! — Fourthords | =/\= | 05:19, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Request taken by MissMJ.
Aww, Molly! She's so adorable on Castle. I'll see what I can do. - MissMJ ( talk) 23:11, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Hidatsa people
Request: remove border... Kintetsubuffalo ( talk) 15:06, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Done That was an unusually faint border. I cropped it a little tighter than just the border. JBarta ( talk) 19:27, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
Article(s): Kaiulani
Request: Remove glare and improve in anyway.--- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 03:35, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
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