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Restoration:

Using sophisticated software and a sufficient supply of patience, each digital image was laboriously corrected in colour, contrast, and blemishes (cracked glass, flaked colours, image degradation).

Considerable work was done to restore these images to as close-to-original state. For example, the fragmented floor in this untreated image was digitally replaced with a floor from an image of a real Doukhobor dwelling of the era. Move your mouse over the image to see an 'After' restoration of this image. (As a point of interest, restoring this particular image took over 50 hours to complete!)


The actual process of digital restoration would be detailed in the proposed DVD that the Museum hopes to develop - see Calendar/DVD, page 2 for further details.

  

  Finally, after the digital images were restored, the images were then printed in-house on a wide-format printer, cut and trimmed to size, and then subsequently mounted by our curator in appropriately sized frames.

The final framed images were placed in chronological order in the Museum, 'telling a story' of the Doukhobors in Canada in a unique, one-of-a-kind exhibit.		  
 
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