[Gimp-user] restoring faded transparencies

[Doug]

geoff wrote:
>> It would be useful if the slider range could be altered, especially to
>> be able to go below 0.7. I am not a programmer and, therefore, I do not
>> know if this is possible or how complicated it is but, if it can be
>> done, I would love to be able to try the effect.
>>
>> Norman
>>
>>
>>     
> The "degree of restoration" is designed to be 1.0 according to the
> mathematics in my technical notes but I have found that for some images the
> resulting colours become a bit too garish, hence the slider.  I had not
> expected values below 0.7 would be useful but the default range can be changed
> in the line  (PF_SLIDER, "contrast", "Degree of Restoration",  1.0, (0.7, 1.2,
> 0.1) ), near the end of the file.
>
> My apolgies to Doug - I got my email address wrong (I never use this one), it
> is geoxff at lionhyouse.pzlus.com (delete the xyz)
>
> I will look at your examples and also find out why some crash the program; I
> have not had this.
>   
Geoff, if you like, I can send on on example of a slide crashing the 
plugin for a restoration setting of 1.2

Doug