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[Donna]

In an effort to help the residents of Pass Christian, MS in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, photojournalist Becky Sell and photo editor Dave Ellis have embarked on a mission to recover the photos and memories that would be lost to the storm.
Operation Photo Rescue is helping families restore photo's damaged in Katrina.

If you can donate your services and able to help out read more: Anyone wishing to volunteer to send an email to OPRvolunteer[@]gmail.com

[Bryn]

I read the website and it isn't clear whether you have to have qualifications and if you can do retouches for them if your not living in the US.

[Donna]

Bryn, on May 5 2006, 08:09 PM, said:

I read the website and it isn't clear whether you have to have qualifications and if you can do retouches for them if your not living in the US.

You need to know how to restore photo's correctly and you don't need to live in the US as they are sent via email to you. To restore photo's to original is quite a process am sure Faken can verify this as he's done a few.

So here's how to get involved:
- Restorations: taking photographs to retouch using Photoshop.
- Copy work: we copy photographs on location as mailing the originals could damage them. We are always in need of photographers to travel to do the copy work, or copy in their home area if they are somewhere affected. We can help with places to stay/work and getting the information out so people know.
- Donations: we are an official non-profit organization and need all the help we can to keep up and running.

• If interested in volunteering, e-mail oprvolunteer@gmail.com with how you want to help, the level of difficulty you are able to take (the different levels can be found on our blog ) if volunteering for restorations. For other questions not volunteer related, direct to operationphotorescue@gmail.com or info@operationphotorescue.com

• What you can expect if volunteering for restorations:
- In time, you will receive photographs via e-mail. We know ftp is a great source as well and are working on establishing that as another system. Once you have your photo, restore it to the best of your ability without damaging the integrity of the original photograph (ex: please do not replace backgrounds, smiles, eyes, etc. with something totally different). E-mail it back to us in full file-size, and if willing, you will receive another photograph to restore.

Main site:
http://www.operationphotorescue.com/

Going to contact Dave Ellis later today and see if he'll pop over here and explain it a little more.

[Davey]

sounds like a great idea/quest.... wish i could help but never really tried to do any restoration before using photoshop... of any kind