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[flamingo_monochrome]

Hello all, I've got an odd issue with a photo file that I dont know what to do about.

Its like this. The photo is of myself and a friend that was taken during a gathering a while back, and the friend sent it to me several days after. However, she didn't like the way her mouth looked, so as a compromise she used MS paint to draw a bright pink smile over it, which annoyed me to no end, and still does to this day, and so i was always trying to find a way to un-edit it.

The interesting part is (as i found out earlier today), if you look at the thumbnail view of the file itself, the bright pink edit doesnt show, and you can see the original photo. By my reasoning, one should therefore be able to find wherever THAT image is, and, figuratively speaking, yank it out.

I'd be happy to email the file to anyone if they want to tweak it around.

 

[Steep]

The thumbnail is a seperate file to the main image and would not have been changed when the original was, that's not to say that the original cannot be shopped to give her a better looking mouth.

 

[flamingo_monochrome]

The aim wasnt to edit the image; what i want to do is to restore the original image, and i thought that since the thumbnail seems in some way to be accessing the original, i could get it from wherever that was, within the file.

 

[Steep]

No m8, as I said above the thumbnail is a seperate image in it's own right, the 'original' image you are looking for is gone.

 

[dougdarter]

Hello all, I've got an odd issue with a photo file that I dont know what to do about.

Its like this. The photo is of myself and a friend that was taken during a gathering a while back, and the friend sent it to me several days after. However, she didn't like the way her mouth looked, so as a compromise she used MS paint to draw a bright pink smile over it, which annoyed me to no end, and still does to this day, and so i was always trying to find a way to un-edit it.

The interesting part is (as i found out earlier today), if you look at the thumbnail view of the file itself, the bright pink edit doesnt show, and you can see the original photo. By my reasoning, one should therefore be able to find wherever THAT image is, and, figuratively speaking, yank it out.

I'd be happy to email the file to anyone if they want to tweak it around.

Email the image(es) to me, and I'll have a look.

dougdarter@aol.com

 

[apodo]

The thumbnail is probably embedded in the EXIF and if so can be extracted with ExifTool. Though depending on how small it is it may not be of much help.

Michael.