Originally posted by Dave
Is it possible to do that in something like Photoshop without losing the quality of detail in the actual photo?
In this case the main problem was that the photo was taken at an angle and so one wing was foreshortened and the circle was distorted. It was a fairly simple matter to level the decal and then get the circle and one wing back to normal perspective. To restore the symmetrical balance though, I copied one wing, flipped it and pasted it back in.
On other decals, like the Integral one I reconstructed, the decals are so degraded that the only thing you can do it use them as a sort of template and "rebuild" (essentially "redraw") on top of them. This is obviously less satisfactory from the historian's perspective. Typically, each part of the decal has to be reconstructed separately and then the parts reassembled and the color added. If I were more skilled with photoshop I might be able to reintroduce some "weathering" to simulate the look of the original photo.
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